Hosea 4:17

American Standard Version (1901)

Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 81:12 : 12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.
  • Hos 4:4 : 4 Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
  • Hos 13:2 : 2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
  • Matt 15:14 : 14 Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.
  • Rev 22:11 : 11 He that is unrighteous, let him do unrighteousness still: and he that is filthy, let him be made filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him do righteousness still: and he that is holy, let him be made holy still.
  • Hos 11:2 : 2 The more [the prophets] called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
  • Hos 12:1 : 1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

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  • Hos 4:15-16
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    15Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, As Jehovah liveth.

    16For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.

  • Hos 5:3-6
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    3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast played the harlot, Israel is defiled.

    4Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not Jehovah.

    5And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them.

    6They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah; but they shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from them.

  • Hos 8:9
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    9For they are gone up to Assyria, [like] a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

  • Ezek 14:4-6
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    4Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Every man of the house of Israel that taketh his idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I Jehovah will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;

    5that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

    6Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Return ye, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

  • Hos 5:11-12
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    11Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after [man's] command.

    12Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

  • Hos 7:8
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    8Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

  • Hos 8:11
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    11Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been unto him for sinning.

  • Hos 4:18
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    18Their drink is become sour; they play the harlot continually; her rulers dearly love shame.

  • Hos 7:10-11
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    10And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: yet they have not returned unto Jehovah their God, nor sought him, for all this.

    11And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding: they call unto Egypt, they go to Assyria.

  • Hos 12:14
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    14Ephraim hath provoked to anger most bitterly: therefore shall his blood be left upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.

  • Hos 13:1-2
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    1When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.

    2And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

  • Hos 5:9
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    9Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

  • Hos 14:8
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    8Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will regard him: I am like a green fir-tree; from me is thy fruit found.

  • Hos 9:16-17
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    16Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb.

    17My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

  • Hos 6:10
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    10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is [found] in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

  • Hos 12:1
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    1Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

  • Hos 8:5-6
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    5He hath cast off thy calf, O Samaria; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

    6For from Israel is even this; the workman made it, and it is no God; yea, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

  • Hos 10:1-2
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    1Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to the goodness of their land they have made goodly [ pillars.

    2Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he will smite their altars, he will destroy their pillars.

  • Hos 11:12
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    12Ephraim compasseth me about with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the Holy One.

  • Jer 5:7
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    7How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses.

  • Hos 10:11
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    11And Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, that loveth to tread out [the grain] ; but I have passed over upon her fair neck: I will set a rider on Ephraim; Judah shall plow, Jacob shall break his clods.

  • Hos 11:2
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    2The more [the prophets] called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

  • Hos 8:3
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    3Israel hath cast off that which is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

  • Jer 14:10
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    10Thus saith Jehovah unto this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Jehovah doth not accept them; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

  • Isa 31:6-7
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    6Turn ye unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

    7For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

  • Jer 50:38
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    38A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.

  • Ezek 23:30
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    30These things shall be done unto thee, for that thou hast played the harlot after the nations, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

  • Hos 10:5-6
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    5The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven; for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced over it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

    6It also shall be carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

  • Jer 2:19-20
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    19Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

    20For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.

  • Hos 13:12
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    12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up in store.

  • Hos 5:14
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    14For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.

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    10But the Levites that went far from me, when Israel went astray, that went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.

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    10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

  • Isa 11:13
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    13The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and they that vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

  • Hos 4:10
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    10And they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall play the harlot, and shall not increase; because they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.