Hosea 4:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shade thereof is good. Therefore your daughters shall commit harlotry, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, where the shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit wredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    They sacrifice{H2076} upon the tops{H7218} of the mountains,{H2022} and burn incense{H6999} upon the hills,{H1389} under oaks{H437} and poplars{H3839} and terebinths,{H424} because the shadow{H6738} thereof is good:{H2896} therefore your daughters{H1323} play the harlot,{H2181} and your brides{H3618} commit adultery.{H5003}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    They sacrifice{H2076}{(H8762)} upon the tops{H7218} of the mountains{H2022}, and burn incense{H6999}{(H8762)} upon the hills{H1389}, under oaks{H437} and poplars{H3839} and elms{H424}, because the shadow{H6738} thereof is good{H2896}: therefore your daughters{H1323} shall commit whoredom{H2181}{(H8799)}, and your spouses{H3618} shall commit adultery{H5003}{(H8762)}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    They make sacrifice vpon the hie mountaynes, & burne their incense vpon the hilles, yee amonge the okes, groues & bu?shes, for there are good shadowes. Therfore yor doughters are become harlottes, and youre spouses haue broke their wedlocke

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    They sacrifice vpon the toppes of ye mountaines, and burne incense vpon the hilles vnder the okes, and the poplar tree, and the elme, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall be harlots, and your spouses shall be whores.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    They make sacrifices vpon the tops of the mountaines, and burne their incense vpon the hilles, yea vnder the okes, poplars, and elmes, for there are good shadowes: therfore your daughters are become harlots, and your spouses haue broken their wedlocke.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof [is] good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, And burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, Because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, And your brides commit adultery.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    On tops of the mountains they do sacrifice, And on the hills they make perfume, Under oak, and poplar, and terebinth, For good `is' its shade.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    They sacrifice on the mountaintops, and burn offerings on the hills; they sacrifice under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is so pleasant. As a result, your daughters have become cult prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery!

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 1:29 : 29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.
  • Jer 3:6 : 6 The LORD also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.
  • Ezek 6:13 : 13 Then shall you know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered sweet aroma to all their idols.
  • Amos 7:17 : 17 Therefore thus says the LORD; Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you shall die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity from his land.
  • Rom 1:23-28 : 23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. 24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves, 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions: for even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 And likewise the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another; men with men working what is shameful, and receiving in themselves that penalty of their error which was fitting. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
  • Ezek 16:16 : 16 And of your garments you took, and decked your high places with different colors, and played the harlot thereupon; such things shall not come, nor shall it be so.
  • Ezek 16:25 : 25 You have built your high place at every head of the way, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have opened your feet to everyone that passed by, and multiplied your whoredoms.
  • Ezek 20:28-29 : 28 For when I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provoking of their offering: there also they made their sweet savor, and poured out there their drink offerings. 29 Then I said to them, What is the high place to which you go? And its name is called Bamah to this day.
  • Hos 2:13 : 13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals, when she burned incense to them, and she adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD.
  • Hos 11:2 : 2 As they were called, so they went from them: they sacrificed to Baal, and burned incense to carved images.
  • Jer 3:13 : 13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says the LORD.
  • 2 Sam 12:10-12 : 10 Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house; because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. 11 Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own house, and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For you did it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
  • Job 31:9-9 : 9 If my heart has been deceived by a woman, or if I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door; 10 Then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
  • Isa 57:5 : 5 Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the cliffs of the rocks?
  • Isa 57:7 : 7 On a lofty and high mountain you have set your bed; even there you went up to offer sacrifice.
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wandered, playing the harlot.

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    83%

    14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your spouses when they commit adultery, for the men themselves are separated with harlots, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. Therefore, the people who do not understand shall fall.

    15 Though you, Israel, play the harlot, do not let Judah offend; do not come to Gilgal, nor go up to Bethaven, nor swear, 'As the LORD lives.'

  • Hos 4:12
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    12 My people ask counsel from their wooden idols, and their staff declares to them, for the spirit of harlotry has caused them to err, and they have gone astray under their God.

  • Isa 57:5
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    5 Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the cliffs of the rocks?

  • Jer 17:2-3
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    76%

    2 While their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

    3 O my mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures to the spoil, and your high places for sin, throughout all your borders.

  • Jer 5:7
    76%

    7 How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

  • Exod 34:15-16
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    76%

    15 Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you, and you eat his sacrifice.

    16 And you take their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods, and make your sons go whoring after their gods.

  • 1 Kgs 14:23
    76%

    23 For they also built for themselves high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-11
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    10 They set up images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.

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  • Jer 2:20
    75%

    20 For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wandered, playing the harlot.

  • Ezek 23:37
    75%

    37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire, to devour them.

  • Jer 3:6
    75%

    6 The LORD also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.

  • Jer 3:2
    74%

    2 Lift up your eyes to the high places and see where you have not been violated. On the roads you have sat for them, like an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your whoredoms and your wickedness.

  • Jer 3:9
    74%

    9 And it came to pass through the frivolity of her whoredom, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
    73%

    4 He also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • Hos 5:4
    73%

    4 They will not direct their deeds to turn to their God: for the spirit of prostitution is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

  • Jer 11:15
    73%

    15 What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.

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    11 Moreover, he made high places in the mountains of Judah and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit idolatry and influenced Judah to sin.

  • Ezek 16:20
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    20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Is this of your whoredoms a small matter,

  • Isa 57:7-8
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    7 On a lofty and high mountain you have set your bed; even there you went up to offer sacrifice.

    8 Behind the doors and the posts you have set up your remembrance; for you have revealed yourself to another than me, and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed and made a covenant with them; you loved their bed where you saw it.

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    13 For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.

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    13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

  • Ezek 20:28
    72%

    28 For when I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provoking of their offering: there also they made their sweet savor, and poured out there their drink offerings.

  • 2 Kgs 16:4
    72%

    4 And he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • Hos 13:2
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    2 And now they sin more and more, and have made molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

  • Ezek 22:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10 In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness: in you they have humbled her who was set apart for impurity.

    11 One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
    72%

    17 They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

  • Jer 7:18
    72%

    18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

  • Ezek 23:30
    72%

    30 I will do these things to you, because you have gone a whoring after the heathen, and because you are polluted with their idols.

  • Deut 12:31
    71%

    31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • Ezek 6:13
    71%

    13 Then shall you know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered sweet aroma to all their idols.

  • Ezek 16:36
    71%

    36 Thus says the Lord GOD; Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your whoredoms with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your children, which you gave to them:

  • Ezek 20:30
    71%

    30 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; Are you polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit you harlotry after their abominations?

  • Ezek 16:25
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    25 You have built your high place at every head of the way, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have opened your feet to everyone that passed by, and multiplied your whoredoms.

  • Ezek 16:16
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    16 And of your garments you took, and decked your high places with different colors, and played the harlot thereupon; such things shall not come, nor shall it be so.

  • Mal 2:11
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    11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

  • Nah 3:4
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    4 Because of the multitude of the harlotries of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations through her harlotries, and families through her sorceries.

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    27 I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the lewdness of your whoredom, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! Will you not be made clean? When shall it once be?

  • Jer 44:9
    71%

    9 Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • Hos 4:18
    71%

    18 Their drink is sour; they have committed harlotry continually; her rulers dearly love dishonor.

  • Lev 19:29
    71%

    29 Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to become a whore; lest the land become full of whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

  • Isa 1:29
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    29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

  • Ezek 23:44
    71%

    44 Yet they went in to her, as they go in to a woman that plays the harlot: so they went in to Aholah and to Aholibah, the lewd women.

  • Judg 3:6
    70%

    6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

  • Num 25:1
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    1 And Israel stayed in Shittim, and the people began to commit immorality with the daughters of Moab.