Hosea 4:13 “They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, un…”

Hosea 4:13

They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James 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 whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

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.

Darby Translation

they sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oak and poplar and terebinth, because the shade thereof is good; therefore your daughters play the harlot and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

Young's Literal Translation

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.

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“sacrifice”

Jeremiah 3:6 Isaiah 1:29 Ezekiel 6:13 Isaiah 57:5 Isaiah 57:7 Jeremiah 3:13

Jeremiah 3:6 · BSB

Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.

Isaiah 1:29 · BSB

Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen.

Ezekiel 6:13 · BSB

Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragr…

Isaiah 57:5 · BSB

who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

Isaiah 57:7 · BSB

On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.

Jeremiah 3:13 · BSB

Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.

“therefore”

Amos 7:17 2 Samuel 12:10–12 Romans 1:23–28 Job 31:9 Job 31:10

Amos 7:17 · BSB

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan…

2 Samuel 12:10–12 · BSB

Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

Romans 1:23–28 · BSB

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Job 31:9 · BSB

If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,

Job 31:10 · BSB

then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.

Also

Hosea 2:13 Jeremiah 2:20 Hosea 11:2

Hosea 2:13 · BSB

I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 2:20 · BSB

“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.

Hosea 11:2 · BSB

But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.

14I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.

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