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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hosea 4:14

Jehovah threatens to visit no punishment on the women for their licentiousness, because they are more sinned against than sinning.

Sacrifice with harlots. — Referring to the sensuality of the religious rites, as represented by the women (q’dçshôth) who dedicated themselves to these impurities.

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See also Hosea 4:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 4:14. _I WILL NOT PUNISH_] Why should you be stricken any more; ye will revolt more and more. When God, in judgment, removes his judgments, the case of that people is desperate. While ther...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WILL NOT PUNISH YOUR DAUGHTERS - God threatens, as the severest woe, that He will not punish their sins with the correction of a Father in this present life, but will leave the sinners, unheeded, to...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    II. THE MESSAGE OF EXPOSTULATION, JUDGMENT, AND MERCY CHAPTER 4 The Lord's Controversy with His People _ 1. The condition of the people (Hosea 4:1) _ 2. The loss of their priestly relation (Hosea 4...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE UTTER CORRUPTION OF THE NATION TRACED TO IRRELIGION. (The text of Hosea 4:15 is hopelessly corrupt. Marti regards Hosea 4:3 as an insertion and Hosea 4:5_ a_ as foreign to their present context.)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DAUGHTERS: who became Temple-women. See next verse. THEMSELVES. [the men] themselves. SEPARATED. secluded. HARLOTS. Hebrew. _kedeshah =_ the Temple-women, consecrated to the unclean "worship" of the...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The precedence in guilt belongs to the elders who set so wicked an example. _themselves are separated with_ Rather, THEY THEMSELVES GO ASIDE WITH. A change of person, instead of -ye yourselves." _har...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Thus the priests have led the way, and the people follow. They have lost the spiritual faculty; a wild impulse to the most sensual idolatry has carried them away....

  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    4:14 daughters-in-law (d-14) Or 'brides,' as Jeremiah 2:32 . ruin. (e-41) Or 'shall fall,' as Proverbs 10:8 ,Proverbs 10:10 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    CONDEMNATION OF THE PRIESTHOOD An arraignment against Israel as a whole, because of all manner of wickedness against God and man. Prophet and priest, who ought to have taught them better, are only to...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹֽא ־אֶפְקֹ֨וד עַל ־בְּנֹותֵיכֶ֜ם כִּ֣י תִזְנֶ֗ינָה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Visit. This is the most dreadful of God's judgments. He permits those who offend him to receive discontent from their own families. --- Effeminate, like the Galli, &c., (St. Jerome) and votaries of P...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The first verse in this paragraph is a very striking scripture. In some of our old Bibles the margin hath it in yet stronger terms; they eat up the excrement of my people, meaning that which is most t...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    He then who worships not God, shall have at home an adulterous wife, and filthy strumpets as his daughters, boldly playing the wanton, and he shall have also adulterous daughters-in-law: not that the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 AND 5. In chapter 4 we see that the prophet addresses the whole people together. In Verse 15 (Hosea 4:15) he distinguishes Judah from Israel, warning the fo...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I WILL NOT PUNISH YOUR DAUGHTERS WHEN THEY COMMIT WHOREDOMS, NOR YOUR SPOUSES WHEN THEY COMMIT ADULTERY,.... Either not punish them at all, so that they shall go on in sin, and to a greater degree, to...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I will not punish your daughters_, &c. I will suffer your daughters to go on in their iniquity, and to fall from one degree of wickedness to another. _For themselves_ That is, for yourselves; _are se...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SECOND PART OF THE ACCUSATION...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery, as just set forth; FOR THEMSELVES, the fathers and husbands, ARE SEPARATED WITH WHORES, going as...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    I WILL NOT: Or, shall I not? etc. SHALL FALL: Or, be punished...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-19 The people consulted images, and not the Divine word. This would lead to disorder and sin. Thus men prepare scourges for themselves, and vice is spread through a people. Let not Judah come near...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 6:16; 1 Kings 14:23; 1 Kings 14:24; 1 Kings 15:12;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Nor your spouses — I will give them up to their own hearts. For themselves — The husband and fathers are examples to their wives and daughters. Therefore the people — The sottish ignorant people, that...

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