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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 4:14 - 4:14
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I will not punish ... daughters - I will visit with the heaviest punishments “not” the unchaste “daughters and spouses,” but the fathers and husbands; for it is these who “themselves” have set the bad example, so that as compared with the punishment of the latter, that of the former shall seem as nothing [Munster].
separated with whores - withdrawn from the assembly of worshippers to some receptacle of impurity for carnal connection with whores.
sacrifice with harlots - They commit lewdness with women who devote their persons to be violated in honor of Astarte. (So the Hebrew for “harlots” means, as distinguished from “whores”). Compare Num 25:1-3; and the prohibition, Deu 23:18.
not understand - (Isa 44:18; Isa 45:20).
shall fall - shall be cast down.