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New Living Translation
Hosea 4:17
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Ephraim is attached to idols;leave him alone!
Efrayim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!
Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone.
Ephraim is allied with idols; Leave him alone.
The Israelites have chosen to worship idols, so leave them alone.
Ephraim is joined to idols, So let him alone [to suffer the consequences].
Ephraim is ioyned to idoles: let him alone.
Ephraim is joined to idols; Let him alone.
Ephraim is joined to idols;Let him alone.
Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!
You people of Israel are charmed by idols. Leave them alone!
Efrayim is joined to idols; let him alone!
—Ephraim is joined to idols: leave him alone.
"Ephraim has joined his idols, so leave him alone.
Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.
The people of Israel are under the spell of idols. Let them go their own way.
Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.
Ephraim is joined to idols. Let him alone.
Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.
Ephraim is joined to false gods; let him be.
Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.
Ephraim is ioyned to idoles: let him alone.
Ephraim [is become] partaker of idols, let hym alone.
Ephraim, joined with idols, has laid stumbling-blocks in his own way.
Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.
Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!
Effraym is the partener of idols, leeue thou him;
Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.
Ephraim [is] joined to idols: let him alone.
Ephraim has attached himself to idols; Do not go near him!
"Ephraim is joined to idols, Let him alone.
Ephraim is joined to false gods. Let him alone.
Ephraim is joined to idols— let him alone.
Mated with idols, is Ephraim, let him alone.
Ephraim is a partaker with idols, let him alone.
E'phraim is joined to idols, let him alone.
Joined to idols [is] Ephraim, let him alone.
And where as Ephraim is become partaker of Idols, wel, let him go.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Ephraim: Hosea 11:2, Hosea 12:1, Hosea 13:2
let: Hosea 4:4, Psalms 81:12, Matthew 15:14, Revelation 22:11
Reciprocal: Exodus 14:12 - Let us alone 1 Kings 11:33 - they have forsaken Ezekiel 3:26 - and shalt Ezekiel 20:39 - Go ye Hosea 4:14 - punish Hosea 5:3 - thou Hosea 6:10 - there Hosea 7:1 - the iniquity Matthew 16:4 - And he Mark 8:13 - General Acts 7:42 - and gave Acts 14:16 - suffered Romans 1:24 - God 1 Corinthians 14:38 - General
Cross-References
Abel also brought a gift—the best portions of the firstborn lambs from his flock. The Lord accepted Abel and his gift,
Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has swallowed your brother's blood.
When Jared was 162 years old, he became the father of Enoch.
After the birth of Methuselah, Enoch lived in close fellowship with God for another 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Then they said, "Come, let's build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world."
During his lifetime, Absalom had built a monument to himself in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to carry on my name." He named the monument after himself, and it is known as Absalom's Monument to this day.
The grave is their eternal home, where they will stay forever. They may name their estates after themselves,
As he looked out across the city, he said, ‘Look at this great city of Babylon! By my own mighty power, I have built this beautiful city as my royal residence to display my majestic splendor.'
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Ephraim is joined to idols,.... That is, the ten tribes of Israel, frequently so called after their separation from the rest, because that Jeroboam, by whom the revolt was made, was of that tribe; and because that tribe was the principal of them, and Samaria, the metropolis of their kingdom, was in it: and so the Targum here renders it,
"the house of Israel are joined to idols;''
to the calves at Dan and Bethel; to Baal, and other idols, they worshipped: the phrase expresses their strong affection for them, their constant worship of them, and their obstinate persisting therein, and the difficulty there was of bringing them off of it; they cleaved to their idols, were glued, and as it were wedded unto them, and there was no separating of them; as men are, who are addicted to the lusts of the flesh, to the mammon of unrighteousness, or to their own self-righteousness, or to any idol they set up in their hearts as such: hence it follows,
let them alone: which are either the words of the Lord to the prophet, enjoining him to prophesy no more to them; to reprove them no more for their sins, since it was all to no purpose, there was no reclaiming them, so Jarchi and Kimchi; and therefore let them alone, let them go on in their sins, and in their errors, and in their superstition and idolatry; see Ezekiel 3:26. God was determined to let them alone himself, and therefore bids his prophet to do so likewise: and sad is the case with men when he lets them alone, and will not disturb their consciences any more by jogs and convictions, but gives them up to a seared conscience, to hardness of heart, and to their own lusts; when he will not hedge up their way with thorns, or distress them with afflictive providences, and hinder them from going on in a course of sin and wickedness; nor give them restraining grace, but suffer them to go on in the broad road, till they drop into hell; and says of them,
let him that is filthy be filthy still, Revelation 22:11 or else they are the words of the prophet to the men of Judah, to have nothing to do with Israel, since they were such backsliders and idolaters; to have no communion and conversation with them, but let them be alone, and worship alone for them; since what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness, light with darkness, Christ with Belial, a believer with an infidel, or the temple of the living God with idols and idolaters? 2 Corinthians 6:14, some take them to be the words of the prophet to God concerning Israel, approving of his righteous judgments, in threatening to feed them as a lamb in a large place; dismiss him thither, suffer and leave him to feed there. The Targum interprets it of their sin, and not their punishment,
"they have left their worship;''
the service of God.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Ephraim is joined to idols - that is, banded, bound up with them, “associated,” as the word means, with them so as to cleave to them, willing neither to part with nor to be parted from, them. The idols are called by a name, denoting toils; with toil they were fashioned, and, when fashioned, they were a toil and grief.
Let him alone - Literally, give him rest, i. e., from all further expostulations, which he will not hear. It is an abandonment of Israel for the time, as in the prophet Ezekiel, “As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God, go ye, serve ye every one his idols” Ezekiel 20:39. Sinners often long not to be tormented by conscience or by God’s warnings. To be left so, is to be abandoned by God, as one whose case is desperate. God will not, while there is hope, leave a man to sleep in sin; for so the numbness of the soul increases, until, like those who fall asleep amid extreme cold of the body, it never awakes.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 4:17. Ephraim — The ten tribes.
Is joined to idols — Is become incorporated with false gods.
Let him alone. — They are irreclaimable, leave them to the consequences of their vicious conduct.
