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NASB | Hosea 4:12 My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner's wand informs them; For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray, And they have played the harlot, departing from their God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hosea 4:12 My people consult their [lifeless] wooden idol, and their [diviner's] wand gives them oracles. For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray [morally and spiritually], And they have played the prostitute, withdrawing themselves from their God. |
Bible Question: Then it must be divination like the Philistines practiced? Like Dagon and Baalzebub Judges 16:23?Were Phœnicians, opposed to Monotheism ? How? |
Bible Answer: What does opposition to monotheism have to do with anything? Opposition to the truth is opposition to the Lord God of the Bible, no matter what it is called. Opposition to His will is sin, no matter what its origins. Opposition to the orthodoxy and orthopraxy of His eternal, invisible church is heresy and apostacy, no matter who does the twisting of Scriptures. Is this heading off into one of those Russelistic arguments? Been there... done that. |