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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:
Haven't been there ain't going..Didn't the Phœnicians invent letters that were universally asserted by the Greeks and Romans to have been communicated by the Phœnicians to the Greeks. And for example, it sanctioned the dreadful superstition of burning children as sacrifices to a Phœnician god. Again, parts of the Phœnician religion, especially the worship of Astarte, tended to encourage dissoluteness in the relations of the sexes, and even to sanctify impurities of the most abominable description. What effect did this have on the Jewish people? |
Bible Answer: What does the invention of letters have to do with sacrifices to a god? Where did you get your info on Astarte? |