Cross references

Hosea 4:12

My people consult their wooden idols,

and their divining rods inform them.

For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray

and they have played the harlot against their God.

Hosea 4:12 BSB

Hosea 4:12 has 18 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 2:27 (6 votes) and Hosea 5:4 (5 votes). 30 other verses point back to it. It links with 19 other books, from Exodus 34 to 1 John 4.

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Which verses does Hosea 4:12 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Yet in the time of trouble, they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’

  2. Hosea 5:45 votes

    Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.

  3. Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.”

  4. These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.

  5. And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.

  6. They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand. And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?” …

  7. They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.’

  8. then I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.

  9. but you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab prostituted itself. You have also killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you.

  10. Those far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.

  11. Hosea 9:12 votes
  12. Micah 2:112 votes

Which verses point to Hosea 4:12?

The 10 strongest of 30.