Hosea 4:13 meaning and explanation
They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.
Hosea 4:13, Berean Standard Bible
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God speaks through Hosea, indicting Israel for covenant unfaithfulness. The people have turned from the LORD to the fertility worship of Canaan, offering sacrifices at high places and under leafy trees, whose shade was thought to mark the presence of a deity.
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