Hosea 9:1 meaning and explanation
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
Hosea 9:1, Berean Standard Bible
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The prophet speaks to the northern kingdom of Israel in the eighth century BC, addressing a people who still expected prosperity and festivity. Threshing floors were places of harvest joy, but also of Canaanite fertility rites, and Hosea charges Israel with prostituting herself to other gods there.
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