Hosea 4:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

daughters: who became Temple-women. See next verse.

themselves. [the men] themselves.

separated. secluded.

harlots. Hebrew. kedeshah = the Temple-women, consecrated to the unclean "worship" of the Canaanites, by which the foulest corruption became. holy duty. Reference to Pentateuch. Found only here and Genesis 38:21; Genesis 38:22, and Deuteronomy 23:17. App-92.

Hosea 4:14

14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.