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Hosea 4:12

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My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.

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Verse 12. Staff. It was customary to use this mode of divination, (Ezekiel 21:21) and likewise incense. verse 13.—Oak. These terms are variously rendered as the trees and stones mentioned in Scripture, will probably never be ascertained.

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