 | Thomas Allom - 1843 - 260 pàgines
...direction in which the oracle fell."-)- The Jews were upbraided for a practice not very unlike this — "My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them.":): Oracles were consulted by the Greeks and Romans, and soothsayers, augurs, and attendant priests were... | |
 | Moses Margoliouth - 1843 - 330 pàgines
...divination to hold a stick in the hand, and say, " Shall I go, or shall I not go ?" for it is written, " My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them." Hos. 4. 12. T.) 511. Not to do any kind of conjuration ; for it is written, " There shall not be found... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1845 - 392 pàgines
...shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard ? and how shall they hear without a preacher ? Hosea iv. 12. My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them : for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1849 - 520 pàgines
...prophecy of Ezekiel. Hosea, too, reproaches the Jews as being infected with the like superstition : " My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff' declareth unto them." Chap. iv. 12. Not only the Chaldeans used rods for divination, but almost every nation which has pretended... | |
 | Charles Baker - 1850 - 446 pàgines
...because of their transgression. He exposed their idolatry in worshipping the golden calves, saying, " My people ask counsel at their -stocks, and their staff declareth unto them, they sacrifice upon the -tops of the mountains, and burn -incense upon the hills, 'under oaks and poplars... | |
 | John Kitto - 1851 - 538 pàgines
...have abused it for the purpose of divination, as we may collect from the following passages : — ' My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them.' ' They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks, and poplars,... | |
 | Susan Warner - 1853 - 868 pàgines
...shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase : because lljeg l)0t)e left off to toke heeb to the £orb My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them : for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their... | |
 | Joseph Ennemoser - 1854 - 582 pàgines
...of divination in his commentary on Hosea, chap. vi. 12, where the prophet says, in the name of God, My people ask counsel at their stocks ; and their staff declareth unto them : which passage that father understands of the Grecian Rhabdomancy. The same is met with again in Ezekiel,... | |
 | Joseph Ennemoser - 1854 - 566 pàgines
...of divination in his commentary on Hosea, chap. vi. 12, where the prophet says, in the name of God, My people ask counsel at their stocks; and their staff declareth unto t hem : which passage that father understands of the Grecian Rhabdomancy. The same is met with again... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1855 - 492 pàgines
...xxiii. 4. " Jehovah hath broken the staff — of his shoulder," Isaiah ix. 4 ; xiv. 5 ; Psalm cxxv. 3. " My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them," Hosea iv. 12. " Jehovah doth take away from Jerusalem — the staff of bread, and all the staff of... | |
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My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. 
