 | Marco Polo - 1903 - 828 pàgines
...Naiman ; the officers of that tribe seized and killed him. (Schmidt, 87, 383 ; Erdmann, 297 ; GaiMl, p. 10.) NOTE 2. — A Tartar divination by twigs,...people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff dcclarcth unto them," are thus explained by Theophylaclus : " They stuck up a couple of slicks, whilst... | |
 | Cora Linn Morrison Daniels - 1903 - 592 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... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1903 - 500 pàgines
...marier ont pendant le cours de l'ann6e.— C.,AB RABDOMANCY. (/Ja/36o«, rod : punneia, divination.) My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them. — Hosea, iv. 12. Cf. She has taken the crooked stick after all. — (Proverb.) ie accepted the worst... | |
 | Ormonde Maddock Dalton - 1905 - 218 pàgines
...fifteen (among the Parsees at seven or ten), and might only be removed during sleep. 1 xxi. 21 ; cf. Hosea iv. 12 : ' My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them.' * Hovelacque, p. 424. s Rhode, as above, p. 477. The Persian magus wore a hood or cap (kyrbasia) concealing... | |
 | John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt, Henry Ellis - 1905 - 360 pàgines
...prophecy of Ezekiel. Hosea, too, reproaches the Jews as bemg infected with the like superstition : My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them." AVe read in the Gentleman's Magazine for November 1751 : " So early as Agricola the divining rod was... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne, Julius August Brewer - 1910 - 624 pàgines
...have left off to take heed to the LORD. 11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. 12 ^f 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... | |
 | Joel Nelson Eno - 1911 - 20 pàgines
...civilization, comfort, and pre-eminently to religion. "My people perish for lack of knowledge. . . . My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them. . . . They sacrifice . . . with harlots; therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall."... | |
 | 1916 - 670 pàgines
...especially a dousing- or divining-rod. It is true, AV renders Hos. 4:12a (cf. JBL 35, 185/6, also 180): My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them, but the meaning of this line, at the end of which we must supply qasm, oracle, is : My people consult... | |
 | Ernest Boys - 1882 - 600 pàgines
...of wandering, if by faith we have accepted Him as our substitute, whom God accepted as such. VIII. " My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them" (Hos. iv. 12). "Is thy Counsellor perished ? " (Mic. iv. 9 ; Is. ix. 6). Wherefore, when thou wast... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1922 - 570 pàgines
...any more? ye will revolt more and more : the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. •Hos. iv. 12. My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declarcth unto them. Rev. xix. in. And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See... | |
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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. 
