 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.  Curious Myths of the Middle Ages - Pagina 32door Sabine Baring-Gould - 2007 - 388 pagina’sGedeeltelijke weergave - Over dit boek
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1865 - 976 pagina’s
...they shall eat, and not have enough: . . . because they have left off to take heed to the Lord. . . . 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... | |
 | John Kitto - 1867 - 482 pagina’s
...Persians and the Greeks ; and seems, from Hosea iv. 12, to have found its way among the Israelites : ' My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them.' This is admitted by Jewish writers, particularly by Maimonides, who, in his treatise on idolatry,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1867 - 606 pagina’s
...had been turned to abuse before the days of the prophet Hosea, who in his prophecy (iv. 12) says, ' My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them.' The divining rod is alluded to by Cicero in his 'Offices' as a mode of divination generally,... | |
 | Henry Cowles - 1867 - 458 pagina’s
..."Ephraim is like a silly dovo without heart " — lacking even natural sagacity to avoid the snare. 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... | |
 | Richard Taylor - 1870 - 786 pagina’s
...similar mode. Ezekiel speaks of divination by a rod or wand, and probably Hosea alludes to the same, " My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them." (Hosea iv. 12.) The pur alluded to in Esther may have resembled it. (Esth. iii. 7.) Each chief... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1871 - 624 pagina’s
...something like the last among the Alans, and (from Tacitus) among the Germans. The words of Hosea (iv. 12), "My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them," are thus explained by Theophylactus : " They stuck up a couple of sticks, whilst murmuring certain... | |
 | 1871 - 966 pagina’s
...because they have left off to take heed to the LORD. "Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. ock for their trespass. JUNE 2i. fHnrnmg. Nehem. I. i. 1 ' I "'HE word them : for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under... | |
 | 1872 - 964 pagina’s
...because they have left off to take heed to the LORD. "Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. them : for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under... | |
 | Charles Hardwick - 1872 - 338 pagina’s
...refers to it, and Hosea denounces the Jews for then- faith in such heathen ceremonies. He exclaims — "My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them." It was practised by the Alani, according to Herodotus, and we have the authority of Tacitus... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1873 - 688 pagina’s
...navigationis, quam Henricus Johannis I. filius, patruus ejus, tentaverat, prosequendas, &c. Btbtmng FROM the remotest period a rod has been regarded as...father-in-law's sheep bear pied and spotted lambs. We find rabdornancy a popular form of divination among the Greeks, and also among the Romans. Cicero in his... | |
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