Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
I will not punish . . . daughters—I will visit with the heaviest punishments "not" the unchaste "daughters and spouses," but the fathers and husbands; for it is these who "themselves" have set the bad example, so that as compared with the punishment of the latter, that of the former shall seem as nothing [MUNSTER].
separated with whores—withdrawn from the assembly of worshippers to some receptacle of impurity for carnal connection with whores.
sacrifice with harlots—They commit lewdness with women who devote their persons to be violated in honor of Astarte. (So the Hebrew for "harlots" means, as distinguished from "whores"). Compare Numbers 25:1-3; and the prohibition, Deuteronomy 23:18.
not understand— (Isaiah 44:18; Isaiah 45:20).
shall fall—shall be cast down.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Hosea 4:14:
Hosea 4:18
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