 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 460 pages
...expect a rod from that hazel; the poplar was the shade of idolatry, as God complains, " They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars," Hosea iv. 1 3 : and no doubt, said my friend, but you will find rods from them. The chesnut is an emblem... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pages
...in the leading passage, which occurs in Hosea. "They" (the idolaters), says the prophet, " sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks, and libneh, and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good " (iv. 13). Whatever place the abele may... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 pages
...whoredoms have caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God : they sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks, &c. Ephraim is joined to idols ; let him alone. — Hosea iv. 12, 13. 17. Of their silver and their... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...whoredoms hare caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God : they sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks, &c. Ephraiin is joined to idols j let him alone. — Hosea iv. 12, 13. 17. Of their silver and their... | |
 | David Morison - 1838 - 396 pages
...stocks ( at their tree), and their staff (their shooter forth) declareth to them,' 'they sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills ; under oaks (the trees of the irradiator), and poplars (trees of the moon), and elms (Allah, the name of God),... | |
 | William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God : they sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks, &c. Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone. — Hosea iv. 12, 13. 17. Of their silver and their... | |
 | William Huntington - 1845 - 210 pages
...rod from that hazel; the poplar, he said, is the shade of idolatry, as God complains they sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars, Hosea iv. 11, and no doubt, said my friend, but you will find rods from them; the chesnut is an emblem... | |
 | John Kitto - 1854 - 1028 pages
...to have been more particularly alluded to, from its being a tree yielding incense. ' They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under the terebinth and the storax trees, because the shadow thereof is good.'— JFR LIBYA (Ai/)i/a, At/3i/q).... | |
 | Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg - 1854 - 544 pages
...incense." — From what has been remarked, it appears that, in substance, Hos. iv. 13 : " they sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains and burn incense upon the hills" is entirely parallel. The two clauses : " She went after her love,rs" and " she forgat me" both serve... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1855 - 612 pages
...Poplar is, in all probability, the plant referred to by the prophet Hosea, when he says, "They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills under oaks and poplars." The Septuagint renders the latter, " white poplars," and our Abele is a common tree in many of the... | |
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They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good ; therefore your daughters commit whoredom, and your brides commit adultery. 
