 | Anne Pratt - 1855 - 430 pages
...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 countries... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1856 - 678 pages
...lasciviousuess is said to have drawn the Israelites astray; but then it is immediately added, " They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills;" to show that it is spiritual unfaithfulness of which the prophet is speaking. When Christ said " He... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour - 1857 - 126 pages
...a teil-tree [Elah or Terebinth-tree] and an oak" (Allon). So also in Hosea iv. 13, " They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks [Allon], poplars [Libneh or Styrax], and elms [Elah]." The term Oak is used instead of Terebinth, in... | |
 | Pfister - 1857 - 146 pages
...commercial metropolis of Greece. him to the height of Baal. Also, Hosea (iv. 13) says, " They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks, because the shadow thereof is good." And again (1 Kings, xviii. 19), " Now therefore send, and gather... | |
 | Joseph Muenscher - 1865 - 328 pages
...tousness is said to have drawn the Israelites astray; but then it is immediately added ''They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills," to show that it is spiritual unfaithfulness of which the prophet is speaking. When Christ said, "He... | |
 | John Brown - 1866 - 602 pages
...The only other passage in which the word Libneh occurs is in Hosea iv. 13 : ' My people sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and ebns, because the shadow thereof is good.' But the poplar docs not well suit this passage, as its branches... | |
 | William Smith (of Inzievar.) - 1868 - 606 pages
...upon the hills, and under every bushy tree.' In Hos. iv. 13 it is said of Israel, ' they sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks, poplars, and terebinths.' ' I put to death, and make alive : I strike, and heal ; neither is there... | |
 | Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg - 1868 - 540 pages
...incense." — From what has been remarked, it appears that, in substance, Hos. iv. 13, u They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains and burn incense upon the hills," is entirely parallel. The two clauses, " She went after her lovers," and " she forgat Me," both serve... | |
 | Frederic Charles Cook - 1876 - 772 pages
...literally, "under me." We are recalled to the imagery of the first three chapters. 13. They sacrifice 7 And she shall follow after her lovers, b Like the former inhabitants of Canaan (Deut. xii. i), and indeed following a not unnatural impulse,... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1873 - 792 pages
...lasciviousness is said to have drawn the Israelites astray; but then it is immediately added, " They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills;" to show that it is spiritual unfaithfulness of which the prophet is speaking. When Christ said " He... | |
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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. 
