...children" (4:6). 2. Because of her idolatry: "My people ask counsel of their idols . . . they sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills . . . Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone" (4:12, 13, 17). 3. Because of immorality: "I know...

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...sacramental community and went up into the hills to practice unorthodox rituals and idolatry: "They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills" (Hosea 4:13). The prophets associated these rituals with sexual excesses and with every transgression...

...destroy all ibu places whefeiu the s served their gods upon the high mountains and upon the hills." we find in the sacred records that mountains and "...sacrifice," says Hosea (iv. 13) " upon the tops of tha niomiiain.s, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks, and poplars, and: ebfls." These " high...

...This is what we should expect a priori, and it is also what Hosea actually tells us: "They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under the oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good ; therefore your daughters...