Hosea 4

Hosea 4
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4Q166 "The Hosea Commentary Scroll", late first century B.C.
Book	Book of Hosea
Bible part	Old Testament
Order in the Bible part	28
Category	Nevi'im

Hosea 4 is the fourth chapter of the Book of Hosea in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Hosea son of Beeri. In this chapter he reproves the people and priests for their sins in the interregnum which followed Jeroboam's death; hence there is no mention of the king or his family; and in Hosea 4:2 bloodshed and other evils usual in a civil war are specified. It is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

NKJV groups this chapter into:

(2) The LXX., understands it in the sense of "likeness:" "My people are like (ὡμοιώθη) as if they had no knowledge." So Isaiah mourns in the same words, "therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge" Isaiah 5:13.