Hosea 4:14

The precedence in guilt belongs to the elders who set so wicked an example.

themselves are separated with Rather, they themselves go aside with. A change of person, instead of -ye yourselves."

harlots Rather, consecrated harlots, i.e. women who dedicate themselves, or are dedicated by others, to the service of Ashérah or of Ashtoreth, and give up their chastity in honour of the goddess. Mesha, king of Moab, says that, when he took Nebo from the Israelites, he slew the men, but spared the women in order to devote them to Ashtar-Chemosh (Moabite inscription, lines 16, 17).

sacrifice Probably the reference is partly to the feast which followed the sacrifice (Exodus 32:6).

shall fall Rather, shall be dashed to the ground.