Hosea 12:1
\11:12\The deceit of Ephraim and the false words of Israel are about me on every side. ...
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2 Kings 15:19In his day, Pul, the king of Assyria, came up against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that he might let him keep the kingdom.
2 Chronicles 21:11And more than this, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, teaching the people of Jerusalem to go after false gods, and guiding Judah away from the true way.
Psalms 78:36But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;
Jeremiah 22:22All the keepers of your sheep will be food for the wind, and your lovers will be taken away prisoners: truly, then you will be shamed and unhonoured because of all your evil-doing.
Hosea 4:15Do not you, O Israel, come into error; do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.
Hosea 7:1When my desire was for the fate of my people to be changed and to make Israel well, then the sin of Ephraim was made clear, and the evil-doing of Samaria; for their ways are false, and the thief comes into the house, while the band of outlaws takes property by force in the streets.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 12:1
In this chapter we have, I. A high charge drawn up against both Israel and Judah for their sins, which were the ground of God's controversy with them, ver. 1, 2 . Particularly the sin of fraud and injustice, which Ephraim is charged with ( ver. 7 ), and justifies himself in, ver. 8 . And the sin of idolatry ( ver. 11 ), by which God is provoked to contend with them, ver. 14 . II. The aggravations of the sins they are charged with, taken from the honour God put upon their father Jacob ( ver. 3-5 ), the advancement… Read the whole commentary →