Hosea 12:1
The leaders of Israel are constantly wavering about seeking help from other countries. Seeking their help is as useless as [MET] chasing the wind. They pile up their lies and violent acts. First, they make a treaty with Assyria, and then they send olive oil to the rulers of Egypt to seek their help.
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2 Kings 15:19Then King Tiglath-Pileser of Assyria came with his army to attack Israel. So Menahem gave him ◄thirty-eight tons/35,000 kg.► of silver in order that Tiglath-Pileser would help Menahem to continue to be king and rule his country more strongly.
2 Chronicles 21:11On the hilltops in Judah he had also built shrines to worship idols, and had caused the people of Judah to stray away from Yahweh by worshiping foreign gods.
Psalms 78:36But they tried to deceive God by what they said [MTY]; their words [MTY] were all lies.
Jeremiah 22:22So, now I will punish all your leaders; it will be as though they have been blown away by the wind. They will be captured by your enemies and taken to another country. When that happens, you will truly be ashamed and disgraced because of all the wicked things that you have done.
Hosea 4:15You Israeli people have abandoned me like [MET] those who commit adultery have abandoned their spouses. But do not cause the people of Judah to sin also. Do not go to Gilgal or go up to Beth-Aven towns to worship idols there. Do not make solemn promises there, saying ‘Just as surely as Yahweh lives, I will do what I am promising.’
Hosea 7:1“and when I wanted to heal them again, I did not do it, because I saw the wicked things that the people of Samaria city and other places in Israel [DOU] have done. They constantly deceive others; bandits rob people 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 →