Hosea 8:1
“Place a trumpet at your lips! 1 An eagle is coming over the house of Yahweh 1 because the people have broken my covenant 1 and rebelled against my law. 1
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2They cry out to me, 1 'My God, we in Israel know you.' 1
Cross References
2 Kings 18:27But the chief commander said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words? Has he not sent me to the men who sit on the wall, who will have to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
Isaiah 24:5The earth is polluted by its inhabitants 1 because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, 1 and broken the everlasting covenant. 1
Jeremiah 4:5Report in Judah and let it be heard in Jerusalem. 1 Say, “Blow the trumpet in the land.” 1 Proclaim, “Gather together. Let us go to the fortified cities.” 1
Jeremiah 6:1Find safety, people of Benjamin, by leaving Jerusalem. Blow a trumpet in Tekoa. 1 Raise up over Beth Hakkerem a signal, since wickedness is appearing from the north; a great crushing is coming. 1
Jeremiah 48:40For Yahweh says this, “See, the enemy will come flying like an eagle, spreading out his wings over Moab. 1
Ezekiel 7:14They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but there is no one marching to battle; 1 since my anger is on the entire multitude. 1
Matthew Henry on Hosea 8:1
This chapter, as that before, divides itself into the sins and punishments of Israel; every verse almost declares both, and all to bring them to repentance. When they saw the malignant nature of their sin, in the descriptions of that, they could not but be convinced now much it was their duty to repent of what was so bad in itself; and when they saw the mischievous consequences of their sin, in the predictions of them, they could not but see how much it was their interest to repent for the preventing of them. I.… Read the whole commentary →