Hosea 8:12

I could write down my law for them ten thousand times, 1 but they would view it as something strange to them. 1

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In The King James Version

I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

In Context

11For Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin offerings, 1 but they have become altars for committing sins instead. 1

13As for the sacrifices of my offerings, 1 they sacrifice meat and eat it, 1 but I, Yahweh, do not accept them. 1 Now I will think about their iniquity 1 and punish their sins. 1 They will return to Egypt. 1

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Cross References

2 Kings 17:15They rejected his statutes and the covenant that he had made with their ancestors, and the covenant decrees that he had given to them. They followed useless practices and they themselves became useless. They followed the pagan nations who were around them, those that Yahweh had commanded them not to imitate.

Nehemiah 9:26Then they became disobedient and they rebelled against you. They threw your law behind their backs. They murdered your prophets who had warned them to turn back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.

Psalms 119:18Open my eyes so that I may see 1 marvelous things in your law. 1

Proverbs 22:20Have I not written for you thirty sayings 1 of instruction and knowledge, 1

Jeremiah 6:16Yahweh says this, “Stand at the road crossing and look; ask for the ancient pathways. 1 'Where is this good way?' Then go on it and find a resting place for yourselves. 1 But the people say, 'We will not go.' 1

Hosea 4:6My people are being destroyed because of the lack of knowledge. 1 Because you priests have rejected knowledge, 1 I will also reject you as priests to me. 1 Because you have forgotten my law, although I am your God, 1 I also will forget your children. 1

Matthew Henry on Hosea 8:9-14

The Sins of Israel; The Crimes of the People. ( b. c. 745.) 8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. 9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. 10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes. 11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. 12 I have written to him the great things… Read the whole commentary →

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