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    Hosea 8

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    Israel has been given great things, and now regards them as something strange—as though the law had arrived from a foreign country.

    The horn and the calfvv. 1–6

    The ram’s horn announces an eagle over the house of the LORD, while Israel cries out that it knows God. A more awkward scene follows: kings and princes have been set up without approval, silver and gold have been turned into idols, and Samaria’s calf is rejected as the work of a craftsman. The little god is not merely wrong; it is due to be broken into pieces.

    Wind, whirlwind, and foreign entanglementsvv. 7–10

    The harvest goes wrong at every stage. Wind is sown, a whirlwind is reaped, grain fails to become flour, and any possible crop is swallowed by foreigners. Israel is then swallowed up among the nations, going up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own; Ephraim, in the chapter’s sudden turn of phrase, has hired lovers. Allies may be hired, but they are to be rounded up instead.

    Strange law, refused sacrifice, burning citiesvv. 11–14

    Ephraim’s many altars have multiplied sin rather than removed it. The great things of the law have become strange, sacrifices are eaten but not accepted, and the sins are remembered. Israel has forgotten its Maker while building palaces; Judah has multiplied fortified cities, which are promised a hotter fate than the calf: fire for their cities and their citadels.

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    1. Hos 8:1Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.

    2. Hos 8:2Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!”

    3. Hos 8:3But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.

    4. Hos 8:4They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.

    5. Hos 8:5He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

    6. Hos 8:6For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.

    7. Hos 8:7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

    8. Hos 8:8Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.

    9. Hos 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.

    10. Hos 8:10Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.

    11. Hos 8:11Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.

    12. Hos 8:12Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.

    13. Hos 8:13Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.

    14. Hos 8:14Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.

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    • 7Proverbs 22:8He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
    • 7Job 4:8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
    • 7Galatians 6:7Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
    • 9Jeremiah 2:24a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
    • 1Hosea 6:7But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
    • 1Deuteronomy 28:49The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
    • 5Jeremiah 13:27Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”
    • 5Hosea 10:5The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn over it with its idolatrous priests—those who rejoiced in its glory—for it has been taken from them into exile.
    • 7Nahum 1:3The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
    • 8Jeremiah 22:28Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
    • 14Deuteronomy 32:18You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
    • 14Jeremiah 17:27But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”
    • 1Jeremiah 4:13Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!
    • 2Matthew 7:21Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
    • 7Hosea 7:9Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.
    • 7Judges 6:3–6Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,

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