Hosea 8:12
What meaning of the hosea 8:12 in the Bible?
What does Hosea 8:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing."
What does Hosea 8:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing."
Verse Hosea 8:12. _I HAVE WRITTEN TO HIM THE GREAT THINGS OF MY LAW_] I have as it were inscribed my laws to them, and they have treated them as matters in which they had no interest....
I HAVE WRITTEN TO HIM THE GREAT THINGS OF MY LAW - Literally, “I write.” Their sin then had no excuse of ignorance. God had written their duties for them in the ten commandments with His own hand; He...
CHAPTER 8:1-9:9 The Apostasy is Followed by Judgment _ 1. The judgment announced (Hosea 8:1) _ 2. The apostasy which resulted in judgment (Hosea 8:8) 3. Warning against self-security (Hosea 9:1) H...
ISRAEL'S UNSANCTIFIED NATIONAL LIFE. Man-made kings, like man-made gods (the calf of Samaria), are impotent; Israel sows the wind and shall reap the whirlwind; the sources of the national life are wit...
I HAVE WRITTEN. Not Moses: he was only the pen. It was God who "spoke by the prophets" (Hebrews 1:1); by His Son (John 7:16; John 8:28; John 8:46; John 8:47; John 12:49; John 14:10; John 14:24; John 1...
The judgment is already begun; Israel has drawn it upon himself, by dallying with Assyria, by religious abuses, and by a vain confidence in fortified cities....
_ISRAEL HAD FORGOTTEN HER MAKER -- HOSEA 8:12-14:_ Israel could not claim ignorance as a reason for her failure to obey God. His "instructions for sacrifices were written in detail, but you ignored th...
DISCOURSE: 1165 MEN’S DISREGARD OF THE GOSPEL Hosea 8:12. _I have written to him the great things of my Law, but they were counted as a strange thing_. GOD, in estimating the sins of men, takes into...
I HAVE WRITTEN, &C.— _And thus will I inscribe him_ [_Ephraim_]; _they who were the masters_ [or _teachers_] _of my law, are esteemed as strangers;_ "are become utterly useless;" Hosea 8:8. God suppor...
TEXT: Hosea 8:8-14 8 Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein none delighteth. 9 For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath h...
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. I HAVE WRITTEN TO HIM THE GREAT THINGS OF MY LAW - (; , "What nation is there so great that hath statutes...
THE LONG-MERITED RETRIBUTION The enemy is coming immediately to destroy their temples and palaces and desolate the land, and as a punishment for their idolatry and disloyalty to God. In vain will the...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 8 GOD IS ANGRY WITH ISRAEL BECAUSE SHE PRAYS TO *IDOLS V1 Put a *trumpet to your lips and warn people! An *eagle is over the *L...
The rendering should be, _though I write for him a multitude of my precepts._ The tense “I write” is imperfect, and represents the continuous process — the prophetic teaching as well as the ancient Mo...
_אֶ֨כְתָּב_† ־לֹ֔ו _רֻבֵּ֖י_† תֹּֽורָתִ֑י כְּמֹו ־זָ֖ר נֶחְשָֽׁבוּ׃...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1; Hosea 9:1; Hosea 10:1; Hosea 11:1; Hosea 12:1; Hosea 13:1;...
REAPING THE WHIRLWIND Hosea 8:1-14 A conqueror was at hand who should subdue and punish the whole nation for taking its own course, irrespective of God, Hosea 8:4-8; for seeking foreign alliances wh...
From this statement of the case the prophet turned to the pronouncement of judgment. This he did by adopting the figure of the trumpet lifted to the mouth, on which five blasts were sounded, in each o...
I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a (i) strange thing. (i) In this way the idolaters consider the word of God as strange with regard to their own invention....
_Foreign. Shall I give them laws again to despise? Septuagint, "I shall write down their number." It will be an easy task, they shall be so diminished. "His laws," &c., (Calmet) or, "I will describe t...
Here is a very striking passage in these words of the Lord, and is as suited to all ages as to the age of Israel. The Lord saith, that the great things he wrote to Israel were counted by them strange...
The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...
XI. HOSEA 8:7 (NASB) FOR THEY SOW THE WIND, AND THEY REAP THE WHIRLWIND......
The Prophet shows here briefly, how we ought to judge of divine worship, and thus intends to cut off the handle from all devices, by which men usually deceive themselves, and form disguises, when at a...
In chapter 8 it is especially the daring and continual violation of the law of their God, with which Israel is openly reproached, and which would bring judgment, with eagle swiftness, upon them. Obser...
I HAVE WRITTEN TO HIM THE GREAT THINGS OF MY LAW,.... Which was given by Moses to Israel at the appointment of God, in which were many commands, holy, just, and true; a multiplicity of them, as the Ta...
I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a strange thing. Ver. 12. _I have written to him the great things of my law_] _magnalia legis; _ great things of the law,...
_Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin_ “Since the Israelites, forsaking that one altar at which alone God required them to serve him, idolatrously multiplied altars to themselves, altars again...
A FURTHER THREAT OF JUDGMENT...
11-14 It is a great sin to corrupt the worship of God, and will be charged as sin on all who do it, how plausible soever their excuses may seem to be. The Lord had caused his law to be written for the...
I HAVE WRITTEN: some read it in the future, and by way of question, Shall I write? but most read as we, in the perfect or past tense, I have written, by Moses first, by other prophets afterwards; the...
Hosea 8:12 written H3789 (H8799) things H7230 (H8675) H7239 law H8451 considered H2803 (H8738) strange H2114 (H8801) written - Deuteronomy 4:6-8; Nehemiah 9:13-14; Psalms 119:18,...
BECAUSE ISRAEL HAVE DESERTED YHWH AND LOOKED TO OTHERS, (BOTH NATIONS AND GODS), IN SPITE OF HAVING RECEIVED HIS ABUNDANT INSTRUCTION, HE WILL DESERT THEM AND THEY WILL RETURN TO EGYPT AND SEE THEIR C...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Sins denounced and captivity foretold. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Those who sow to the flesh must reap corruption. All the hopes of sinners are cheats, and...
Hosea 8:1. _Set the trumpet to thy mouth._ Give alarm, for the king of Assyria is coming; he is stretching his wings like an eagle to take the prey. Isaiah uses the same figure, in Isaiah 58:1. _Agai...
_I have written to him the great things of My law, but they were counted a strange thing._ A GRAVE MISCALCULATION What God complains of is that whilst He has made known to Israel the loftiest truths...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 8:1 The people of Israel may claim to know and love the Lord, but their deeds prove otherwise. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.le...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 8:11. MANY] Israel should only have one altar (Deuteronomy 12:3; Deuteronomy 12:5). TO SIN] Altars made by them should be the source of their punishment; they shall go where th...
EXPOSITION This chapter deals with the punishment of apostasy. Once more the sins of the northern kingdom are enumerated and its approaching fall predicted. There is a close connection between the ver...
Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law (Hsa Hosea 8:1). So God again is giving...
2 Kings 17:15; 2 Kings 17:16; Deuteronomy 4:6; Ezekiel 20:11; Hosea 4:6; Isaiah 30:9; Jeremiah 6:16; Jeremiah 6:17; Nehemiah 9:13; Nehemi
Written — By Moses first, by other prophets afterwards. But they were counted — Israel looks on them, as nothing to them....