Hosea 8:12

Hosea 8:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
• New International Version (NIV)I wrote for them the many things of my law, but they regarded them as something foreign.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I have written for him the great things of My law, But they were considered a strange thing.

Context of Hosea 8:12

10Although they hire among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall begin to be straitened under the burden of the king of princes. 11Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted [as] a strange thing. 13They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; Jehovah hath no delight in them. Now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. 14For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

Hosea 8:12 word by word

אֶ֨כְתָּב ל֔וֹ רֻבֵּ֖י תּֽוֹרָתִ֑י כְּמוֹ־זָ֖ר נֶחְשָֽׁבוּ׃Read the interlinear

• lawתּוֹרָהtôrâh tôrâh · instructionH8451
• strangeזוּרzûr · be a strangerH2114

Cross-references for Hosea 8:12

• Deuteronomy 4:6And ye shall keep and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Verily this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
• Nehemiah 9:13And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.
• Psalms 119:18Open mine eyes, and I shall behold wondrous things out of thy law.
• Psalms 147:19He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
• Proverbs 22:20Have not I written to thee excellent things, in counsels and knowledge,
• Ezekiel 20:11And I gave them my statutes, and made known unto them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them.
• Romans 3:1What then [is] the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision?
• Romans 7:12So that the law indeed [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
• Hosea 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; for thou hast rejected knowledge, and I will reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
• 2 Kings 17:15And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had testified unto them; and they followed vanity and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.
• Nehemiah 9:26But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
• Psalms 50:17Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee?
• Isaiah 30:9that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;
• Jeremiah 6:16Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the ancient paths, which is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein].

Commentaries on Hosea 8:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12I 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.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12I 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 had written them of old and “manifoldly”, often repeated and in divers manners. He wrote those manifold things “to them” (or “for them”) by Moses, not for that time only, but that they might be continually before their eyes, as if He were still writing. He…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-14Verses 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 them, but they cared not to know, and would not obey it. Man seems by the temples he builds to be mindful of his Maker, yet really he has forgotten him, because he has cast off all his fear; but none ever hardened his heart against God and prospered. So…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. great things of ... law--(De 4:6, 8; Psa 19:8; 119:18, 72; 147:19, 20). Maurer not so well translates, "the many things of My law." my law--as opposed to their inventions. This reference of Hosea to the Pentateuch alone is against the theory that some earlier written prophecies have not come down to us. strange thing--as if a thing with which they had nothing to do.Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 8:12

• Decalogue
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Commentaries on Hosea 8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings