New American Standard Bible 1995
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
10Even though they hire allies among the nations, Now I will gather them up; And they will begin to diminish Because of the burden of the king of princes. 11Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin, They have become altars of sinning for him. Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law, They are regarded as a strange thing. 13As for My sacrificial gifts, They sacrifice the flesh and eat it, But the Lord has taken no delight in them. Now He will remember their iniquity, And punish them for their sins; They will return to Egypt. 14For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; And Judah has multiplied fortified cities, But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.
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אֶ֨כְתָּב ל֔וֹ רֻבֵּ֖י תּֽוֹרָתִ֑י כְּמוֹ־זָ֖ר נֶחְשָֽׁבוּ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Hosea 8:12
- Deuteronomy 4:6So keep and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’
- Nehemiah 9:13Then You came down on Mount Sinai, And spoke with them from heaven; You gave them just ordinances and true laws, Good statutes and commandments.
- Psalms 119:18Open my eyes, that I may behold Wonderful things from Your law.
- Psalms 147:19He declares His words to Jacob, His statutes and His ordinances to Israel.
- Proverbs 22:20Have I not written to you excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,
- Ezekiel 20:11I gave them My statutes and informed them of My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live.
- Romans 3:1Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?
- Romans 7:12So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
- Hosea 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
- 2 Kings 17:15They rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them not to do like them.
- Nehemiah 9:26“But they became disobedient and rebelled against You, And cast Your law behind their backs And killed Your prophets who had admonished them So that they might return to You, And they committed great blasphemies.
- Psalms 50:17For you hate discipline, And you cast My words behind you.
- Isaiah 30:9For this is a rebellious people, false sons, Sons who refuse to listen To the instruction of the Lord;
- Jeremiah 6:16Thus says the Lord, “Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths, Where the good way is, and walk in it; And you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
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
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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
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