New King James Version
Hosea 8:12
12I have written for him the great things of My law, But they were considered a strange thing.
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 Living Translation (NLT)Even though I gave them all my laws, they act as if those laws don’t apply to them.
Context of Hosea 8:12
10Yes, though they have hired among the nations, Now I will gather them; And they shall sorrow a little, Because of the burden of the king of princes. 11“Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin, They have become for him altars for sinning. I have written for him the great things of My law, But they were considered a strange thing. 13For the sacrifices of My offerings they sacrifice flesh and eat it, But the Lord does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. They shall return to Egypt. 14“For Israel has forgotten his Maker, And has built temples; Judah also has multiplied fortified cities; But I will send fire upon his cities, And it shall devour his palaces.”
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אֶ֨כְתָּב ל֔וֹ רֻבֵּ֖י תּֽוֹרָתִ֑י כְּמוֹ־זָ֖ר נֶחְשָֽׁבוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Hosea 8:12
- Deuteronomy 4:6Therefore be careful to observe them; for this 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 9:13“You came down also on Mount Sinai, And spoke with them from heaven, And gave them just ordinances and true laws, Good statutes and commandments.
- Psalms 119:18Open my eyes, that I may see Wondrous things from Your law.
- Psalms 147:19He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel.
- Proverbs 22:20Have I not written to you excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,
- Ezekiel 20:11And I gave them My statutes and showed them My judgments, ‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them.’
- Romans 3:1What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?
- Romans 7:12Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
- Hosea 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
- 2 Kings 17:15And they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed idols, became idolaters, and went after the nations who were all around them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them that they should not do like them.
- Nehemiah 9:26“Nevertheless they were disobedient And rebelled against You, Cast Your law behind their backs And killed Your prophets, who testified against them To turn them to Yourself; And they worked great provocations.
- Psalms 50:17Seeing you hate instruction And cast My words behind you?
- Isaiah 30:9That this is a rebellious people, Lying children, Children who will not hear the law of the Lord;
- Jeremiah 6:16Thus says the Lord: “Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then 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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