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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 8
Both Israel and Judah have forsaken the Lord—The Lord has written
the great things of his law to Ephraim.
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Israel, that is Samaria who is Ephraim, has forsaken the Lord—And
the Lord has written the great things of his law to Ephraim. Also the Lord
will send fire upon the cities of Judah and devour the palaces thereof.
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Hosea speaks primarily against
Israel/Samaria who is Ephraim
YET
here he also condemns Judah
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1 SET the atrumpet to thy mouth.
He shall come as an beagle against the house of the
LORD, because they have ctransgressed my covenant, and
trespassed against my law.
2 Israel shall cry unto me, My aGod,
we bknow thee.
3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good:
the aenemy shall pursue him.
4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have
made princes, and aI knew it not: of their silver
and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
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5 ¶ Thy acalf, O
Samariaa, hath
cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it
be bere they attain to innocency?
6 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall
areap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield
no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
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5a Thy calf, O Samaria
Worshipping 'the calf', which began in the wilderness while Moses was in the
mount, and was then re-established by King Jeroboam, is not as foriegn to
Jehovah worship as some would estange it. True, one is not to worship the
animal, but it was Jehovah himself who instituted the sacrifice of animals,
particularly the calf or 'heifer' as a similitude and rememberance of his
atoning sacrifice to come. When Moses' brother Aaron went along with the
moldng of the calf, is was to be in rememberance of the 'calf of Ephraim'
or 'Messiah ben Ephraim/Messiah ben Joseph' (see
Messiah ben David ~ Messiah ben Joseph) the
suffering Messiah who the calf might be seen to so represent
and who was to come to suffer for the sins of
the world but it degenerated into being a worshipping of the idol itself and
this is what Jeroboam restored, a corruption of Jehovah worship into false
worship of the calf itself.
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8 Israel is aswallowed up: now shall
they be among the Gentiles as a bvessel wherein is
no pleasure.
9 For they are gone up to aAssyria,
a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath bhired
lovers.
10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
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11 Because Ephraim hath made many
aaltars to bsin, altars shall be unto him
to sin.
12 I have awritten to him the great
things of my blaw, but they were counted as a
strange thing.
13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of
mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD aaccepteth
them not; now will he bremember their iniquity, and visit
their sins: they shall return to cEgypt.
14 For Israel hath forgotten his
aMaker, and buildeth btemples; and Judah
hath multiplied cfenced cities: but I will send a
dfire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces
thereof.
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