Hosea 8:12 KJV — MannaFest

Hosea 8:12

I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

KJV

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YLT

I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.

ASV

I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.

WEB

Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.

DBT

I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted [as] a strange thing.

About this book

Old Testament

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Hosea — A prophet commanded to marry an unfaithful wife — his marriage becomes the sermon. Fourteen chapters on covenant unfaithfulness and a love that will not let Israel go.

Author: Hosea son of Beeri (1:1)
Date: Ministry c. 755–715 BC — the decades leading up to the 722 BC fall of the northern kingdom

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21 verses on the floor

Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Mark 7:13
Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
Acts 17:20
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
Romans 7:12
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Deuteronomy 4:6–8
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

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They are things that proclaim the greatness of the Law-maker, and things of great use and great importance to us; they are our life, and our eternal welfare depends upon our observance of them and obedience to them; they will make us great if we make a right use of them; and they are things which God will magnify and make honourable.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

great things of . . . law-- (De 4:6, 8; 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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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