Hosea 10:3 KJV — MannaFest

Hosea 10:3

For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord; what then should a king do to us?

KJV

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ASV

Surely now shall they say, We have no king; for we fear not Jehovah; and the king, what can he do for us?

WEB

Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?”

YLT

For now they say: We have no king, Because we have not feared Jehovah, And the king--what doth he for us?

DBT

For now they will say, We have no king, for we feared not Jehovah; and a king, what can he do for us?

About this book

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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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12 verses on the floor

Hosea 10:15
So shall Beth–el do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.
Hosea 13:10
I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?
Hosea 13:11
I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.
Hosea 10:7
As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
1 Samuel 12:25
But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.

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Time was when they doted upon having a king; but now what can a king (who, they thought, could do any thing) do for them? God can make people sick of those creature-confidences which they were most fond of. This is their complaint when their king is disabled to help them, yet this is not the worst; their civil government shall not only be weakened, but quite destroyed (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

They are charged with imitating the sins of their fathers, and with security in their own sins, and are threatened with smarting humbling judgments,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

now, &c.--Soon they, deprived of their king, shall be reduced to say, We have no king (Ho 10:7, 15), for Jehovah deprived us of him, because of our not fearing God. What then (seeing God is against us) should a king be able to do for us, if we had one?

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

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