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Hosea 8:8
Hosea 8:8
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Hosea 8 — OverviewHosea 8 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThis chapter, as that before, divides itself into the sins and
punishments of Israel; every verse almost declares both, and all to
bring them to repentance. When they saw the malignant nature of their
sin, in…Hosea 8 — OverviewHosea 8 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeHosea 8:1, Destruction is threatened both to Israel and Judah for their impiety and idolatry.Hosea 8 — OverviewHosea 8 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter treats of the sins and punishment of Israel for them, as the preceding; it is threatened and proclaimed that an enemy should come swiftly against them, because of their transgression of the covenant and law…Hosea 8:1-14Hosea 8:1-14 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITION
This chapter deals with the punishment of apostasy. Once more the sins of the northern kingdom are enumerated and its approaching fall predicted. There is a close connection between the verses in the first…Hosea 8:4-8Hosea 8:4-8 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe causes of the Divine judgments are more particularly specified.
The first sin which brought down the Divine displeasure was their civil apostasy, as it has been called, or change of civil government.
I. NATURE OF…Hosea 8:5-14Hosea 8:5-14 · The Pulpit CommentarySin its own punishment.
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But perhaps the most prominent thought in the passage is that of the self-punishing nature of sin, as illustrated in the early history and the later fortunes of Ephraim. We…
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