Hosea 8:12
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
Hosea 8:12 in other translations
| BSB | Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange. |
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| WEB | I wrote for him the many things of my law, but they were regarded as a strange thing. |
| ASV | I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing. |
| YLT | I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned. |
| DARBY | I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted as a strange thing. |
| BBE | Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing. |
| Webster | I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. |
What does Hosea 8:12 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 8:11-14
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…
Hosea 8:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Hosea 8:12
- 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. For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
- 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.
- Proverbs 22:20
Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
- 2 Kings 17:15-16
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them. And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
- Nehemiah 9:26
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
- Psalms 119:18
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
- Psalms 147:19-20
He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord.
- Ezekiel 20:11
And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
- Romans 3:1
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
- Jeremiah 6:16-17
Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
- Isaiah 30:9
That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord:
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- Hosea 8:11
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
- Hosea 8:12
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
- Hosea 8:13
They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the Lord accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
Hosea 8:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Escribíle las grandezas de mi ley, y fueron tenidas por cosas ajenas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | J’ai écrit pour lui les grandes choses de ma loi; elles sont estimées comme une chose étrange. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ich schreibe ihm zehntausend Satzungen meines Gesetzes vor: wie Fremdes werden sie geachtet. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Scribam ei multiplices leges meas, quæ velut alienæ computatæ sunt. |