Hosea 8:12

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Summary

Hosea 8:12

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

Written

But

General references

Proverbs 22:20

Matthew 22:36

Bible References

Written

And ye shall keep and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Verily this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.

Open mine eyes, and I shall behold wondrous things out of thy law.

He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

Have not I written to thee excellent things, in counsels and knowledge,

And I gave them my statutes, and made known unto them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them.

What then is the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision?

So that the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

But

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; for thou hast rejected knowledge, and I will reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had testified unto them; and they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.

But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee?

that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;

Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the ancient paths, which is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

General references

Have not I written to thee excellent things, in counsels and knowledge,

Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?