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 {you must observe them diligently}, for that [is] your wisdom and your insight before the eyes of the people, who will hear all [of] these rules, and they will say, 'Surely this great nation [is] a wise and discerning people.'

Then you came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right judgments and true teachings, good regulations and commandments.

Uncover my eyes, that I may look at wonderful things from your law.

[He] declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

Have I not written for you thirty [sayings] with admonitions and knowledge?

and I gave my statutes to them, and my regulations I made known to them, which, if a person does them, then he will live by them.

Therefore, what [is] the advantage of the Jew, or what [is] the use of circumcision?

So then, the law [is] holy, and the commandment [is] holy and righteous and good.

But

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from acting as a priest for me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

They rejected his statutes, his covenant which he {made} with their ancestors, and his warnings which he gave to them; and they went after the idols, became vain, and [went] after all the nations which [were] all around them, which Yahweh had commanded them not to do as they [did].

"But they rebelled and were rebellious against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them to turn back to you, and they did great blasphemies.

while you yourself hate discipline, and cast my words behind you?

For it [is] a people of rebellion, deceitful children, children [who are] not willing to hear the instruction of Yahweh,

Thus says Yahweh: "Stand at [the] roads and look, and ask for [the] ancient paths, where the way of the good [is], and walk in it, and find rest for your inner selves. But they said, 'We will not walk [in it].'

General references

Have I not written for you thirty [sayings] with admonitions and knowledge?

"Teacher, which commandment [is] greatest in the law?"