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

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people."

"You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your Law.

He shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

Haven't I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,

I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them.

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

But

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.

They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.

"Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

seeing you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the LORD;

Thus says the LORD, "Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, 'Where is the good way?' and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls." But they said, "We will not walk in it."

General references

Haven't I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,

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