Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
I will write to him his multitude of my instructions; they were reckoned as a strange thing.
New American Standard Bible
They are regarded as a strange thing.
King James Version
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
Holman Bible
ten thousand points of My instruction,
they would be
International Standard Version
I prescribed great things from my Law for them, but they considered them profane.
A Conservative Version
I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law, but they are counted as a strange thing.
American Standard Version
I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.
Amplified
I wrote for him the ten thousand precepts of My law,
But they are regarded as a strange thing [which does not concern him].
Bible in Basic English
Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.
Darby Translation
I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted as a strange thing.
King James 2000
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I write for him myriads of my instruction; they are regarded as a strange thing.
Modern King James verseion
I have written to him the great things of My Law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Though I show them my law never so much, they count it but strange doctrine.
NET Bible
I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown to them!
New Heart English Bible
I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.
The Emphasized Bible
I have been wont to write for him the myriad things of my law, - Like something alien, have they been accounted.
Webster
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
World English Bible
I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.
Youngs Literal Translation
I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 8:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Rejects The Good
11 Because Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, altars were to him to sin. 12 I will write to him his multitude of my instructions; they were reckoned as a strange thing. 13 The sacrifices of my gifts they will sacrifice flesh, and they will eat; Jehovah delighted not in them; now will he remember their iniquity, and he will review their sins: they shall turn back to Egypt
Phrases
Cross References
Hosea 4:6
My people were cut off from not knowing: because thou didst reject knowledge and I will reject thee from being priest to me: and thou wilt forget the instructions of thy God; I will also forget thy sons, also I
Deuteronomy 4:6-8
And watch and do: for it is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples who shall hear all these laws, and say, Only this great nation a wise and understanding people.
2 Kings 17:15-16
And they will reject his laws and his covenant which he cut out with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified in them; and they will go after vanity, and they will be vain, and after the nations which were round about them which Jehovah commanded them not to do as they.
Nehemiah 9:13-14
And upon mount Sinai thou camest down, and speaking with them from the heavens, and thou wilt give to them right judgments, and laws of truth, good laws and commands
Nehemiah 9:26
And they will be perverse, and they will rebel against thee, and they will cast thy law behind their back, and they killed thy prophets who testified against them to turn them back to thee, and they will make great reproaches.
Psalm 50:17
And thou hatedst instruction, and thou wilt cast my words behind thee.
Psalm 119:18
Uncover mine, eyes and I shall behold the wonders from thy laws.
Psalm 147:19-20
Announcing his word to Jacob, his laws and judgments to Israel.
Proverbs 22:20
Did I not write to thee three days ago in counsels and knowledge?
Isaiah 30:9
For this is a people of contradiction, sons of lies, sons who will not to hear the law of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 6:16-17
Thus said Jehovah, Stand ye upon the ways, and see, and ask for the beaten paths of old, where this the good way, and go ye in it, and find rest to your soul. And they will say, We will not go.
Ezekiel 20:11
And I shall give to them my laws, and my judgments I caused them to know, which a man shall do them and he lived in them.
Romans 3:1
What then the superiority of the Jew or what the advantage of circumcision?
Romans 7:12
Therefore truly the law holy, and the command holy, and just, and good.