Hosea 8:13

Hosea 8:13

11 “Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin,
They have become for him altars for sinning.

12 I have written for him ^athe great things of My law,
But they were considered a strange thing.

13 For the sacrifices of My offerings ^athey sacrifice flesh and eat it,
^bBut the Lord does not accept them.
^cNow He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.
They shall return to Egypt.

14 “For^a Israel has forgotten ^bhis Maker,
And has built¹ temples;
Judah also has multiplied ^cfortified cities;
But ^dI will send fire upon his cities,
And it shall devour his¹ palaces.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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sacrifices of mine offerings—that is, which they offer to Me.

eat it—Their own carnal gratification is the object which they seek, not My honor.

now—that is, "speedily."

shall return to Egypt— (Hosea 9:3, Hosea 9:6; Hosea 11:11). The same threat as in Deuteronomy 28:68. They fled thither to escape from the Assyrians (compare as to Judah, Jer. 42:1-44:30), when these latter had overthrown their nation. But see on Hosea 9:3.

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