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Hosea 8:12
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Though I were to write out for himten thousand points of my instruction,they would be regarded as something strange.
I wrote for him the many things of my law; But they were regarded as a strange thing.
Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.
Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My Law, They are regarded as a strange thing.
I have written many teachings for them, but they think the teachings are strange and foreign.
I wrote for him the ten thousand precepts of My law, But they are regarded as a strange thing [which does not concern him].
I haue written to them the great things of my Lawe: but they were counted as a strange thing.
Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law, They are regarded as a strange thing.
Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law,They are counted as a strange thing.
Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
My instructions for sacrifices were written in detail, but you ignored them.
I write him so many things from my Torah, yet he considers them foreign.
I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted [as] a strange thing.
Even if I wrote 10,000 laws for Ephraim, he would treat them as if they were for some stranger.
I have written to him many of my laws, but my words he considered as a strange thing.
I write down countless teachings for the people, but they reject them as strange and foreign.
I write for him myriads of my instruction; they are regarded as a strange thing.
I will write the great things of My Law for him. They were counted as a strange thing.
I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.
Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.
Though I write for him never so many things of My Law, they are accounted as a stranger's.
I haue written to him the great things of my Law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
I haue written to them the great thinges of my lawe, [but] they are counted as a straunge thing.
I will write down a multitude of commands for him; but his statutes are accounted strange things, even the beloved altars.
Though I write for him my law in ten thousand precepts, they are counted as a strange thing.
I wrote for him the many things of my law; But they were regarded as a strange thing.
Y schal write to hem my many fold lawis, that ben arettid as alien lawis.
I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.
I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a strange thing.
I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown to them!
I have written for him the great things of My law, But they were considered a strange thing.
Even though I gave them all my laws, they act as if those laws don't apply to them.
I wrote 10,000 of My Laws for him, but they think of them as something strange.
Though I write for him the multitude of my instructions, they are regarded as a strange thing.
I have been wont to write for him the myriad things of my law, - Like something alien, have they been accounted.
I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign.
Were I to write for him my laws by ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.
I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.
Though I shewe the my lawe neuer so moch, they counte it but straunge doctrine.
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written: Deuteronomy 4:6-8, Nehemiah 9:13, Nehemiah 9:14, Psalms 119:18, Psalms 147:19, Psalms 147:20, Proverbs 22:20, Ezekiel 20:11, Romans 3:1, Romans 7:12
but: Hosea 4:6, 2 Kings 17:15, 2 Kings 17:16, Nehemiah 9:26, Psalms 50:17, Isaiah 30:9, Jeremiah 6:16, Jeremiah 6:17
Reciprocal: Isaiah 28:13 - precept upon precept Jeremiah 8:8 - the law Jeremiah 36:2 - write Matthew 22:36 - General Mark 7:13 - the word Mark 12:24 - Do Acts 17:20 - strange
Cross-References
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
Wait on the Lord : be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord .
And I will wait upon the Lord , that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord ; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I have written to him the great things of my law,.... Which was given by Moses to Israel at the appointment of God, in which were many commands, holy, just, and true; a multiplicity of them, as the Targum, relating to the honour of God, and the good of men; many excellent and useful ones of a moral nature, and others of a ceremonial kind; and particularly concerning sacrifices, showing what they should be, the nature and use of them, and where and on what altar they should be offered; and which pointed at the great sacrifice of the Messiah, who is both altar, sacrifice, and priest: and these things were frequently inculcated by the prophets, who from time to time were sent unto them; so that the Lord was continually writing these things to them by them, as Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech interpret it; hence they could not plead ignorance, and excuse themselves on that account. The law sometimes not only designs the law of the decalogue, and the ceremonial law, respecting sacrifices, c. but all the books of Moses, in which are written many great and excellent things concerning Christ, his person, offices, and grace yea, all the books of the prophets, the whole of Scripture, which is by inspiration of God, and is the writing and word of God, and not men; and of which holy men of God were the "amanuenses"; and in which many valuable and precious things are recorded, even all the works of God, of creation, providence, and grace; yea, the various thoughts, counsels, and purposes of his heart, relating to the salvation of men, are transcribed here; and the manifold grace of God, or each of the doctrines of grace, are contained herein, especially in the doctrinal and evangelical part of it, which is sometimes called the law of the Lord, even of Christ; and the law or doctrine of faith; see Psalms 119:18; here are delivered and held forth the great doctrines of a trinity of Persons in the Godhead; of the everlasting love of God to his people, and of their choice in Christ before the world began; of the covenant of grace; of the incarnation of Christ; of redemption by him; of peace, pardon, righteousness, and atonement, through him; of eternal salvation by him; these things are written, and to be read and referred unto, and observed as the rule of faith and practice, and not unwritten traditions, pretended revelations, reveries, and dreams of men; and written they were, not for the use of the Israelites only under the former dispensation, but for the learning and instruction of us Gentiles also, Romans 3:2;
[but] they were counted as a strange thing; the laws respecting sacrifices more especially, and the place where they were to be offered, which are the things mentioned in the context, had been so long disregarded and disused by Ephraim or the ten tribes, that when they were put in mind of them by the prophets, they looked upon them as things they had no concern with; as laws that belonged to another people, and not to them: and so the great things of divine revelation, the great doctrines of the Gospel, are treated by many as things they have nothing to do with, not at all interesting to them; yea, as nauseous and despicable things, deserving their scorn and contempt, very ungrateful and disagreeable, and in this sense strange, as Job's breath was to his wife Job 19:17; and also as foreign to reason and good sense, and what cannot be reconciled thereunto: so the Athenians charged the doctrines of the Apostle Paul as strange, irrational, and unaccountable, Acts 17:20.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I have written to him the great things of My law - Literally, “I write.” Their sin then had no excuse of ignorance. God had written their duties for them in the ten commandments with His own hand; He had written them of old and “manifoldly” , often repeated and in divers manners. He wrote those manifold things “to them” (or “for them”) by Moses, not for that time only, but that they might be continually before their eyes, as if He were still writing. He had written to them since, in their histories, in the Psalms. His words were still sounding in their ears through the teaching of the prophets. God did not only give His law or revelation once for all, and so leave it. By His providence and by His ministers He continually renewed the knowledge of it, so that those who ignored it, should have no excuse. This ever-renewed agency of God He expresses by the word, “I write,” what in substance was long ago written. What God then wrote, were “the great things of His law” (as the converted Jews, on the day of Pentecost speak of “the great” or “wonderful things of God” ) or “the manifold things of His law,” as the Apostle speaks of “the manifold wisdom of God” Ephesians 3:10, and says, that “God at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets” Hebrews 1:1.
They were counted as a strange thing by them - These “great,” or “manifold things of God’s law,” which ought to have been continually before their eyes, in their mind and in their mouth Deuteronomy 6:7-9, they, although God had written them for them, “counted as a strange thing,” a thing quite foreign and alien to them, with which they had no concern. Perhaps this was their excuse to themselves, that it Was “foreign” to “them.” As Christians say now, that one is not to take God’s law so precisely; that the Gospel is not so strict as the law; that people, before the grace of the Gospel, had to be stricter than with it; that “the liberty of the Gospel” is freedom, not from sin, but from duty; that such and such things belonged to the early Christians, while they were surrounded by pagan, or to the first times of the Gospel, or to the days when it was persecuted; that riches were dangerous, when people could scarcely have them, not now, when every one has them; that “vice lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness” ; that the world was perilous, when it was the Christian’s open foe, not now, when it would be friends with us, and have us friends with it; that, “love not the world” was a precept for times when the world hated us, not now, when it is all around us, and steals our hearts, So Jeroboam and Israel too doubtless said, that those prohibitions of idolatry were necessary, when the pagan were still in the land, or while their forefathers were just fresh out of Egypt; that it was, after all, God, who, was worshiped under the calves; that state-policy required it; that Jeroboam was appointed by God, and must needs carry out that appointment, as he best could. With these or the like excuses, he must doubtless have excused himself, as though God’s law were good, but “foreign” to “them.” God counts such excuses, not as a plea, but as a sin.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 8:12. I have written to him the great things of my law — I have as it were inscribed my laws to them, and they have treated them as matters in which they had no interest.
