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Hosea 8 Summary
Idolatry and the Reaping of the Wind
The LORD calls Israel to sound the trumpet because they have transgressed His covenant and trespassed against His law. Israel hath cast off the thing that is good, and the enemy shall pursue him. They have set up kings and made princes without God's knowledge and made themselves idols from silver and gold. They have sown the wind and shall reap the whirlwind; Israel is swallowed up and shall be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. Ephraim hath made many altars to sin.
Key themes
Key verses
Hosea 8:1
“Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.”
Hosea 8:4
“They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.”
Hosea 8:7
“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.”
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