Hosea 8:12

Israel Rejects The Good

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For Ephraim has constructed many altars for sin;
They are altars intended for sinning [which multiply his guilt].
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I wrote for him the ten thousand precepts of My law,
But they are regarded as a strange thing [which does not concern him].
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As for My sacrificial offerings,
They sacrifice the meat [as a mere formality] and eat it,
But the Lord is not pleased with them and does not accept them.
Now He will remember and take into account their wickedness and guilt,
And punish them for their sins.
They will return [in captivity] to [another] Egypt [that is, Assyria].

Great Things

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge [of My law, where I reveal My will].
Because you [the priestly nation] have rejected knowledge,
I will also reject you from being My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I will also forget your children.

Deuteronomy 4:6-8

So keep and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’

2 Kings 17:15-16

They rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers, as well as His warnings that he gave them. And they followed vanity [that is, false gods, idols] and became vain (empty-headed). They followed the [pagan practices of the] nations which surrounded them, although the Lord had commanded that they were not to do as they did.

Nehemiah 9:13-14

“Then You came down on Mount Sinai,
And spoke with them from heaven;
And You gave them fair ordinances and true laws,
Good statutes and commandments.

Nehemiah 9:26

“Yet they were disobedient and rebelled against You,
And cast Your law behind their backs
And killed Your prophets who warned them
To return to You;
And they committed great [and contemptible] blasphemies.

Psalm 50:17

“For you hate instruction and discipline
And cast My words behind you [discarding them].

Psalm 119:18

Open my eyes [to spiritual truth] so that I may behold
Wonderful things from Your law.

Psalm 147:19-20

He declares His word to Jacob,
His statutes and His ordinances to Israel.

Proverbs 22:20

Have I not written to you excellent things
In counsels and knowledge,

Isaiah 30:9

For this is a rebellious people, lying sons,
Sons who refuse to listen to
The law and instruction of the Lord;

Jeremiah 6:16-17

Thus says the Lord,
“Stand by the roads and look; ask for the ancient paths,
Where the good way is; then walk in it,
And you will find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’

Ezekiel 20:11

I gave them My statutes and explained My ordinances to them, which, if a man keeps, he will live.

Romans 3:1

Then what is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?

Romans 7:12

So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.