KJV King James Version
I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a strange thing.
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Hosea 8:12
I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a strange thing.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
WEB World English Bible
I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.
ASV American Standard Version
I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.
Surrounding context — Hosea 8
9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
12 I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a strange thing.
13 They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat [it; but] the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
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Romans 7:12Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.Deuteronomy 4:6-8Keep therefore and do [them]; for this [is] your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation [is] a wise and understanding people.Hosea 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.2 Kings 17:15-16And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that [were] round about them, [concerning] whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.Proverbs 22:20Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,Psalm 119:18Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.Romans 3:1What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision?Nehemiah 9:13-14Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:Psalm 147:19-20He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.Psalm 50:17Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.Ezekiel 20:11And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them.Isaiah 30:9That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not hear the law of the LORD:Nehemiah 9:26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.Jeremiah 6:16-17Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where [is] the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein].
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