Hosea 6:10

10 I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: my people have defiled themselves by worshiping idols.

Hosea 6:10 Meaning and Commentary

Hosea 6:10

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel
Idolatry, the calves set up at Dan and Bethel, which God saw with abhorrence and detestation; or the prophet saw it, and it made his hair stand on end as it were, as the word ^F7 signifies, that such wickedness should be committed by a professing people: there [is] the whoredom of Ephraim;
in the house of Israel is the whoredom of Jeroboam, who was of the tribe of Ephraim, and caused Israel to sin, to go a whoring after idols; or the whoredom of the tribe of Ephraim, which belonged to the house of Israel, and even of all the ten tribes; both corporeal and spiritual whoredom, or idolatry, are here meant: Israel is defiled;
with whoredom of both kinds; it had spread itself all over the ten tribes; they were all infected with it, and polluted by it; see ( Hosea 5:3 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 (hyrwrev) a (rev) "pilus".

Hosea 6:10 In-Context

8 Gilead is a city full of evil people and murderers.

9 The priests are like a gang of robbers who wait in ambush for someone. Even on the road to the holy place at Shechem they commit murder. And they do all this evil deliberately!

10 I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: my people have defiled themselves by worshiping idols.

11 "And as for you, people of Judah, I have set a time to punish you also for what you are doing.