Hosea 8:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

Hosea 8:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 3:66
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
Leviticus 26:36
And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
1 Timothy 5:12
Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
Psalms 81:10-11
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. …
Amos 1:11
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

The reproofs and threatenings here are introduced with an order to the prophet to set the trumpet to his mouth (Hos. 8:1), thus to call a solemn assembly, that all might take notice of what he had to deliver and take warning by it. He must sound an alarm, must, in God’s name, proclaim war with this rebellious nation. An enemy is coming with speed and fury to seize their land, and he must awaken th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. Israel--God repeats the name in opposition to their use of it (Ho 8:2). the thing that is good--Jerome translates, “God” who is good and doing good (Psa 119:68). He is the chief object rejected, but with Him also all that is good. the enemy shall pursue him--in just retribution from God.