3They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 1-6)Here, I. The people of Israel are charged with spiritual adultery: O Israel! thou hast gone a whoring from thy God , Hos. 9:1. Their covenant with God was a marriage-covenant, by which they were joined to him as their God, renouncing all others. But when they set up idols and worshipped them, when they fled to creatures for succour and put a confidence in them, they went a whoring from God as thei...
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