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Hosea 8:12

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Though I wrote for him ten thousand [precepts] of My law, They are regarded as a strange thing.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a strange thing.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Though I write for him my law in ten thousand [precepts], they are counted as a strange thing.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a strange thing.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted [as] a strange thing.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— I have been wont to write for him the myriad things of my law,—Like something alien, have they been accounted.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— I haue written to them the great things of my Lawe: but they were counted as a strange thing.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— I haue written to him the great things of my Law, [but] they were counted as a strange thing.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— I have written to him many of my laws, but my words he considered as a strange thing.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— I will write down a multitude [of commands] for him; but his statutes are accounted strange things, [even] the beloved altars.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a strange thing.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
I have written 3789
{3789} Prime
כָּתַב
kathab
{kaw-thab'}
A primitive root; to grave; by implication to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
to him the great things 7230
{7230} Prime
רֹב
rob
{robe}
From H7231; abundance (in any respect).
z8675
<8675> Grammar
Kethiv Reading

Where the translators of the Authorised Version followed the qere reading rather than the kethiv.
y7239
[7239] Standard
רִבּוֹ
ribbow
{rib-bo'}
From H7231; a myriad, that is, indefinite large number.
of my law, 8451
{8451} Prime
תּוֹרָה
towrah
{to-raw'}
From H3384; a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch.
[but] they were counted 2803
{2803} Prime
חָשַׁב
chashab
{khaw-shab'}
A primitive root; properly to plait or interpenetrate, that is, (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute.
z8738
<8738> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 1429
as x3644
(3644) Complement
כְמוֹ
k@mow
{kem-o'}
A form of the prefix K, but used separately (compare H3651); as, thus, so.
a strange thing. 2114
{2114} Prime
זוּר
zuwr
{zoor}
A primitive root; to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery.
z8801
<8801> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Participle (See H8813)
Count - 309
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Hosea 8:12

_ _ great things of ... law — (Deuteronomy 4:6, Deuteronomy 4:8; Psalms 19:8; Psalms 119:18, Psalms 119:72; Psalms 147:19, Psalms 147:20). Maurer not so well translates, “the many things of My law.”

_ _ my law — as opposed to their inventions. This reference of Hosea to the Pentateuch alone is against the theory that some earlier written prophecies have not come down to us.

_ _ strange thing — as if a thing with which they had nothing to do.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Hosea 8:8-14.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hosea 8:12

Written — By Moses first, by other prophets afterwards. But they were counted — Israel looks on them, as nothing to them.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Hosea 8:12

I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a (i) strange thing.

(i) In this way the idolaters consider the word of God as strange with regard to their own invention.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
written:

Deuteronomy 4:6-8 Keep 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. ... And what nation [is there so] great, that hath statutes and judgments [so] righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Nehemiah 9:13-14 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: ... And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
Psalms 119:18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Psalms 147:19-20 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. ... He hath not dealt so with any nation: and [as for his] judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
Proverbs 22:20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
Ezekiel 20:11 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them.
Romans 3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision?
Romans 7:12 Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

but:

Hosea 4:6 My 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 17:15-16 And 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. ... And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, [even] two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
Nehemiah 9:26 Nevertheless 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.
Psalms 50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
Isaiah 30:9 That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not hear the law of the LORD:
Jeremiah 6:16-17 Thus 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]. ... Also I set watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Dt 4:6. 2K 17:15. Ne 9:13, 26. Ps 50:17; 119:18; 147:19. Pv 22:20. Is 30:9. Jr 6:16. Ezk 20:11. Ho 4:6. Ro 3:1; 7:12.

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