Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hosea 8:3
"Israel hath cast off that which is good; the enemy shall pursue him."We believe that Harper rendered the last clause more effectively than it stands in our version, "Let the enemy pursue him."[7] Our version is too mild a statement. The import of the passage is, "Let the destruction commence! The time for judgment and punishment had already come!The reason for this destruction is not left out. It was because Israel had "cast off" that which was good. They had cast off the knowledge of the true... read more
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hosea 8:2
"They shall cry unto God, We Israel know thee."Israel itself thus became a witness to the fact that they indeed possessed prior knowledge and relationship with God; but, instead of conforming their lives to the requirements of such knowledge, they had presumptuously decided that it did not make any difference what they did. There is no need to suppose that Israel was insincere in this frantic appeal to God in their final extremity; but when the Assyrians were already at the border, it was far... read more