OLD TESTAMENT

Hosea 7:1

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When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.

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Verse 1. Israel. God divided the kingdom, that by this chastisement the people might be converted. But Jeroboam set up calves, and caused them to grow worse. Worthington.—How often did God send his prophets to reclaim them!—Without. Most of the kings were of this stamp, while foreign nations invaded the land.

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