OLD TESTAMENT

Hosea 9:1

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Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.

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Verse 1. Reward, or “present.” The kings took the tithe. 1 Kennicott. 8:15. Other infidel nations rejoice in their wealth. Israel ought not to do so; and, in punishment of idolatry, it shall be despoiled. After Jeroboam II. all went to ruin.

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