Hosea 8:6

"Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?"

Key Reflection

Hosea 8:6 conveys God's intense displeasure with the Israelites for worshiping a golden calf in Samaria, symbolizing their rejection of the true God. The prophet predicts that this idolatry will lead to divine judgment, highlighting the need for spiritual purification and repentance among the people.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

For -This verse may assign the reasons of God’s displeasure, “mine anger is kindled;” or of Israel’s impenitency, “How long will it be?” This indeed is only going a little further back, for Israel’s incorrigibleness was the ground of God’s displeasure. And they were incorrigible; because they had themselves devised it; “for from Israel was it also.” Those are especially incorrigible, who do not fall into error through ignorance, but who through malice devise it out of their own heart. Such persons act and speak, not as seduced by others, but seducing themselves, and condemned by their own judgment.

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