Hosea 8:12
Hosea · Old Testament · Chapter 8
“I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.”Hosea 8:12
What Does Hosea 8:12 Mean?
Hosea 8:12 is found in the book of Hosea, chapter 8, verse 12 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Hosea 8:12 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
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.”Mark 7:13“Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.”Acts 17:20“For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.”Deuteronomy 4:6“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.”Psalms 119:18“Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.”Jeremiah 8:8“How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.”Jeremiah 36:2“Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.”Romans 7:12“Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.”2 Kings 17:15“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.”Nehemiah 9:13“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:”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 casteth my words behind thee.”Psalms 147:19“He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.”Proverbs 22:20“Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,”Isaiah 28:13“But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.”Isaiah 30:9“That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:”Jeremiah 6:16“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.”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.”Mark 12:24“And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?”Romans 3:1“What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?”
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