The Bible Study Podcast, episode 736.

Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of the book of Hosea with chapter 8.

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We continue on with chapter 8 of Hosea, Israel to reap Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. We continue on with chapter 8 of

Hosea, Israel, to reap the whirlwind. This is a phrase that might sound familiar from this

particular chapter because it has been often quoted, and there are several novels, in fact,

that are named Reap the World Wind in various different places, but here is where

the original comes from, Jose 8. Put the trumpet to your lips, an eagle is over the house of the Lord,

because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law. Israel cries out to me,

Our God, we acknowledge you, but Israel has rejected what is good, an enemy will pursue him.

They set up kings without my consent. They choose princes without my approval. With their silver and

gold, they make idols for themselves to their own destruction. Samaria throughout your calf idol.

My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of purity?

They are from Israel. This calf, a metal worker, has made it. It is not God. It will be broken in pieces,

that calf of Samaria. They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head

will produce no flour. Where to yield grain,

foreigners would swallow it up. Israel is swallowed up. Now she is among the nations,

like someone no one wants, for they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone.

Ifraim has sold herself to lovers, although they have sold

themselves among the nations, I will now gather them together. They will begin to waste away,

under the oppression of the mighty king. Though Ibrahim built many altars for sin offerings,

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