BoH17 Tom Bradford's Torah Class - Hosea Chapter 10

I think you’re beginning to get a taste of what we’re in for in Hosea chapter 10. What we can say, then, about verse 1 on a thought-for-thought approach is this: Israel used all that God had graciously given them not to His glory, but instead they glorified Baal through their worship and sacrificing. They multiplied the number of pagan altars they built in proportion to the abundance they had been given. This proved to have been historically true as archeologists have found pagan altars on hill tops all over the hill country of what was formerly the land of the Northern Kingdom. This is a classic case of YHWH’s people misusing YHWH’s gifts to them...to us. This is also setting up the dynamic of, what then does a farmer (YHWH) do with a vine (Israel) that doesn’t produce good fruit for Him? That vine is fit only to be cut down and burned up.

Tom Bradford

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