King James Version
Hosea 8:3 in the King James Version says “Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.” — study this verse from Hosea chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.”
Hosea 8:3 · KJV
Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. thy: Heb. the roof of thy
Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“the thing that is good”
H2896good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good
“shall pursue”
H7291to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively [of time] gone by)
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