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Hosea 10:15
Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet addresses the leaders and inhabitants of Bethel and the northern kingdom, pronouncing immediate judgment following the description of breached fortresses in the preceding verse.
The words — כָּ֗כָה (Ka.khah) means "thus," and בַּ/שַּׁ֕חַר (ba./Sha.char) means "at dawn," structuring the announcement as both an inevitable execution and a time-bound event.
The thread — The paired destruction of idolatrous sites and royal authority recurs in Hosea 10:5 regarding the calf of Beth-aven, Hosea 10:7 where the king is carried off like a twig, and Amos 7:9 where God rises against the house of Jeroboam after the high places are laid waste.
Why it lands — The text states that entrenched wickedness produces a fixed historical outcome, requiring the reader to acknowledge that political and religious rebellion triggers an irreversible dismantling.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
So shall Beth–el do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.
Cross-references
- Hosea 10:5 The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn over it with its idolatrous priests—those who rejoiced in its glory—for it has been taken from them into exile.
- Hosea 10:7 Samaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water.
- Amos 7:9 The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.”
- Romans 7:13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
- Isaiah 16:14 And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”
- Hosea 10:3 Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?”