Bible Strands
Hosea 2:8
For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold—which they crafted for Baal.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks through Hosea to Israel, confronting the nation’s spiritual adultery at the precise moment her pursuit of foreign gods has left her destitute.
The words — The Hebrew יָֽדְעָ֔ה (ya.de.'Ah) translates literally as "she knows," while נָתַ֣תִּי (na.Ta.ti) means "I gave," anchoring the verse in a direct claim about divine provision.
The thread — This pattern of unrecognized provision and spiritual blindness recurs in Isaiah 1:3, Ezekiel 16:16, and Hosea 4:11.
Why it lands — The text requires readers to stop attributing their sustenance to idols or circumstance and to plainly acknowledge God as the origin of every material blessing.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 1:3 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
- Ezekiel 16:16 You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!
- Hosea 4:11 to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding.
- Hosea 8:4 They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.
- Hosea 13:2 Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”
- Romans 1:28 Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
- Exodus 32:2 So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”
- Judges 9:27 And after they had gone out into the fields, gathered grapes from their vineyards, and trodden them, they held a festival and went into the house of their god; and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.
- Judges 17:1 Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim
- Isaiah 24:7 The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.