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So shall Bethel do to you because of your great wickedness: at daybreak shall the king of Israel be utterly cut off.
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Your Sin is Your Undoing
Commentators highlight the striking phrase, "So shall Bethel do unto you." Instead of blaming God or the Assyrian army, the prophet names Israel's place of idolatry (Bethel) as the agent of their destruction. This powerfully teaches that our own sin is the ultimate cause of our ruin, and we cannot shift the blame. Their downfall was a direct consequence of their own choices.
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Hosea
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18th Century
Presbyterian
So shall Bethel do unto you - God was the judge, who condemned them to suffer so from the enemy. The Assyrian was the instrument of the wrat…
19th Century
Anglican
King ... Cut off.— The close of the kingdom (721 B.C.), already more than once referred to (), is here prophesied…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet here denounces punishment, having previously exposed the sins of the people and sufficiently proved them guilty, who by subterfuges avo…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
So shall Bethel do to you, because of your great wickedness , &c.] Or, "because of the evil of your evil" F19 …
Because God does not desire the death and ruin of sinners, He therefore, in mercy, desires their chastisement. The children of iniquity still remai…
