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Hosea 13:12

King James Version (KJV)

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Hosea 13:12

Verse 12 of 16

Scripture focus

The iniquity of Ephraim [is] bound up; his sin [is] hid.

Hosea 13:12 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Hosea 13:12

Theological / Devotional

Bound up. As a man, according to custom, wraps up money in a bag and deposits it in some secret place in order that it might be preserved, so God had carefully kept Ephraim’s sins (see Deut. 32:34, 35; Job 14:17). Now Ephraim’s day of reckoning has come. Paul employs the same illustration regarding the fate of the sinner (Rom 2:4-6). Instead of hiding our sins we should bring them out into the full light of repentance and confession if we would be pardoned (see Job 31:33).

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