Hosea 8:12

The great things. Or, “the ten thousands.” Inasmuch as Israel was favored, as no other people was, with the revelation of God’s will in a written law, there was no excuse for her apostasy. The divine instructions were too numerous, too detailed, too plain, and too inclusive for that. Counted as a strange thing. Although God’s directions and instructions were full and adequate, they became foreign to the inclinations of the chosen people, and so God’s teachings went unheeded. In view of the free access all have to God’s Word today in all lands and in all languages, we who live in a world needier, more troubled, and more hostile than that of Israel’s day, will find that we have no excuse if we neglect the Sacred Scriptures and their message (see Heb. 2:1-3).