--- title: "Hosea 8 - Study King James Bible with pooles english annotations on the holy bible" description: "Read Hosea 8 with pooles english annotations on the holy bible commentary. 1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed agains" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/pooles-english-annotations-on-the-holy-bible/hosea/8" --- [ Read](/kjv/hosea/8)[ Commentary](/study/hosea/8)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/hosea/8) Audio 1 *Set* the trumpet to thy mouth. *He shall come* as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.* 2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. 3 Israel hath cast off *the thing that is* good: the enemy shall pursue him. 4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew *it* not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. 5 ¶ Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast *thee* off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long *will it be* ere they attain to innocency? 6 For from Israel *was* it also: the workman made it; therefore it *is* not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. 7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.* 8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein *is* no pleasure. 9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.* 10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.** 11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. 12 I have written to him the great things of my law, *but* they were counted as a strange thing. 13 They sacrifice flesh *for* the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat *it; but* the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.* 14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. [Hosea 7](/study/hosea/7) [Hosea 9](/study/hosea/9) ## Commentary To verse 1 **He;**the king of Assyria, Shalmaneser, who carried Israel captive. **As an eagle;**swift, hungry, surmounting all difficulties, and which from above seizeth his prey; so shall the Assyrian army come. **Against;**or up to, as far as, so some, but it is better as here, **against. The house of the Lord;**either so called because the Israelites pretended their temples were not idols’ houses, but houses of Jehovah, and so the prophet for once calls them so, perhaps to intimate to that their sins would bring an enemy against those though they were indeed what they pretend them to be, the house of the Lord; or else by **house of the Lord** is meant the family of Israel, or the Israelitish church, which till unchurched might be called the house of the Lord: or it may be a sarcasm or irony against their wilful, brutish ignorance, who would not understand what was most plain, that his house was only at Jerusalem; or a softer derision of them, one of whose principal places of worship was Beth-el, which in signification is near the same with this in the text, house of God. **They have transgressed my covenant;**taken other gods instead of me, turned idolaters. **Trespassed against my law:** this explains and confirms the former; covenant and law are synonymous, and so are transgressing and trespassing. 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