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  1. First commandment, once again<\/em>. In verse 4, as in the last chapter, there is a declaration of faith that opens the Decalogue: \u201cI am the LORD your God.\u201d This reminds us that, ever since the founding of the Kingdom of Israel, this declaration, in a very problematic formulation, has been heard in the Israelite temples: \u201cSo the king (Jeroboam, founder of the Kingdom of Israel) took counsel and made two golden calves. He said to the people…This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!\u201d He set up one in Bethel and placed the other in Dan.\u201d (I Kings 12:28-29).<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Too good is no good<\/em>. The idea that there is a danger when things go too well – a danger of overweening pride, or callousness, is familiar to us from the book of Deuteronomy (ch. 8), and Hosea expresses it as well: \u201cWhen they grazed, they were sated; When they were sated, they grew haughty; And so they forgot Me.\u201d (verse 6).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Careful – predators!<\/em> In verses 7-8 are the scariest beasts who wandered around the Samarian hills during biblical times: \u201clion\u2026 leopard\u2026 bear robbed of her young\u2026 beasts of the field.\u201d You wouldn\u2019t want to meet any of those on the road – not even as a metaphor.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. From friend to foe; and from protective shepherd, to threat<\/em>. Comparing God to a predatory animal doesn\u2019t just relate to His wrath or intent. It also symbolizes how God has switched sides. From a shepherd who used to watch his flock, and protect it from danger, to being the danger itself.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Told you so<\/em>. 273 chapters ago (I Sam. 8), the people demanded of Samuel a king. It went like this: \u201cappoint a king for us, to govern us!\u201d Hosea references this, and doesn\u2019t exactly express sympathy for the failure of the institution of kingship. He\u2019s more in the direction of \u201cI told you so!\u201d You made this bed – now you lie in it.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. That\u2019s how it sounds in the North country<\/em>. If there are words or even whole sentences that you didn\u2019t understand in this chapter, or in the previous ones, you\u2019re not alone. Many are of the opinion that Hosea, the Israelite prophet, spoke a northern dialect that is less known to us, speakers of Judahite Biblical Hebrew. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","image":{"ID":53645,"id":53645,"title":"general-qs-points to ponder","filename":"general-qs-points-to-ponder.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/general-qs-points-to-ponder.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/points-to-ponder-chapter-9\/general-qs-points-to-ponder\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"general-qs-points-to-ponder","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":53644,"date":"2019-04-13 21:49:41","modified":"2019-04-13 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