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Chapter 8 begins with an image of an impending attack.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The watchmen rush to the towers to sound the shofar alarm as \"the enemy swoops like an eagle\". This dramatic image of terrifying birds swooping down on the fortified cities is strong by itself. However, Hosea could also be providing a secondary allusion. Way back in Exodus 19:4 during the giving of the Torah, God provides a striking image of the Exodus from Egypt: \"You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, how I bore you on eagles\u2019 wings and brought you to Me.\"\u00a0 In this metaphor, God uses majestic eagles to whisk the Israelites from bondage in Egypt.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This phrase \"wings of Eagles\" (kanfei nesharim<\/em>) was so powerful, it was used as the name of one of the missions to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel. It is therefore no wonder that Hosea turns this image on its head in this chapter. The eagles that at one time saved the Israelites will now lead the attack against the nation. Instead of a tool of God's protection, the eagles have now become agents for God's destruction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Hosea begins chapter 8 with a cry to sound the shofar, a warning of impending danger (just as he did in 5:8). He looks to the sky, and sees a vulture leisurely circling, waiting for the opportune moment to swoop down and carry off its dinner. He mentions that the target is \"the house of God\", which caused some questions among the commentators because though Hosea's main audience is the northern kingdom (as seen is verses 5 and 6, where he lambasts them for relying on the golden calves they built in Dan and Beit El), the house of God, the Temple, is located in the southern kingdom, in Jerusalem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The simple understanding is that Hosea generally uses the phrase \"the house of God\" to describe the land of Israel (9:8, 9:15). Abrabanel maintains the simple meaning of the words, but interprets Hosea as speaking about Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians, who invaded Judah in 586 BCE and destroyed the Temple.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, the commentators find different ways to understand the opening command. According to Rashi, God is speaking to Hosea, telling him that he should raise his voice like a shofar and direct his words to the enemies of the Jewish nation, and proclaim to them in God's name, \"Hurry! Fly like an eagle and swoop down upon God's house!\" Others (Ibn Ezra, Malbim) suggest that the eagle in the phrase refers to Hosea himself. He should fly up to the Temple Mount where he should admonish the Jewish people for their transgressions.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, the main theme is Hosea's explanation for the impending disaster. \"Because they have transgressed My covenant And been faithless to My teaching\" (verse 1). God declares that the Jewish people have broken their mutual covenant, due to Israel's unfaithfulness and turning to other gods. While the majority of commentators view the word Torah as equivalent to the Covenant, Alshich interprets it as specifically referring to Torah study, based on a fascinating statement in the Jerusalem Talmud that God is so patient and forgiving that he is willing to countenance even the violations of the cardinal sins of murder, idolatry, and adultery. However, when Torah study is stopped, then the chance of the Jewish people improving has disappeared. Everything else that Hosea lists in the rest of the chapter, the political instability and the idolatry, remains secondary to this failure.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In <\/span>our comments on Chapter 5<\/span><\/a>, we offered an interpretation of a problematic verse (2) that presumed a slight error in the transmission of the Masoretic Text. A similarly difficult verse is 8:6. The tricky part consists of the first three words in Hebrew: <\/span>ki miyisrael vehu<\/span><\/em> (the cantillation\/punctuation marks\u2014<\/span>ta`amei hamikra<\/span><\/em>\u2014indicate that they are one syntactic unit), whose literal translation would be: \u201cFor from Israel and he\/it;\u201d hardly literate, let alone comprehensible. The old JPS translation (1916) has: \u201c<\/span>For from Israel is even this,\u201d the New JPS r<\/span>eads: \u201cFor it was Israel\u2019s doing,\u201d and ArtScroll has: \u201cFor [it is] from Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The pronouns \u201cit\u201d and \u201cthis\u201d refer, here, to the \u201ccalf of Samaria\u201d at the end of the verse, and it would be understood, with Rashi, as: \u201c[The calf] was made from the silver and gold of each and every one of [Israel].\u201d As for the telltale <\/span>vav<\/span><\/em> of <\/span>vehu<\/span><\/em> (\"<\/span>and<\/span> it\"), Rashi and Kara (relying on Dunash Ibn Labrat) were content to \u201cdrop\u201d it from the word, which can be understood either as the acceptance of\u00a0 textual emendation (correction), or as an instruction to simply ignore it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moderns, as in the case of 5:2, are more inclined to regard our received Masoretic text as imperfect and susceptible to human error in its transmission. While not changing even a single consonant but only slightly altering the vocalization, they would transform <\/span>ki miyisrael<\/span><\/em> into <\/span>ki mi shor el<\/span><\/em>: \u201cIs an ox a god?\u201d\u2014a rhetorical question to which the continuation of the verse is the answer: <\/span>vehu charash asahu<\/span><\/em>, \u201c[no,] it was made by a sculptor;\u201d <\/span>velo elohim hu<\/span><\/em>, \u201cit cannot be a deity;\u201d <\/span>ki shovavim yiheyeh egel shomron<\/span><\/em>, \u201c[and the proof is] the calf of Samaria will be [smashed to] smithereens.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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8:9 \u201c\u2018For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass on its own is Ephraim, they have made courtship\u2019s plea.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The wild ass figures in biblical poetry as a creature that cannot be tamed, living solitary in the wilderness. Israel\u2019s seeking an accommodation with Assyria (represented here as a courtship) manifests its proclivity to go it alone, ignoring both prudent council and God\u2019s instructions.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Life imitates art<\/em>. In chapter 2, in the parable of the adulterous woman, we read that she returned home reluctantly, is not welcomed, and in fact is severely punished. That\u2019s what\u2019s described here. \u201cThe lovers\u201d are the idolatrous cult and the alliances with foreign powers who failed the kingdom. She shouts \u201csave me!\u201d and \u201cthere is a God!\u201d But now is the time for punishment, not conciliation.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Is it a problem of kings - or the kingship<\/em>? Is the criticism that is voiced here regarding the kings of Samaria meant to be personal, castigating unworthy monarchs? Or is it a more principled approach, about the entire system, the kingship? We can find both approaches among commentators and scholars.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. A calf of Samaria<\/em>. The cult of calves as divine service in the kingdom of Israel, was founded at the beginning of the kingdom by Jeroboam ben Navat (that was more than 200 years, and 209 chapters ago - I Kings 12). We learn from the phrasing here that this cult had become almost a symbol of the kingdom itself (\u201cthe calf of Samaria\u00a0 - verse 6). But, of course, that is not a way to worship God - but idolatry, the work of their own hands, that has no value or sense.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. \u201cStanding stalks devoid of ears And yielding no flour<\/em>\u201d (verse 7). A big investment - but in the wrong direction. That\u2019s the tragedy of the kingdom of Israel. They are just bad in every department. In their leadership, society, their religious life, and in the political realm. 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