Hosea 6:10

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel,.... Idolatry, the calves set up at Dan and Bethel, which God saw with abhorrence and detestation; or the prophet saw it, and it made his hair…

I have seen a horrible thing - Literally, “what would make one shudder.” God had seen it; therefore man could not deny it. In the sight of God, and amid the sense of His presence, all excuses fail. In…

I have seen a horrible thing - That is, the idolatry that prevailed in Israel to such a degree that the whole land was defiled.

Two things, two evil things, both Judah and Ephraim are here charged with, and justly accused of: -

I. That they were not firm to their own convictions, but were unsteady, unstable as water, Hos 6:4,…

Jehovah is still the speaker. From his heavenly -place" he points indignantly (as Hos 6:6) to the abominations practised -there", i.e. in the whole land of Israel, for even Judah has not escaped the…