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Gill's Exposition
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good,.... Or "rejected him that is good" (y); that is, God, as Kimchi observes; for there is none good but him, Mat 19:17; he is the "summum bonum", "the…
Barnes' Notes
Israel has cast off the thing that is good - Or (since the word means “to cast off with abhorrence” “Israel hath east off and abhorred Good,” both “Him who is Good” and “that which is good.” The word…
The reproofs and threatenings here are introduced with an order to the prophet to set the trumpet to his mouth (Hos 8:1), thus to call a solemn assembly, that all might take notice of what he had to…
Cambridge Bible
The appeal is dismissed; Israel's piety is but superficial (comp. Hos 6:1-4); his -knowledge of God" is not that which Jehovah expects.
hath cast off Not merely put aside out of caprice, but (as the…
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