Hosea 6:10

“I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel, etc.] Idolatry, the calves set up at Daniel and Bethel, which God saw with abhorrence and detestation; or the prophet saw it, and it made his hair stand on end as it were, as the wordf126 signifies, that such wickedness should be committed by a professing people: there [is] the whoredom of Ephraim; in the house of Israel is the whoredom of Jeroboam, who was of the tribe of Ephraim, and caused Israel to sin, to go a whoring after idols; or the whoredom of the tribe of Ephraim, which belonged to the house of Israel, and even of all the ten tribes; both corporeal and spiritual whoredom, or idolatry, are here meant: Israel is defiled; with…”

“horrible thing-- (Jer 5:30; Jer 18:13; Jer 23:14). whoredom--idolatry.”

“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 the house of Israel - o: “For what more horrible, more amazing than that this happened, not in any ordinary nation but “in the house of Israel,” in the people of God, in the portion of the Lord, as Moses said, “the Lord’s portion is His people, Jacob is the lot of His inheritance?” In another nation, idolatry was error. In Israel, which had the knowledge of the one true God and had received the law, it was horror.” “There is the whoredom of Ephraim,” widespread, over the whole land, wherever…”

“The whoredom - Idolatry. Of Ephraim - Which was brought in by an Ephraimite, by Jeroboam, two hundred years ago, and is there still. Israel is defiled - It hath overspread all Israel. Hosea 6:11”

“6:10 something horrible: The prophet uses this rare word (also in Jer 18:13) to describe the depth of Israel’s sin in breaking God’s covenant and betraying his trust.”

“Jer 2:12, Jer 2:13, Jer 5:30, Jer 5:31, Jer 18:13, Jer 23:14 there: Hos 4:11, Hos 4:17, Hos 5:3; Kg1 12:8, Kg1 15:30; Kg2 17:7; Jer 3:6; Eze 23:5 Hosea 6:11”