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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Hosea 10:3

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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now, &c.--Soon they, deprived of their king, shall be reduced to say, We have no king (Hos 10:7, Hos 10:15), for Jehovah deprived us of him, because of our not fearing God. What then (seeing God is against us) should a king be able to do for us, if we had one? As they rejected the heavenly King, they were deprived of their earthly king.
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