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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Hosea 5:3

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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5:3 you are utterly defiled: The word translated defiled is used frequently in the Pentateuch to describe ritual uncleanness, a physical condition that disqualified a person from worshiping God in the Temple (Lev 11–15). The prophets used the concept as a metaphor for Israel’s moral uncleanness as the result of her idolatry (Isa 6:5; Mic 2:10).
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