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<p class="tab-1">In this chapter we have, I. A high charge drawn up against both Israel and Judah for their sins, which were the ground of God’s controversy with them, <a class="bibleref" title="Hos.12.1,Hos.12.2" href="/passage/?search=Hos.12.1,Hos.12.2"><span class="bibleref" title="Hos.12.1">Hos. 12:1</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="Hos.12.2">2</span></a>. Particularly the sin of fraud and injustice, which Ephraim is charged with (<a class="bibleref" title="Hos.12.7" href="/passage/?search=Hos.12.7">Hos. 12:7</a>), and justifies himself in, <a class="bibleref" title="Hos.12.8" href="/passage/?search=Hos.12.8">Hos. 12:8</a>. And the sin of idolatry (<a class="bibleref" title="Hos.12.11" href="/passage/?search=Hos.12.11">Hos. 12:11</a>), by which God is provoked to contend with them, <a class="bibleref" title="Hos.12.14" href="/passage/?search=Hos.12.14">Hos. 12:14</a>. II. The aggravations of the sins they are charged with, taken from the honour God put upon their father Jacob (<a class="bibleref" title="Hos.12.3-Hos.12.5" href="/passage/?search=Hos.12.3-Hos.12.5">Hos. 12:3-5</a>), the advancement of them into a people from low and mean beginnings (<a class="bibleref" title="Hos.12.12,Hos.12.13" href="/passage/?search=Hos.12.12,Hos.12.13"><span class="bibleref" title="Hos.12.12">Hos. 12:12</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="Hos.12.13">13</span></a>), and the provision he had made them of helps for their souls by the prophets he sent them, <a class="bibleref" title="Hos.12.10" href="/passage/?search=Hos.12.10">Hos. 12:10</a>. III. A call to the unconverted to turn to God, <a class="bibleref" title="Hos.12.6" href="/passage/?search=Hos.12.6">Hos. 12:6</a>. IV. An intimation of mercy that God had in store for them, <a class="bibleref" title="Hos.12.9" href="/passage/?search=Hos.12.9">Hos. 12:9</a>.</p>