Hosea 12:8 meaning and explanation
And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”
Hosea 12:8, Berean Standard Bible
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Ephraim, the leading tribe of the northern kingdom, speaks here in the voice of a prosperous merchant. The people have grown wealthy through trade, and verse 7 has just described dishonest scales in the merchant's hands.
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