Hosea 8:14 meaning and explanation

Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.

Hosea 8:14, Berean Standard Bible

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Hosea 8:14 closes a chapter of indictment with a summary charge: Israel has forgotten his Maker. The Hebrew verb shakach means to forget in the sense of abandoning, not merely failing to remember.

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