7The businessmen engage in wholesale fraud. They love to rip people off!
8Ephraim boasted, "Look, I''m rich! I''ve made it big! And look how well I''ve covered my tracks: not a hint of fraud, not a sign of sin!"b
Hosea 12 is a courtroom scene where God, through the prophet, indicts Israel (called both Ephraim and Jacob) for a history of deceit that stretches back to their ancestor Jacob himself. The chapter weaves together the patriarch's story — his wrestling, his weeping, his encounter
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