Hosea 10:5. The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven:
Why, those calves are their trust. They rely upon those images of false gods - those images which they set up in the place of the true God. Pretending thereby to worship him, they trusted in these; and now they shall become their fear. He who will have a confidence apart from God will find his confidence soured into a fear before long. Your greatest ground of distress will be that which was once the ground of your reliance apart from God.
Hosea 10:5. The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven:
Why, those calves are their trust. They rely upon those images of false gods - those images which they set up in the place of the true God. Pretending thereby to worship him, they trusted in these; and now they shall become their fear. He who will have a confidence apart from God will find his confidence soured into a fear before long. Your greatest ground of distress will be that which was once the ground of your reliance apart from God.