Book of Hosea Chapter 4 Vs. 2

 The Lord Accuses Israel

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. Hos. 4:2

swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing...

Fifty-five Sins of Israel in Hosea

1. Whoredom, including all forms of sex perversions before idols (Hos. 1:2; 2:2-4; 4:10-18; 5:3-4; 6:10)

2. Adultery (Hos. 2:2; 3:1; 4:2; 7:4)

3. Unfaithfulness (Hos. 2:3, 2:13; 6:7; 8:11)

4. Willful ignorance (Hos. 2:8; 4:1; 5:4; 6:6; 11:3)

5. Idolatry (Hos. 2:8-13; 4:12-17; 5:11; 6:8; 8:4-11; 9:1; 10:1-9; 11:2; 13:1-2)

6. Hypocrisy (Hos. 2:11; 4:8; 6:6; 8:13-14; 9:4)

7. Forgetting God (Hos. 2:13; 8:14; 13:6)

8. Lustfulness (Hos. 2:5; 9:1)

9. Unthankfulness (Hos. 2:8; 11:3-4)

10. Swearing (Hos. 4:2)

11. Lying (Hos. 4:2; 7:1, 7:3, 7:13; 10:13; 11:12)

12. Murder (Hos. 4:2; 6:9)

13. Stealing (Hos. 4:2)

14. Forgetting God’s law (Hos. 4:6)

15. Rebellion (Hos. 4:6; 7:13; 8:3; 13:16)

16. Backsliding and apostasy (Hos. 4:7-8, 4:16; 5:2; 7:10; 9:1, 9:15; 11:7)

17. Unmerciful (Hos. 4:1; 6:6)

18. Eating the sin offering (Hos. 4:8)

19. Setting the heart on sin (Hos. 4:8)

20. Inquiring of idols (Hos. 4:12)

21. Divining with rods (Hos. 4:12)

22. Treachery (Hos. 5:7; 6:7)

23. Pride (Hos. 5:5; 7:10; 10:13; 13:6)

24. Lewdness (Hos. 6:9-10)

25. Injustice (Hos. 7:7)

26. Prayerlessness (Hos. 7:7, 7:10, 7:14)

27. Hardness of heart (Hos. 7:6)

28. Scorning (Hos. 7:5)

29. Drunkenness (Hos. 7:5)

30. Indifference (Hos. 7:2; 10:12)

31. Hating God (Hos. 7:13, 7:15; 9:7-9)

32. Plunder (Hos. 7:1)

33. Surmising (Hos. 7:15)

34. Deceit (Hos. 7:16; 11:12)

35. Having an unruly tongue (Hos. 7:16)

36. Being past feeling (Hos. 7:11)

37. Being obstinate (Hos. 7:10, 7:14; 11:5)

38. Unbelief (Hos. 8:14)

39. Irreverence (Hos. 8:12; 10:3)

40. Making altars to sin (Hos. 8:11)

41. Being self-willed (Hos. 8:4; 10:13)

42. Bribery (Hos. 9:1)

43. Eating unclean things (Hos. 9:3)

44. Sodomy (Hos. 9:9)

45. Allowing themselves to be misled (Hos. 9:7-9)

46. Selfishness (Hos. 10:1, 10:13)

47. Fruitlessness (Hos. 10:1)

48. Double-mindedness (Hos. 10:2)

49. Perjury (Hos. 10:4)

50. Ignoring God (Hos. 11:7)

51. Making unholy alliances (Hos. 12:1)

52. Provoking God (Hos. 12:4)

53. Covetousness (Hos. 12:8)

54. Self-defense (Hos. 13:9)

55. Acting unwisely (Hos. 13:13)

Note the many infractions of the Ten Commandments (Exo. 20:3-17).

Again, we see so much of this in our society today, that there is not enough jail cells to hold the criminals. It is interesting to me, that this begins with swearing. In the loose society we live in, this has become so commonplace, it is not even considered a crime anymore. There was a time, when swearing got a person tied to a whipping post for 10 or 15 lashes of a whip.

When people are out of the will of God, they commit all of these things and many more. Drugs and alcohol add to the immense number of crimes committed. Even drugs and alcohol is a sign of a society out of fellowship with God.

They failed to exhibit faithfulness and love (ḥeseḏ; cf. Hos. 2:19) and did not acknowledge God as their covenant Lord. (Acknowledgment translates dā‛aṯ, related to yāḏa‛, “to know”; cf. comments on Hos. 2:20.) Instead they blatantly disobeyed the Decalogue, which epitomized God’s ideal for Israelite society. Violations of five of the Ten Commandments are specifically mentioned: cursing, lying (cf. Hos. 7:1; 12:1), murder, stealing, and adultery (commandments 3, 9, 6, 8, and 7, in that order). “Cursing” does not refer to improper speech as such, but to calling down a curse on another (cf. Job. 31:30). Because such imprecations (for Israelite's) entailed invoking God’s name, they would be violating the third commandment when such an imprecation was unjustified (Exo. 20:7; Deut. 5:11; for an example of a justifiable curse invoking the Lord’s name, see Num. 5:19-23).