Discovery BoxHosea 8:1 
ContextGod Will Raise Up the Assyrians to Attack Israel
An eagle 2 looms over the temple of the Lord!
For they have broken their covenant with me, 3
and have rebelled against my law.
Hosea 10:9
ContextFailure to Learn from the Sin and Judgment of Gibeah
10:9 O Israel, you have sinned since the time 4 of Gibeah,
and there you have remained.
Did not war overtake the evildoers in Gibeah?
1 tn Heb “A horn unto your gums!”; NAB “A trumpet to your lips!”
2 tn Or perhaps “A vulture.” Some identify the species indicated by the Hebrew term נֶשֶׁר (nesher) as the griffon vulture (cf. NEB, NRSV).
3 tn Heb “my covenant” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “the covenant I made with them.”
4 tn Heb “days” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).
