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Hosea 10:3

For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?

For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord; what then should a king do to us? - rather, 'for us.' Soon they, deprived of their king, shall be reduced to say, We have no king (; ), for Yahweh deprived us of him, because of our not fearing God. What then (seeing God is against us) should a king be able to do for us, if we had one? Since they rejected the heavenly King, they were deprived of their earthly king.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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