House of Israel. — This phrase means Ephraim and Judah subsequently discriminated. The “horrible thing” refers to polluting idolatry. This peculiar word occurs again in Jeremiah. According to the punctuation of the Hebrew the reciter hesitates before pronouncing the “horrible thing” which grated through his teeth.
Related Commentaries of Hosea 6:10
Hosea 6:10
10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.