Hosea 8:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Because Ephraim hath made, &c.— This verse may be thus paraphrased: "Since Ephraim, forsaking God, and that one altar, at which alone he required them to serve him, idolatrously multiplied altars to themselves,—altars against his command; (to do which was manifestly a sin in them;) therefore should those their beloved altars be accordingly occasions of great sin; and as such imputed to them to their condemnation. God would give them up to run on in their evil courses, till their iniquity was full, and they ripe for destruction; and then deliver them into the hands of their enemies, who should compel them to do that service at and to their idolatrous altars, which should appear a manifest punishment so them for those of their own. So should they be punished by that wherein they had offended." See Pococke.