I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
I have written to him the great things of my law - (Deuteronomy 4:6; Deuteronomy 4:8, "What nation is there so great that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law?" Psalms 19:8; Psalms 119:18, "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law;" Psalms 119:72; Psalms 147:19-20). The textual reading is, 'the ten thousand things of my law.' The English version follows the Keri, or marginal Hebrew reading, which is not so well supported. The language here pre-supposes a general acquaintance with the Pentateuch in Israel, and shows that the written Pentateuch was in the kingdom of the Ten Tribes. For the expression is, not I have given him, but "I have written," or, rather, 'I write (implying the present obligation of the law once for all written) to him the ten thousand things of my law.' Not merely the Decalogue, but tile ten thousand details of duty laid down in the whole written law; the Decalogue written by God's own hand, and His will written manifoldly, "at sundry times and in divers manners" (Hebrews 1:1). The schools of the prophets in Bethel, Gilgal, and Samaria, confronting idolatry in their chief abodes, maintained still in Israel the teaching of the law and the pure worship. The godlier people went for religious instruction to Elisha and other prophets, on the new moons and Sabbaths (2 Kings 4:23). (Pusey.)
My law - as opposed to their inventions. This reference of Hoses to the Pentateuch alone is against the theory that some earlier written prophecies have not come down to us.
But they were counted as a strange thing - as if a thing with which they had nothing to do.