Hosea 10:6

It shall he also carried unto Assyria for a present to King Jareb . Here we have an explanation and confirmation of what has just been said in the preceding verse. The calf, the glorious and magnificent national god, as Israel considered it, is brought to Assyria, and there offered as a present to the Assyrian king. The word gam is emphatic; that is, "it also," "itself also," or "it also with men and other spoils"—the golden idol of Beth-aven. Kimchi's explanation of gam is as follows: "Genesis, extension or generalization of the term, refers to the glory he bad mentioned. He says, 'Lo, in its place the glory shall depart from it as soon as they shall break it. Also, the stump of the calf, namely, the gold thereon, after its form is broken, they shall take away as a present to King Jareb.'" The sign of the accusative with suffix אוֹחו , which here stands before a passive verb, may be taken either

Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel. The feminine form, בָשְׁנָה —of which נּשֶׁן , the masculine, by analogy, is not in use—is wrongly explained by the Hebrew expositors as having a pleonastic nun . The construction usually preferred is

The counsel of which Israel would be ashamed is understood