Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread.
Conformity of punishment to sin
They had sinned in excess, and God would take away their plenty. Hos_13:6, “According to their pasture, so were they filled”; they had full pastures, fed largely, exalted their hearts, and thought they should never want; they forgot God in their fulness, and He made them to remember Him in a famine. Fulness of bread was the sin of Sodom, and the sin of Jerusalem also. God brake the staff of bread. They sinned in defiling themselves with idols, and offered meal and oil, honey and flour, for a sweet savour to their idols (Eze_16:1-63), and now they must eat polluted bread among the Gentiles. (W. Greenhill, M. A.)
