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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Hosea 12:11

Idol. That is, if Galaad, with all its idols and sacrifices, be like a mere idol itself, being brought to nothing by Theglathphalassar, how vain is it to expect that the idols worshipped in Galgal shall be of any service to the tribes that remain. (Challoner) --- Will these idols be more powerful? Septuagint copies vary. Roman edition has Galaad, and Complutensian Galgal in both places. But that of St. Jerome and of Theodoret is better. --- Heaps of stones. They are in ruins, or very numerous: (Calmet) yet have not secured the country. (Haydock)

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See also Hosea 12:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 12:11. _INIQUITY_ IN _GILEAD_] Gilgal and Gilead are equally iniquitous, and equally idolatrous. Gilead, which was beyond Jordan, had already been brought under subjection by Tiglath-Piles...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IS THERE INIQUITY IN GILEAD? - The prophet asks the question, in order to answer it the more peremptorily. He raises the doubt, in order to crush it the more impressively. Is there “iniquity” in “Gile...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 11:12-12:14 THE INDICTMENT _ 1. Ephraim's indictment (Hosea 11:12; Hosea 12:1) _ 2. Remembrance of the past (Hosea 12:3) 3. What Israel had become ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    HOSEA 11:12 TO HOSEA 12:14 (= Hebrews 12:1). EPHRAIM'S INFIDELITY TRACED FROM THE BEGINNING. This is one of the most difficult passages in Hosea. In the text Judah also is mentioned; but this may be d...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    IS THERE INIQUITY. [Surely Gilead is] iniquity: supplying the _Ellipsis_ (App-6) from the next clause. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avert._ App-44. Not the same word as Hosea 12:8. GILEAD... GILGAL... HEAPS....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The ruin of two famous centres of idolatry, representing together the entire northern kingdom. _Is there iniquity_, &c. More probably, IF GILEAD IS (GIVEN TO) IDOLATRY, MERE VANITY SHALL THEY (THE GIL...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Not Israel, but Canaan should he be called; for his ideal is Canaan's. The end justifies the means, and his end is to become rich! But how bitterly will he be disappointed. He must in short begin his...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _ISRAEL PROVOKED GOD TO ANGER -- HOSEA 12:11-14:_ Gilead was a large area in Palestine known for producing many healing items but they had become terribly sinful. Now they will end up in ruin. Bulls w...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IS THERE INIQUITY, &C.— _If there was a vain religion in Gilead, certainly they are vain in Gilgal: They sacrifice bullocks; therefore their altars shall be,_ &c. Houbigant. The tribes beyond Jordan,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    REQUITINGEPHRAIM HAS PROVOKED TEXT: Hosea 12:7-14 7 He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields. IS THERE INIQUITY IN GILEAD? - Hebrew, 'vanity.'...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    12:11 vanity. (e-9) Or 'Is Gilead iniquity? They are altogether vanity.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    GILEAD.. GILGAL] both sanctuaries: see Hosea 4:15; Hosea 6:8. _Is there_ INIQUITY, etc.] RV 'Is Gilead iniquity? 'The question is only a rhetorical way of stating an astounding fact. 12. The idolatry...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A REPROOF OF COMMERCIAL DISHONESTY The Hebrew text divides the chapter more correctly at this v. The prophet returns to the subject of the unfaithfulness both of Israel and of Judah. They have sought...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 12 V1 There is much that the people of Israel do from morning to night. But it has no worth. They tell lies and they destroy thi...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    Translate, _If Gilead be worthless, surely they have become nought. In Gilgal they sacrificed bullocks; their altars also are like heaps upon the field’s furrows,_ referring to a past event, the desol...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Hosea 12:12]_ אִם ־גִּלְעָ֥ד אָ֨וֶן֙ אַךְ ־שָׁ֣וְא...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE FINAL ARGUMENT Hosea 12:1 - Hosea 14:1 THE impassioned call with which the last chapter closed was by no means an assurance of salvation: "How am I to give thee, up, Ephraim? how am I to let thee...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    TURN TO GOD, NOT TO SELFISH GAIN Hosea 11:12; Hosea 12:1-14 Though Judah still ruled with God, Hosea 11:12, yet there was grave fault in him, and, like Ephraim, which had been engaging the prophet's...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In the second movement Jehovah set the present sin in the light of His present love. The sin of Ephraim and the sin of Judah, if the marginal reading be adopted, are both declared. The sin of Ephraim...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    [Is there] (k) iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields. (k) The people thought that no man dare...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Prophet here follows up the just and becoming resolution which ought to take place in every heart of Jacob's children, whether Ephraim or Judah, in pursuing the steps of their father. And he goes...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    It is an ironical question, when the Prophet says, _Is there iniquity in Gilead ? _and he laughs to scorn their madness who delighted themselves in vices so gross, when their worship was wholly spurio...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The Spirit presents another aspect of the relationship of Israel with God. He would punish Ephraim, and the sins of Judah should be remembered. But He reminds them, that there was a time when Jacob co...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    [IS THERE] INIQUITY [IN] GILEAD?.... Idolatry there? strange that there should be, seeing it was a city of the priests; a city of refuge; or there is none there, say the priests, who pretended they di...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Hosea 12:11 [Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields. Ver. 11. _Is there iniquity in G...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Is there iniquity in Gilead?_ Or, _Was there idolatry in Gilead?_ as the word און often signifies. _Surely they are vanity, &c., in Gilgal_ The tribes settled about Gilead beyond Jordan, were already...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ANOTHER SERIOUS REPROACH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Is there iniquity in Gilead? Surely they are vanity, or, "If Gilead," representing the eastern half of the northern kingdom, "is worthlessness and iniquity," if it has reached the depths of moral ruin...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-14 Ephraim became a merchant: the word also signifies a Canaanite. They carried on trade upon Canaanitish principles, covetously and with fraud and deceit. Thus they became rich, and falsely suppos...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IS THERE INIQUITY IN GILEAD? in this concise interrogatory the prophet warns the refractory, ungodly Israelites by an example of God's wrath on them. About A.M. 326.1, at Ahaz's request and charges, T...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 12:11 Gilead H1568 sacrifice H2076 (H8765) bulls H7794 Gilgal H1537 altars H4196 heaps H1530 furrows H8525 fiel

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HAVING MADE HIS APPEAL FOR REPENTANCE HOSEA NOW INDICATES THAT EPHRAIM ARE SO CONFIDENT IN THEMSELVES THAT THEIR ONLY HOPE WILL BE AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN ‘BROUGHT DOWN A PEG OR TWO' (HOSEA 12:8). This p...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Is Gilead wicked? They are altogether false. In Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks, Yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.' His indictment of Israel continues. Is Gilead (represen...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Further reproof of Israel's sins. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Those who make creatures and things their confidence, put a cheat upon their own souls, and pr...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Hosea 12:4. _He found him in Bethel._ Christ, the angel, the mystical angel, or the Angel the Word, as St. Clemens of Alexandria calls him: so indeed do all the orthodox fathers. The church knows of n...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 12:2 Hosea recounts incidents from Israel’s past in order to display the Lord’s enduring kindness and Israel’s stubborn ingratitude. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] Hosea 12:11. Vanity] The question strengthens the affirmation. All was to no purpose. Warnings unheeded, altars as numerous as heaps of stones gathered out of the field, and scenes...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION In Hosea 12:1 God continues his complaint against Ephraim, charging them specially with the pursuit of vain and futile courses to their great detriment. Instead of repairing to the true and...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Ephraim feeds on the wind, and follows after the east wind: he daily increases lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians (Hsa Hosea 12:1), They tried to escape the destructi...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 17:1; 2 Kings 17:9; Amos 4:4; Amos 5:5; Hosea 10:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    In Gilead — Tiglah Pileser had formerly took Gilead among other towns, leading the inhabitants captive. By this the prophet minds the Ephraimites what they must expect, and doth it in this pungent que...

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