George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Hosea 12:2
Judgment. Hebrew, "trial." What follows refers to all the people, whose impiety is contrasted with Jacob's virtue.
Judgment. Hebrew, "trial." What follows refers to all the people, whose impiety is contrasted with Jacob's virtue.
Verse Hosea 12:2. _THE LORD HATH ALSO A CONTROVERSY WITH JUDAH_] The rest of the prophecy belongs both to Judah and Israel. He reproaches both with their ingratitude, and threatens them with God's an...
THE LORD HATH ALSO A CONTROVERSY WITH JUDAH, AND WILL PUNISH JACOB - The guilt of Judah was not open apostasy, nor had he filled up the measure of his sins. Of him, then, God saith only, that He “had...
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 ...
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...
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. PUNISH. visit upon. JACOB. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for Israel, especially the natural seed. ACCORDING. Some codices, with two ear...
_Jacob_ Here used for the northern kingdom, to prepare the way for the etymological allusion in Hosea 12:3....
_GOD'S CONTROVERSY WITH ISRAEL AND JUDAH -- HOSEA 12:1-4:_ Israel was wasting her time on that which had no spiritual substance. It was like feeding on the wind. It was an "east" wind or a wind off of...
LOVE REBUKING REQUITINGEPHRAIM HAS PROVOKED TEXT: Hosea 12:1-6 1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant...
The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. THE LORD HATH ALSO A CONTROVERSY WITH JUDAH - (; , "The Lor...
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...
JACOB] as before used to introduce the personal history of the Patriarch, from which Hosea seeks to draw an analogous lesson for the people. Jacob had begun life by cunningly supplanting his brother,...
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...
JACOB refers to the northern kingdom....
_[Hosea 12:3]_ וְ רִ֥יב לַֽ יהוָ֖ה עִם...
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...
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...
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...
The LORD hath also a controversy with (c) Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. (c) Which in those points was similar to Ephraim, but not...
Here the whole tribes or Israel and Juda are reproved. The Lord shows to what a degenerate state the both families were brought, and how different from the conduct of their first common father Jacob....
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...
It may seem strange that the Prophet should now say, that God _had a controversy with Judah; _for he had before said, that Judah stood faithful with the saints. It seems indeed inconsistent, that God...
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...
THE LORD HATH ALSO A CONTROVERSY WITH JUDAH,.... The two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, as well as the ten tribes; for though they had ruled with God, and had been faithful with the saints in the first...
The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. Ver. 2. _The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah_] Lest t...
_Ephraim feedeth on wind_ Flatters himself with vain, delusive hopes, of receiving effectual support from the alliances which he forms. It is a proverbial expression to signify labour in vain, or purs...
THE LORD'S ACCUSATION...
The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah, a contest to be decided in a court of law, by a formal suit, AND WILL PUNISH JACOB, the ten northern tribes, ACCORDING TO HIS WAYS; ACCORDING TO HIS DOINGS...
PUNISH: _ Heb._ visit upon...
1-6 Ephraim feeds himself with vain hopes of help from man, when he is at enmity with God. The Jews vainly thought to secure the Egyptians by a present of the produce of their country. Judah is conte...
THE LORD HATH ALSO A CONTROVERSY WITH JUDAH; though Judah, compared with Ephraim, be faithful, yet when considered in his ways and doings he is found faulty in many things, and God hath just matter of...
Hosea 12:2 LORD H3068 charge H7379 Judah H3063 punish H6485 (H8800) Jacob H3290 ways H1870 deeds H4611 recompense...
AN APPEAL IS MADE TO JACOB'S EXAMPLE WHICH SIMPLY SERVES TO REVEAL ISRAEL'S PARLOUS STATE AND GUARANTEES THE COMING JUDGMENT OF DESTRUCTION AND THE EXILE BUT IT IS WITH THE PROMISE OF FINAL RESTORATIO...
‘YHWH has also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob in accordance with his ways, according to his doings will he recompense him.' But as ever Hosea also remembers the visits by men of Judah...
YHWH MAKES A FURTHER APPEAL TO EPHRAIM AND JUDAH ON THE BASIS OF WHAT THEIR ANCESTOR JACOB DID (HOSEA 12:1). Having first stressed Ephraim's total folly and unacceptable deceitfulness, and the fact th...
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...
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...
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. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Hosea 12:1. Feed] To eat or graze. WIND] What is empty and vain; to hunt after nothing, labour in vain. EAST] A fierce and destructive wind, oppressive and violent (Job 27:21); figur...
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...
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...
2 Kings 17:19; 2 Kings 17:20; Ezekiel 23:11; Ezekiel 23:31;...
Jacob — Ephraim and Judah are of Jacob, both have corrupted themselves, and therefore I will proceed against both....