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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Hosea 7:8

Mixed, like oil and flour. (Hebrew) --- Ashes. Thin cakes (Calmet) of this kind are used by the poor, in Spain, (Sanctius) and by the Arabs. (Thevenot. Levant. xxxii.) --- Turned. There was no time allowed by the enemy, who came and took the Israelites away. (Calmet) -- They became like other nations, and would not repent. (Worthington)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 7:8. _A CAKE NOT TURNED._] In the East having heated the _hearth_, they sweep one corner, put the cake upon it, and cover it with embers; in a short time they _turn_ it, cover it again, an...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    EPHRAIM, HE HATH MIXED HIMSELF AMONG THE PEOPLE - i. e., with the pagan; he “mixed” or “mingled” himself among or with them, so as to corrupt himself, as it is said, “they were mingled among the pagan...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 7 The Moral Depravity of Israel _ 1. Their moral depravity (Hosea 7:1) _ 2. Mingling with heathen nations (Hosea 7:8) Hosea 7:1. All the gracious efforts of the Lord to heal Israel resulted...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    HOSEA 7:8 TO HOSEA 8:3. POLITICAL DECAY THE OUTWARD SIGN OF ISRAEL'S MORAL DECAY. The attempts to cure national ills and secure safety by foreign aid, instead of by turning to Yahweh, are foredoomed t...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    PEOPLE. peoples, or nations. A CAKE NOT TURNED: i.e.. thin (pan)cake, burnt one side and moist the other, and therefore uneatable....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The outward evidences of Israel's decay 8. _he hath mixed himself among the people_ Rather, HE MIXETH HIMSELF AMONG THE PEOPLES. How? By courting the favour now of Egypt, now of Assyria (Hosea 7:11)....

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _ISRAEL DID NOT CALL ON GOD -- HOSEA 7:7-10:_ The sins and iniquities of the people were so widespread that they engulfed judges and other leading men in society. Sin was popular and Israel did not ca...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1159 CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS OF SPIRITUAL DECAY Hosea 7:8. _Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people: Ephraim is a cake not turned. Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AMONG THE PEOPLE; EPHRAIM IS A CAKE, &C.— _Among the heathen,_ &c. This similitude of Ephraim to a _cake,_ is accommodated to the Hebrew word בלל _balal,_ rendered _mixed,_ and which properly signifie...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDELOVE OF SIN TEXT: Hosea 7:8-16 8 Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. EPHRAIM, HE HATH MIXED HIMSELF AMONG THE PEOPLE - by leagues with idolaters (see remarks on the beginning of this chap...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    CORRUPTION OF THE COURT In this chapter the tone again becomes despondent. How can Israel be saved when her iniquity is so deep, so glaring, so obstinate? Samaria is especially instanced as the centr...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    EPHRAIM, HE HATH MIXED HIMSELF AMONG THE PEOPLE] RV 'the peoples' or nations. Another fault, and another evidence of a want of patriotism, the tendency to court foreign alliances and foreign influence...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 7 V1 I want to heal my people Israel! Then people will know that *Ephraim has *sinned....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    CAKE NOT TURNED. — Referring to the destructive effect of foreign influences. Ephraim was consumed by the unhallowed fire of Baal-worship, with all its passion and sensualism — a cake burnt on one sid...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֶפְרַ֕יִם בָּ † עַמִּ֖ים ה֣וּא יִתְבֹּולָ֑ל אֶפְרַ֛יִם...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    A PEOPLE IN DECAY: 2. POLITICALLY Hosea 7:8 MORAL decay means political decay. Sins like these are the gangrene of nations. It is part of Hosea's greatness to have traced this, a proof of that versat...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    1. THE CONFUSION OF THE NATION Hosea 7:8; Hosea 8:1 Hosea begins by summing up the public aspect of Israel in two epigrams, short but of marvelous adequacy:-Hosea 7:8 "Ephraim-among the nations he...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    A PEOPLE IN DECAY: 1 MORALLY Hosea 4:1 - Hosea 7:7 PURSUING the plan laid down in the last chapter, we now take the section of Hosea's discourse which lies between chapter 4 and Hosea 7:7. Chapter 4...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    INIQUITY UNCOVERED Hosea 7:1-16 The last clause of the previous chapter belongs to this. God desired to turn aside the captivity of His people and to heal Israel, but His pleading was unavailing beca...

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

    The prophet then declared more particularly the true state of affairs. The divine desire to heal was frustrated by the pollution and the people's persistent ignoring of God. Hosea graphically describe...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Ephraim, he hath (f) mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. (f) That is, he counterfeited the religion of the Gentiles, yet is but as a cake baked on the one side, and raw on t...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I include all these verses under one view; for they are all to the same amount. They represent the same melancholy truth, only by different figures. The heart of man ready like an oven, always heated;...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE UNTURNED CAKE_ ‘Ephraim is a cake not turned.’ Hosea 7:8 Scripture is less a book for the schools than for the home. It is more colloquial than scientific; its terms are less technical than po...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    IX. HOSEA 7:8-9 (NASB) EPHRAIM MIXES HIMSELF WITH THE NATIONS; EPHRAIM HAS BECOME A CAKE NOT TURNED. 9 STRANGERS DEVOUR HIS STRENGTH, YET HE DOES NOT KNOW [IT]; GRAY HAIRS ALSO ARE SPRINKLED ON HIM,...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    God now complains, that Ephraim, whom he had chosen to be a peculiar possession to himself, differed nothing from other nations. The children of Abraham, we know, had been adopted by God for this end,...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7. Chapter 6 calls forth a touching address from the prophet, in which he entreats the people to return to Jehovah. Faith has always this resource, beca...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    EPHRAIM, HE HATH MIXED HIMSELF AMONG THE PEOPLE,.... Either locally, by dwelling among them, as some of them at least might do among the Syrians; or carnally, by intermarrying with them, contrary to t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. Ver. 8. _Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people_] viz. in confederacies, marriages, manners, superstitions. The...

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

    _Ephraim, he hath mixed among the people_ By his alliances with the heathen, and by imitation of their manners, he is himself become one of them. He has thrown off all the distinctions, and forfeited...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people, by entering into friendships with heathen nations, adopting their ways and serving their idols. EPHRAIM IS A CAKE NOT TURNED, like a pancake burned on...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE MORAL CORRUPTION OF ISRAEL...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-16 Israel was as a cake not turned, half burnt and half dough, none of it fit for use; a mixture of idolatry and of the worship of Jehovah. There were tokens of approaching ruin, as grey hairs are...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    EPHRAIM; the kingdom of Israel. HATH MIXED HIMSELF AMONG THE PEOPLE, by leagues and commerce, by imitation of their manners, and by either entertaining their gods, and sacrificing to them, or at least...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 7:8 Ephraim H669 mixed H1101 (H8704) peoples H5971 Ephraim H669 cake H5692 unturned H2015 (H8803) he ha

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    IN TURNING TO FOREIGN NATIONS FOR THEIR SUPPORT INSTEAD OF TURNING TO YHWH, EPHRAIM DO NOT REALISE WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES WILL BE (HOSEA 7:8). Hosea now parodies the people's attempts to find help from...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Ephraim, he mixes himself among the peoples, Ephraim is a cake not turned.' The use of ‘Ephraim' may indicate a time when what was mainly left of Israel was that part which was on the mountain of Ep...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Hosea 7:8 There is something in the character of some men which resembles a burnt loaf: a cake left too long with one side exposed to the fire till it has caught and been scorched, while the other si...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jehovah's response to Israel's, cry, continued. Israel's sad state. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If sinful souls are not healed and helped, but perish in their sin and misery, they cannot...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Hosea 7:1. _When I would have healed Israel,_ by Jehu's zeal for the Lord, then the idolatrous priests, like troops of robbers, gathered round him with lies in their mouth, and persuaded him to retain...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned._ MORAL DECLENSION Much real pain is caused, to a rightly constituted mind, by the failure of fondly cherished anticipa...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 7:4 Hosea compares Israel to an oven (vv. Hosea 7:4), a half-baked cake (vv. Hosea 7:8), a silly dove (vv....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 7:8 MIXES HIMSELF WITH THE PEOPLES. Israel’s spiritual unfaithfulness has made it no different from the pagan nations. A CAKE NOT TURNED. That is, half-baked, not fit for eating....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 7:8. MIXED] by leagues and adoption of idolatrous customs. The Heb. indicates a mixing which disorders and involves confusion. A CAKE] burned at the bottom and sad at the top,—...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This chapter may be divided into three sections. In the first section, including Hosea 7:1, the prophet reproves with much but deserved severity the depraved morals of king and princes. In...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The Lord continues His response to them. When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 18:21; Ezekiel 23:4; Ezra 9:1; Ezra 9:12; Hosea 5:13;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Ephraim — The kingdom of Israel. Mixed himself — With the Heathens by leagues and commerce and by imitation of their manners. Not turned — Burnt on one side, and dough on the other, and so good for no...

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