Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart, one which is too simple to notice the snare of the fowler. They call to Egypt, they go to Assyria, not realizing that the very nations whose help they invoked would prove their undoing.
Verse Hosea 7:11. _EPHRAIM ALSO IS LIKE A SILLY DOVE WITHOUT HEART_] A bird that has _little understanding_; that is _easily snared_ and taken; that is careless about its _own young_, and seems to li...
EPHRAIM IS - (become) like a silly dove “There is nothing more simple than a dove,” says the Eastern proverb. Simplicity is good or bad, not in itself, but according to some other qualities of the sou...
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...
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...
SILLY. harmless, innocent. _Ang. -Sax., saelig,_ happy they call, &c. See 2 Kings 15:19; 2 Kings 17:4. Compare Hosea 5:13; Hosea 9:3;...
_Ephraim also is like_ Rather, BUT EPHRAIM IS BECOME LIKE A SILLY DOVE WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING. This verse does not begin a fresh section, but is closely connected with the preceding. As a dove, fleeing...
_ISRAEL TRIED EVERYTHING BUT GOD -- HOSEA 7:11-13:_ Israel sought the strength of other nations as a replacement for their dependence upon God. Ephraim is like a silly dove. She does not have heart or...
EPHRAIM—IS LIKE A SILLY DOVE— Or, one which the fowler easily intercepts by his snares. Ephraim was deceived by the foolish counsels of those men, who are just before said to have their heads _besprin...
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...
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. EPHRAIM ALSO IS LIKE A SILLY DOVE - a bird proverbial for simplicity: easily deceived. SILLY - lit, open,...
7:11 understanding. (d-10) Lit 'heart,' 1 Kings 3:12 ....
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...
A SILLY DOVE] As the dove flies helplessly one way and another, so Israel turns to one power after another, only eventually to make enemies of both. The only recorded alliance with Egypt was that of H...
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....
SILLY DOVE. — No creature is less able to defend itself than the dove, which flies from the bird of prey to the net of the fowler. In this powerful metaphor we have a political allusion. King Hoshea i...
וַ יְהִ֣י אֶפְרַ֔יִם כְּ יֹונָ֥ה פֹותָ֖ה אֵ֣י
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
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...
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...
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...
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without (h) heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. (h) That is, without all judgment, as those that cannot tell whether it is better to cleave only to God, o...
CHAPTER VII. Decoyed. Hebrew, "stupid," chap. iv. 11. The dove is the only bird which is not grieved at the loss of its young. (St. Jerome) --- It returns to the same nest, though repeatedly robbed,...
We have here a continuation of the same subject, namely, the Lord's remonstrance with Israel. But I pray the Reader to observe, how many sweet and gracious expressions of our God are mingled with his...
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...
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,...
The Prophet here first blames Israel for foolish credulity, and compares them to a dove; for they had invited the Egyptians and sent to Assyria for help. Simplicity is indeed a commendable virtue, whe...
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...
EPHRAIM ALSO IS LIKE A SILLY DOVE, WITHOUT HEART,.... Or understanding; which comes and picks up the corns of grain, which lie scattered about, and does not know that the net is spread for it; and whe...
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. Ver. 11. _Ephraim also is like a silly dove_] That may be drawn any way for want of wit (so the word פיתה sign...
_Ephraim is like a silly dove without heart_ Which has neither courage to defend itself, nor cunning to prevent its falling into the snares that are laid for it. _They call to Egypt_, &c. Sometimes th...
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...
EPHRAIM: see HOSEA 7:1,8. IS LIKE A SILLY DOVE; a deceived dove, seduced by false prophets and idolatrous priests, whose weak arguments are soon believed, and whose unseasonable advice is too soon fol...
Hosea 7:11 Ephraim H669 silly H6601 (H8802) dove H3123 call H7121 (H8804) Egypt H4714 go H1980 ...
EPHRAIM (ISRAEL) ARE PICTURED AS A HAPLESS DOVE FLUTTERING BETWEEN EGYPT AND ASSYRIA AS THEY ENDEAVOUR TO AVOID YHWH'S NET (HOSEA 7:11). Ephraim are now depicted as being willing to do anything rather...
‘And Ephraim is like a silly dove, Without understanding, They call to Egypt, They go to Assyria.' Ephraim is depicted as a hapless, fluttering bird, which, ignorant of what was best for it (genuin...
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...
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...
_Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart._ A SILLY DOVE The race of Ephraim is not extinct. Men are to this day very much like what they were in the days of the prophets. I. A saintly simili...
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....
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 7:11. DOVE] A type of simplicity (Matthew 10:16). SILLY] Simplicity. WITHOUT HEART] Lit, without understanding, easily taken in the net (Ezekiel 12:13)....
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...
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...
2 Kings 15:19; 2 Kings 17:3; 2 Kings 17:4; Ezekiel 23:4; Hosea 11:11
Like a silly dove — Ephraim is now become like the dove in weakness and fear, as well as in imprudence and liableness to be deceived. Without heart — Without either discretion or courage. To Assyria —...