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Hosea 7:15

Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, teaching them where to get and how to use their strength, yet do they imagine mischief against Me, by their idolatry and rebellion.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 15. _THOUGH I HAVE BOUND AND STRENGTHENED THEIR ARMS_] Whether I dealt with them in _judgment_ or _mercy_, it was all one; in all circumstances they rebelled against me....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THOUGH I HAVE BOUND - Rather, (as in the E. M) “And I have chastened, I have strenghened their arms, and they imagine mischief against Me.” God had tried all ways with them, but it was all one. He cha...

  • 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

    THOUGH. HAVE BOUND. Though I, even I, have warned (or instructed). Compare Psalms 18:34; Psalms 144:1....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Though I have bound and strengthened their arms_ Rather, I INDEED HAVE TRAINED AND STRENGTHENED THEIR ARMS. The Israelites had had a proof of this not long since when -Jehovah saw the affliction of I...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _ISRAEL REBELLED MORE AND MORE -- HOSEA 7:14-16:_ The rebellion of Israel against God has brought on devastation. God was their rightful king and ruler. He had always ruled fairly and with their good...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THOUGH I HAVE BOUND, &C.— _But I will chastise them. I strengthened their arms, yet did they,_ &c....

  • 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

    Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. THOUGH I HAVE BOUND AND STRENGTHENED THEIR ARMS - when I saw their arms as it were relaxed with various dis...

  • 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

    BOUND] RV 'taught,' by chastisement....

  • 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

    BOUND. — Should be _instructed._ God has imparted skill and power to fight their enemies. (Comp. Psalms 144:1.) So the grace of the Spirit is often slighted by its recipients....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ אֲנִ֣י יִסַּ֔רְתִּי חִזַּ֖קְתִּי זְרֹֽועֹתָ֑ם וְ...

  • 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)

    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...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Arms. I gave them my laws and power to resist the enemy. (Menochius)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • 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 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 again reproaches the Israelites for having in a base manner abused his goodness and forbearance. Some consider the verb יסר, _isar, _as meaning, “to chastise,” because God had disciplined the Isra...

  • 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

    THOUGH I HAVE BOUND [AND] STRENGTHENED THEIR ARMS,.... As a surgeon sets a broken arm and swathes and binds it, and so restores it to its former strength, or at least to a good degree of strength agai...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Though I have bound [and] strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. Ver. 15. _Though I have bound and strengthened their arms_] _Quum ego erudivi,_ so Pagnine, Polanus, and ot...

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

    _Though I have bound_, &c. Though, after bringing them low, I have given them new strength and vigour; _yet do they imagine mischief against me_ Yet they are continually devising some new idolatrous i...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    HAVE BOUND: Or, chastened...

  • 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

    THOUGH I; but as for me, or, And I. BOUND; or chastised, as the word will bear; or instructed; either notion will well suit the place. When I had chastised them for their sins, as in Jehoahaz's time,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 7:15 disciplined H3256 (H8765) strengthened H2388 (H8765) arms H2220 devise H2803 (H8762) evil H7451...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, Yet they do devise mischief against me.' And yet it was YHWH and not Baal Who had taught them and made their arms strong. This may refer to the fact...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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

    _Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against Me._ DIVINE DISPENSATIONS ABUSED I. God’s dispensations with men are characterised by variety. The events of hum...

  • 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 7:14 GASH THEMSELVES. Probably to call on Baal (see 1 Kings 18:28)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 7:15. BOUND] Weakened and relaxed, an image from surgery (_chastened_, marg.). “Instructing the arms, according to the analogy of Psalms 18:35, is equivalent to showing where an...

  • 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

    2 Corinthians 10:5; 2 Kings 13:23; 2 Kings 13:5; 2 Kings 14:25;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Bound — As a surgeon binds up a weak member, or a broken one; so did God for Ephraim, when the Syrians and other enemies had broken their arms. Imagine mischief — They devise mischief against my proph...

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