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Verse Hosea 8:9. _THEY ARE GONE UP TO ASSYRIA_] For succour.
_A WILD ASS ALONE BY HIMSELF_] Like that animal, jealous of its
liberty, and suffering no rival. If we may credit _Pliny_ and others,
one...
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FOR THEY ARE GONE UP TO ASSYRIA - The ground of this their captivity
is that wherein they placed their hope of safety. They shall be
presently swallowed up; “for” they went to Asshur. The holy land
be...
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CHAPTER 8:1-9:9
The Apostasy is Followed by Judgment
_ 1. The judgment announced (Hosea 8:1) _
2. The apostasy which resulted in judgment (Hosea 8:8)
3. Warning against self-security (Hosea 9:1)...
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ISRAEL'S UNSANCTIFIED NATIONAL LIFE. Man-made kings, like man-made
gods (the calf of Samaria), are impotent; Israel sows the wind and
shall reap the whirlwind; the sources of the national life are
wit...
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GONE UP. Compare Hosea 5:13; Hosea 7:11.
A. [as] a. wild ass. Compare Isaiah 1:3.
HIRED LOVERS. paid the love-fee. Comparing idolatry to whoredom.
Compare...
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The judgment is already begun; Israel has drawn it upon himself, by
dallying with Assyria, by religious abuses, and by a vain confidence
in fortified cities....
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_gone up_ Used, like ἀναβαίνω, of going inland (-up the
country").
_a wild ass alone by himself_ Rather, A WILD ASS TAKING HIS OWN WAY BY
HIMSELF. The point of comparison is obstinacy. The wild ass is...
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_ISRAEL MADE ALTARS TO SIN -- HOSEA 8:8-11:_ Idolatry brought
spiritual ruin upon Israel. The idolatry of Israel had ruined that
nation and the gentile nations considered them worthless. "They be
amon...
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FOR THEY ARE GONE UP TO ASSYRIA— These verses are connected with
that preceding, and are thus translated by Houbigant: _Because they go
to the Assyrian, though the Assyrian is nothing more than a wild...
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TEXT: Hosea 8:8-14
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Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel
wherein none delighteth.
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For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself:
Ephraim hath h...
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For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim
hath hired lovers.
FOR THEY ARE GONE UP TO ASSYRIA - referring to Menahem's application
for Pul's aid in establishing him, on t...
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HIRED LOVERS] with reference to the tribute paid to Tiglath-pileser by
Menahem (cp. Hosea 7:9), and the attempts made by others to coquet
with Egypt.
10. This courting of foreign princes will be of n...
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THE LONG-MERITED RETRIBUTION
The enemy is coming immediately to destroy their temples and palaces
and desolate the land, and as a punishment for their idolatry and
disloyalty to God. In vain will the...
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THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING
HOSEA
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 8
GOD IS ANGRY WITH ISRAEL BECAUSE SHE PRAYS TO *IDOLS
V1 Put a *trumpet to your lips and warn people!
An *eagle is over the *L...
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GONE UP TO ASSYRIA. — The word thus translated is elsewhere used for
“going up” to the sanctuary of the Lord. (See Note on Hosea 7:11.)
_Wild ass_ is the image of untamed waywardness (Job 39:5, _sea._...
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כִּֽי ־הֵ֨מָּה֙ עָל֣וּ אַשּׁ֔וּר
פֶּ֖רֶא בֹּודֵ֣ד...
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THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL
Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
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2. ARTIFICIAL KINGS AND ARTIFICIAL GODS
Hosea 8:4
The curse of such a state of dissipation as that to which Israel had
fallen is that it produces no men. Had the people had in them "the
root of the m...
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REAPING THE WHIRLWIND
Hosea 8:1-14
A conqueror was at hand who should subdue and punish the whole nation
for taking its own course, irrespective of God, Hosea 8:4-8; for
seeking foreign alliances whi...
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From this statement of the case the prophet turned to the
pronouncement of judgment. This he did by adopting the figure of the
trumpet lifted to the mouth, on which five blasts were sounded, in
each o...
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For they are gone up to Assyria, a (g) wild ass alone by himself:
Ephraim hath hired lovers.
(g) They never cease, but run to and fro to seek help....
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_Wild ass. It is very jealous of liberty, (Job xi. 12.) and of its
females, so that it prevents the young males from becoming its rivals.
(Pliny, [Natural History?] viii. 30.; Solin xxx.) --- If this...
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Here is a very striking passage in these words of the Lord, and is as
suited to all ages as to the age of Israel. The Lord saith, that the
great things he wrote to Israel were counted by them strange...
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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...
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XI. HOSEA 8:7 (NASB) FOR THEY SOW THE WIND, AND THEY REAP THE
WHIRLWIND......
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Here again the Prophet derides all the labour the people had
undertaken to exempt themselves from punishment. For though hypocrites
dare not openly and avowedly to fight against God, yet they seek vai...
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In chapter 8 it is especially the daring and continual violation of
the law of their God, with which Israel is openly reproached, and
which would bring judgment, with eagle swiftness, upon them. Obser...
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FOR THEY ARE GONE UP TO ASSYRIA,.... Or, "though they should go up to
Assyria" g; to the king of Assyria, to gain his friendship, and enter
into alliance with him; as, when Pal king of Assyria came ag...
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For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim
hath hired lovers.
Ver. 9. _For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by
himself_] This was that that most moved the Lord...
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LOVERS:
_ Heb._ loves...
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5-10 They promised themselves plenty, peace, and victory, by
worshipping idols, but their expectations came to nothing. What they
sow has no stalk, no blade, or, if it have, the bud shall yield no
fr...
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The prophet gives now an account why Israel was so impoverished, and
why they should be so severely punished, why so punished of God, and
why so slighted by man. THEY ARE GONE UP TO ASSYRIA; either go...
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Hosea 8:9 up H5927 (H8804) Assyria H804 donkey H6501 alone H909
(H8802) Ephraim H669 hired H8566 ...
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BECAUSE ISRAEL HAVE DESERTED YHWH AND LOOKED TO OTHERS, (BOTH NATIONS
AND GODS), IN SPITE OF HAVING RECEIVED HIS ABUNDANT INSTRUCTION, HE
WILL DESERT THEM AND THEY WILL RETURN TO EGYPT AND SEE THEIR C...
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‘Israel is swallowed up.
Now are they among the nations,
As a vessel in which none delights.
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For they are gone up to Assyria,
A wild ass alone by himself,
Ephraim has hired lovers.'
Not only w...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Sins denounced and captivity
foretold.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: Those who sow to the flesh must reap corruption. All the
hopes of sinners are cheats, and...
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Hosea 8:1. _Set the trumpet to thy mouth._ Give alarm, for the king of
Assyria is coming; he is stretching his wings like an eagle to take
the prey. Isaiah uses the same figure, in Isaiah 58:1.
_Again...
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_A wild ass alone by himself._
THE SCRIPTURE FIGURE OF THE WILD ASS
What a figure of the untamed soul which refuses the easy yoke of the
blessed Redeemer. Man’s untamed spirit spurns the adorable Lor...
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HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 8:1 The people of Israel may claim to know and
love the Lord, but their deeds prove otherwise.
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
HOSEA 8:9. ASSY-] to gain friendship and alliance. WILD ASS] A
comparison which shows their folly, not as a paramour burning in lust,
but heady, obstinate, and undisciplined; outstrip...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter deals with the punishment of apostasy. Once more the sins
of the northern kingdom are enumerated and its approaching fall
predicted. There is a close connection between the ver...
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Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the
house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and
trespassed against my law (Hsa Hosea 8:1).
So God again is giving...
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2 Kings 15:19; Ezekiel 16:33; Ezekiel 16:34; Ezekiel 23:5; Hosea 12:1
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Gone up — Israel is like a wild ass. A wild ass — Stubborn, wild,
untamed. Alone — Solitary, where is no path or tract; so they were
in their captivity....