Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 10:2
Is divided — From God and his worship. Faulty — As this was their sin, so the effects hereof should manifestly prove them faulty. He — God.
Is divided — From God and his worship. Faulty — As this was their sin, so the effects hereof should manifestly prove them faulty. He — God.
Verse Hosea 10:2. _THEIR HEART IS DIVIDED_] They wish to serve God and Mammon, Jehovah and Baal: but this is impossible. Now GOD will do in _judgment_ what _they_ should have done in _contrition_, "br...
THEIR HEART IS DIVIDED - Between God and their idols, in that they would not wholly part with either, as Elijah upbraided them, “How long halt ye between the two opinions?” 1 Kings 18:21. When the pag...
CHAPTER 9:10-11:11 RETROSPECT, ISRAEL'S FAILURE AND RUIN _ 1. Israel once beloved, now fugitive wanderers (Hosea 9:10) _ 2. Their guilt and punishment (Hosea 10:1) 3. Exhortation and rebuke (Hosea...
GOD'S ANNIHILATING JUDGMENT ON THE MIXED CULTUS. With the land's abounding prosperity Israel has multiplied altars in the service of the mixed cultus; these Yahweh will destroy (Hosea 10:1 f.) Their p...
THEIR HEART IS DIVIDED. Compare 1 Kings 18:21. 2Ki 17:32, 2 Kings 17:33; 2 Kings 17:41. FOUND FAULTY. held guilty. Referring back to Hos
ISRAEL IS AN EMPTY VINE -- HOSEA 10:1-4 : Israel was a very selfish and idolatrous nation. God had made them into a healthy vine covered with grapes. Sadly, the more prosperous they became the more al...
NOW SHALL THEY BE FOUND FAULTY— _Now shall they undergo their punishment._...
REPROVINGISRAEL FELL INTO ANARCHY TEXT: Hosea 10:1-11 1 Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to...
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images. THEIR HEART IS DIVIDED - (1 Kings 18:21, "How long halt ye between two opinion...
10:2 statues. (h-21) See Note, ch. 3.4....
DENUNCIATIONS AND ENTREATIES This prophecy appears to have been uttered at a later date than the last. There is no longer any mention of Egypt, but the calamity from Assyria seems imminent. Again Hos...
THEIR.. DIVIDED] It is no simple worship of Jehovah, but a confused heathenish worship, which God will altogether destroy: see Intro....
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 10 THE RICHES OF ISRAEL LEAD TO HER *WORSHIP OF *IDOLS V1 Israel is like a *vine that grows plenty of fruit. But Israel became...
THEIR HEART IS DIVIDED is the rendering of the LXX., Raschi, Aben-Ezra, and most ancient versions. But modern expositors prefer to translate “Their heart is treacherous (_smooth_)_.”_ The rest of the...
חָלַ֥ק לִבָּ֖ם עַתָּ֣ה יֶאְשָׁ֑מוּ ה֚וּא יַעֲרֹ֣ף...
5. ONCE MORE: PUPPET-KINGS AND PUPPET-GODS Hosea 10:1 For another section, the tenth chapter, the prophet returns to the twin targets of his scorn: the idols and the puppet-kings. But few notes are...
“BREAK UP YOUR FALLOW GROUND” Hosea 10:1-15 Israel brought forth fruit, but not such as God could delight in. It was corrupt and evil. How great a disappointment to the Great Cultivator! The land was...
The section dealing with pollution and its punishment closes with the prophet's recapitulation and appeal. The whole case is first stated under the figure of the vine. Israel was a luxuriant vine, and...
Their heart is (c) divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images. (c) That is, from God, by serving their false gods....
_Divided between the Lord and idols, 3 Kings xviii. 21. (Calmet) --- The Jews relate that Osee, the last king of Israel, gave the people leave to go to Jerusalem; (4 Kings xvii. 2.) and as they would...
Alas! how often do the Lord's people still find a divided heart! Precious Jesus! though I am fully convinced that there can be no happiness but in thee, yet how frequently is my poor heart going after...
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...
He says first that _their heart was divided, _that is, from God; for this, we know, is principally required, that people should faithfully cleave to their God. “And now Israel, what does thy God requi...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9, 10, AND 11. In CHAPTER 9 we have here that touching mixture of affection and judgment which we find again and again in this prophet. Ephraim should not rem...
THEIR HEART IS DIVIDED,.... Some say from Hoshea their king, who would have reformed them from their idolatry, and returned them to the true worship of God; but of that there is no proof; better from...
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images. Ver. 2. _Their heart is divided_] _sc._ from God; whose soul therefore is justly...
_Their heart is divided_ Between God and their idols, or between God and the world. _Now shall they be found faulty_ As this was their sin, so it is here threatened, that the effects thereof should pr...
Their heart is divided, rather, "smooth, false, insincere"; NOW SHALL THEY BE FOUND FAULTY, they will have to make expiation, they will have to suffer for their duplicity; HE SHALL BREAK DOWN THEIR AL...
THE SEATS OF WORSHIP DESTROYED...
THEIR HEART IS DIVIDED: Or, he hath divided their heart BREAK: _ Heb._ behead...
1-8 A vine is only valuable for its fruit; but Israel now brought no fruit to perfection. Their hearts were divided. God is the Sovereign of the heart; he will have all, or none. Were the stream of t...
THEIR HEART IS DIVIDED from God and his worship, or between God and Baal, such as ZEPHANIAH 1:5 speaks of, or else divided one from another by parties, and factions, and civil wars, which tended to th...
Hosea 10:2 heart H3820 divided H2505 (H8804) guilty H816 (H8799) down H6202 (H8799) altars H4196 ruin...
‘Their heart is divided (or ‘smooth, deceitful'). Now will they be found guilty. He will smite their altars, He will destroy their pillars.' But Hosea warned that it would not go on for ever. Their...
ISRAEL'S ‘FRUITFULNESS' IS REVEALED BY THEIR SETTING UP A MULTIPLICITY OF ALTARS AND RELIGIOUS PILLARS, DECLARING THAT THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE TO NO ONE, AND DO NOT FEAR GOD, BUT THEY WILL SHORTLY DISCOV...
Hosea 10:1. _Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself:_ Not to his God. It matters not how much fruit we bear if it is for self, we are really fruitless. A thing which is good in...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Further reproof for Israel's impiety. CHARACTERS: God, Jareb, King of Israel. CONCLUSION: If the grace of God prevail not to destroy the love of sin in us, i...
Hosea 10:1. _Israel is an empty vine._ So is the Hebrew, but the LXX read, “a well-branched vine;” that is, full of leaves, but destitute of fruit. Their fruits are the fruits of idolatry. The figures...
_Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty._ A DIVIDED HEART It is one grievous fault with the Church of Christ at the present day, that it is not merely divided somewhat in its creed, a...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 10:1 For the image of Israel as a VINE, see Psalms 80:8; Jeremiah 2:
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 10:1. EMPTY] Luxuriant. Lit. poureth out, emptying itself into leaves; stretching itself far and wide towards foreign alliances (Psalms 80:9; Psalms 80:12); outwardly prosperous...
EXPOSITION The concluding thought of the last chapter is the commencing one of this; while the sad subject of Israel's guilt being resumed continues in the first section (Hosea 10:1) of the chapter, a...
Shall we turn to Hosea, chapter 10. It is God's purpose for our lives that we bring forth fruit. In Isaiah chapter 6 God likens the nation of Israel to a vineyard that was planted with good plants, th...
1 John 2:15; 1 Kings 18:21; 1 Samuel 5:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:11;...