Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 10:9
They — Probably the six hundred men who fled to the rock Rimmon. Overtake them — That fatal battle did not reach them; but now Israel shall be more severely punished.
They — Probably the six hundred men who fled to the rock Rimmon. Overtake them — That fatal battle did not reach them; but now Israel shall be more severely punished.
Verse Hosea 10:9. _THOU HAST SINNED FROM THE DAYS OF GIBEAH_] This is another reference to the horrible rape and murder of the Levite's wife, Judges 19:13-7. _THERE THEY STOOD_] Only one tribe was n...
O ISRAEL, THOU HAST SINNED FROM THE DAYS OF GIBEAH - There must have been great sin, on both sides, of Israel as well as Benjamin, when Israel punished the atrocity of Gibeah, since God caused Israel...
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...
ISRAEL MUST REAP THE RUIN HE HAS SOWN. From the days of Gibeah Israel has sinned, and never progressed since (Hosea 10:9, but see notes); Yahweh comes to punish them, and gather the peoples against th...
SINNED. Hebrew. _chata_. App-44. FROM: or, beyond. the days of Gibeah. See Hosea 9:9 and Judges 19 and Judges 20. Note the Article. THERE THEY STOOD. In battle array. CHILDREN. sons. iniquity.
_thou hast sinned_ The prophet's language is correct from his own point of view. True, Israel as a people took summary vengeance on the Benjamites for the outrage of Gibeah. But the seed of wickedness...
A fresh demonstration of Israel's guiltiness. The prevalent depravity is comparable only to that of the men of Gibeah (see on Hosea 9:9). -The times are out of joint"; all Israel's doings are against...
SOW IN RIGHTEOUSNESS; REAP IN MERCY -- HOSEA 10:9-12 : Israel had never stopped sinning since that time at Gibeah. Now they faced attacked at Gibeah. Gibeah will always be remembered for the horrible...
O ISRAEL, THOU HAST SINNED— _Even from the days of Gibeah, the sin of Israel flourisheth; from which if they had then abstained, they would not have provoked war in Gibeah, because of wicked men._ Hou...
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...
O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them. O ISRAEL, THOU HAST SINNED FROM THE DAYS OF GIBEAH...
10:9 From (a-1) Or 'More than in.' see ch. 9.9....
FROM THE DAYS] RM 'more than in the days.' GIBEAH] see on Hosea 9:9. THE BATTLE] RV 'that the battle.' Hosea finds a parallel between the battle of vengeance against the Benjamites in Gibeah (Judges 2...
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...
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...
O ISRAEL... GIBEAH. — Thou didst commence thy obscene transgressions long before the disruption of the kingdom of Rehoboam, even at Gibeah. Gibeah is emblematic of gross and cruel sensuality, in allus...
מִ ימֵי֙ הַ גִּבְעָ֔ה חָטָ֖אתָ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל שׁ
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...
O Israel, thou hast (k) sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they (l) stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not (m) overtake them. (k) In those days you were as wicked as...
Gabaa. Septuagint, "high places;" or he alludes to the brutality of the citizens, Judges xx. 13. --- Stood. Those of Gabaa were speedily punished by the other tribes. Now, all are perverse. At that ti...
The reference here to the battle of Gibeah, seems to be that which is spoken of, Judges 20:1. But spiritually considered, to the Israel of God at large, the allusion is yet more striking. Here the cha...
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 here reproaches Israel for having been long inured in their sins, and not for being lately corrupted. This is the substance. He had said in the last chapter that they were deep in their sins, as in...
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...
O ISRAEL, THOU HAST SINNED FROM THE DAYS OF GIBEAH,.... This has no respect, as the Targum, and others, to Gibeah of Saul, of which place he was, and the choosing him to be king; but to the affair of...
O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them. Ver. 9. _O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of...
Hos. 10:9, 10, "O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah; there they stood, the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them. It is my desire that I should chastis...
_O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah_ This is not the first of thy sinning, O Israel, for long ago there was the greatest corruption of manners, and the most flagrant wickedness in Gibe...
THE KINGDOM DEVASTATED...
O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah, when such an abominable atrocity happened in the midst of the people of God, Cf Hosea 9:9; Judges 19:22; THERE THEY STOOD, continuing in the same im...
9-15 Because God does not desire the death and ruin of sinners, therefore in mercy he desires their chastisement. The children of iniquity still remained in Israel. The enemies would be gathered agai...
O ISRAEL, THOU HAST SINNED; you of the ten tribes with such consent have sinned, that you seem to do it as one man. FROM THE DAYS OF GIBEAH; ever since the days, so we; but, as Rivet observes, it will...
Hosea 10:9 Israel H3478 sinned H2398 (H8804) days H3117 Gibeah H1390 stood H5975 (H8804) battle H4421 Gibeah...
‘O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they took a stand. Did not the battle against the children of iniquity Overtake them in Gibeah?' What had happened at Gibeah (Judges 19-21)...
ISRAEL ARE WARNED THAT THEY FACE ANOTHER GIBEAH BECAUSE ALTHOUGH HE HAD CHOSEN THEM AS HIS SERVANT (LIKE A TRAINED HEIFER) THEY HAVE RESPONDED WITH DISOBEDIENCE AND WICKEDNESS. A FINAL WAR OF DESTRUCT...
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...
_O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah._ SIN AND PUNISHMENT “The days of Gibeah” recall the hideous story of lust and crime, which was the low-water mark of the lawless days of old. That...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 10:9 THE DAYS OF GIBEAH. See note on 9:9. Israel is in much more trouble now than when the Benjaminites were punished at Gibeah....
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 10:9.] A return to earlier days to prove deeper guilt. STOOD] As at the beginning, so now they stand, persisting in their sin. Others, though smitten in Gibeah, yet they avenge...
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...
Genesis 6:5; Genesis 8:21; Hosea 9:9; Judges 19:22; Judges 20:13;...