Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 9:3
Ephraim — Many of Ephraim shall fly into Egypt. And they — The residue shall be carried captive into Assyria.
Ephraim — Many of Ephraim shall fly into Egypt. And they — The residue shall be carried captive into Assyria.
Verse Hosea 9:3. _BUT EPHRAIM SHALL RETURN TO EGYPT_] See on Hosea 8:13....
THEY SHALL NOT DWELL IN THE LORD’S LAND. THE EARTH IS THE LORD’S AND THE FULNESS THEREOF - Yet He had chosen the land of Canaan, there to place His people; there, above others, to work His miracles; t...
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)...
THE JOYLESS DISCIPLINE OF EXILE. The delirious joy of the popular nature-religion shall soon be exchanged for the sorrows of exile. In her own land Israel had treacherously ascribed to the Baalim the...
RETURN TO EGYPT. See Hosea 8:13; Hosea 11:5. Compare Ezekiel 4:13. IN ASSYRIA. See 2 Kings 17:6;...
_in the Lord's land_ -For I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel", Numbers 35:34. The expression originated in the popular belief that as, for example, Chemosh was the God of the Amorites, so J...
A vivid picture of the bitterness of the calamity in prospect. It does but equal the Gibeah-like wickedness of Israel....
_ISRAEL FACED CERTAIN DESTRUCTION -- HOSEA 9:1-6:_ Israel was headed for a fall. They had been unfaithful to God by behaving like spiritual prostitutes. They enjoyed the blessings they had received fr...
BUT EPHRAIM SHALL RETURN TO EGYPT— When Salmaneser made the ten tribes captive, such as were able to escape the conqueror fled into Egypt, having implored the aid of that country against the Assyrians...
LOVE REBUKING Hosea 9:1, Hosea 13:16 REPROVINGISRAEL FORSOOK GOD TEXT: Hosea 9:1-9 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou hast played the harlot, departing from thy God; thou...
They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. THEY SHALL NOT DWELL IN THE LORD'S LAND; BUT EPHRAIM SHALL RETURN TO EGYPT...
EXILE IS AT HAND This prophecy appears to have been written in a time of rejoicing over a good harvest and vintage. Israel need not rejoice, says the prophet, with the wild joy of the heathen. Their...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 9 HOSEA TELLS ISRAEL THAT GOD WILL PUNISH HER V1 People of Israel, do not be happy. Do not shout for joy like the other nations...
Canaan, the land of Jehovah, is holy, Assyria unholy (Amos 7:17), where there was no temple or sacred ordinances. Since meat was not a divinely sanctioned food, except in connection with a Jehovah fes...
לֹ֥א יֵשְׁב֖וּ בְּ אֶ֣רֶץ יְהוָ֑ה וְ שָׁ֤ב
3. THE EFFECTS OF EXILE Hosea 9:1 Hosea now turns to describe the effects of exile upon the social and religious habits of the people. It must break up at once the joy and the sacredness of their liv...
“THE DAYS OF RECOMPENSE ARE COME” Hosea 9:1-9 The subject of this chapter is the bitterness of the captivity which was awaiting Israel as the result of their unfaithfulness. Their exile would put an...
The judgment was then described in detail. Its first note was of the death of joy. Israel could not find her joy like other peoples. She had gone whoring from God, loving hire on every threshing floor...
_Egypt, through distress, chap viii. 13. (St. Jerome, ver. 6.) (Worthington) --- Sua afforded no protection, and the country proved a grave to those who retired thither. --- Unclean. The people observ...
Looking with an eye to the captivity in Babylon, the Lord threatens Israel with removing them from the holy land. Indeed, an unfaithful wife ought not to dwell under the roof with her injured husband....
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...
XII. HOSEA 9:7 (NASB) THE DAYS OF PUNISHMENT HAVE COME, THE DAYS OF RETRIBUTION HAVE COME; LET ISRAEL KNOW [THIS]! THE PROPHET IS A FOOL, THE INSPIRED MAN IS DEMENTED, BECAUSE OF THE GROSSNESS OF YOUR...
The Prophet proclaims here a heavier punishment — that the Lord would drive them into exile. It was indeed a dreadful repudiation, when they were deprived of the land of Canaan, which was the Lord’s r...
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...
THEY SHALL NOT DWELL IN THE LORD'S LAND,.... The land of Israel, or Canaan; which, though all the earth is the Lord's, was peculiarly his; which he had chosen for himself, and for this people; where h...
They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean [things] in Assyria. Ver. 3. They shall not dwell in the Lord's land] Because they would not liv...
_They shall not dwell in the Lord's land, but Ephraim shall return into Egypt_ God will turn them out of that inheritance he gave to their fathers, and they shall be carried into captivity or become e...
They shall not dwell in the Lord's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, which is here once more representative of the land of bondage, the name standing for any kind of captivity, AND THEY SHALL E...
WARNING AGAINST FALSE SECURITY...
1-6 Israel gave rewards to their idols, in the offerings presented to them. It is common for those who are niggardly in religion, to be prodigal upon their lusts. Those are reckoned as idolaters, who...
THEY, who worship idols, and give my glory to them, depending on them, and ascribing to them what I alone give them, SHALL NOT DWELL IN THE LORD'S LAND; though they have been in possession many years,...
Hosea 9:3 dwell H3427 (H8799) LORDS H3068 land H776 Ephraim H669 return H7725 (H8804) Egypt H4714 eat...
‘They will not dwell in YHWH's land, But Ephraim will return to Egypt, And they will eat unclean food in Assyria. They would no longer be allowed to live ‘in YHWH's land'. They had overlooked the fa...
ISRAEL MUST NOT REJOICE AT THEIR HARVEST FEAST BECAUSE EVERYTHING WILL SHORTLY BE TAKEN FROM THEM WHEN THEY ARE EXILED TO EGYPT/ASSYRIA BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY HAVE BECOME AND BECAUSE OF HOW THEY HAVE TR...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Israel's coming distress because of sin. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Joy is a forbidden fruit to those who have broken covenant with God, until they return...
Hosea 9:1. _Rejoice not, oh Israel,_ with the shouts of harvest, and the songs of the vintage, as all heathen nations have done, and have ascribed their harvests to their idols; for God was about to d...
_They shall not dwell in the Lord’s land._ THE LORD’S LAND Before, God was to them as a father taking maintenance away from them, leaving them to suffer want: but here His anger increases, and He put...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 9:1 God will punish Israel by sending her people away from the land, to a place where they will not be able to make offerings to the Lord. ⇐...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 9:3 The failure of crops is not the only outcome of Ephraim’s spiritual adultery; exile from the land is another consequence. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Israel had fallen away from God, would not enjoy the produce of the field, but would be taken captive into Assyria, and be unable to keep the feasts. HOSEA 9:1. REJOICE] Lit. to exult...
EXPOSITION HOSEA 9:1 Contain a warning against security arising from temporary prosperity. HOSEA 9:1 REJOICE NOT, O ISRAEL, FOR JOY, AS OTHER PEOPLE. The occasion on which the prophet penned this s...
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have gone a whoring from your God, you have loved a reward upon every cornfloor. The floor in the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wi...
1 Kings 9:7; 2 Kings 17:6; Acts 10:14; Daniel 1:8; Deuteronomy 28:63;...