Hosea 9:6

Hosea -in the Spirit" sees the Israelites already being carried into captivity.

because of destruction Rather, from the devastation. They have left their desolated country.

shall gather them up viz. in burial; comp. Ezekiel 29:5; Jeremiah 8:2; Jeremiah 25:33.

Memphis The most ancient of the capitals of Egypt, on the west bank of the Nile, south of old Cairo, elsewhere called in the Hebrew Noph (Isaiah 19:13; Jeremiah 2:16), but here Moph. The Egyptian name, given to it by Menes, accounts for both forms Men-nufre -the good" or -perfect mansion"; the Assyrians called it Mimpi. All that is left of Memphis is its necropolis -stretching north and south nearly twenty miles", where Hosea threateningly declares that the Israelites shall find a grave, remote, dishonoured, and -unclean." Contrast Exodus 14:11, where the Israelites reproach Moses with having deprived them of their right to sepulture in the vast cemeteries of Egypt.

the pleasant places for their silver Rather, their precious things of silver, i.e. costly silver ornaments.

their tabernacles i.e., either the idol-tents of the high places (comp. Ezekiel 16:16), or simply their dwellings (comp. 2 Samuel 20:1).