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Verse Hosea 12:11. _INIQUITY_ IN _GILEAD_] Gilgal and Gilead are
equally iniquitous, and equally idolatrous. Gilead, which was beyond
Jordan, had already been brought under subjection by Tiglath-Piles...
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IS THERE INIQUITY IN GILEAD? - The prophet asks the question, in order
to answer it the more peremptorily. He raises the doubt, in order to
crush it the more impressively. Is there “iniquity” in
“Gile...
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CHAPTER S 11:12-12:14 THE INDICTMENT
_ 1. Ephraim's indictment (Hosea 11:12; Hosea 12:1) _
2. Remembrance of the past (Hosea 12:3)
3. What Israel had become ...
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HOSEA 11:12 TO HOSEA 12:14 (= Hebrews 12:1). EPHRAIM'S INFIDELITY
TRACED FROM THE BEGINNING. This is one of the most difficult passages
in Hosea. In the text Judah also is mentioned; but this may be d...
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IS THERE INIQUITY. [Surely Gilead is] iniquity: supplying the
_Ellipsis_ (App-6) from the next clause.
INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avert._ App-44. Not the same word as Hosea 12:8.
GILEAD... GILGAL... HEAPS....
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Not Israel, but Canaan should he be called; for his ideal is Canaan's.
The end justifies the means, and his end is to become rich! But how
bitterly will he be disappointed. He must in short begin his...
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The ruin of two famous centres of idolatry, representing together the
entire northern kingdom.
_Is there iniquity_, &c. More probably, IF GILEAD IS (GIVEN TO)
IDOLATRY, MERE VANITY SHALL THEY (THE GIL...
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_ISRAEL PROVOKED GOD TO ANGER -- HOSEA 12:11-14:_ Gilead was a large
area in Palestine known for producing many healing items but they had
become terribly sinful. Now they will end up in ruin. Bulls w...
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IS THERE INIQUITY, &C.— _If there was a vain religion in Gilead,
certainly they are vain in Gilgal: They sacrifice bullocks; therefore
their altars shall be,_ &c. Houbigant. The tribes beyond Jordan,...
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REQUITINGEPHRAIM HAS PROVOKED
TEXT: Hosea 12:7-14
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He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth
to oppress.
8
And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me...
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Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice
bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of
the fields.
IS THERE INIQUITY IN GILEAD? - Hebrew, 'vanity.'...
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A REPROOF OF COMMERCIAL DISHONESTY
The Hebrew text divides the chapter more correctly at this v. The
prophet returns to the subject of the unfaithfulness both of Israel
and of Judah. They have sought...
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GILEAD.. GILGAL] both sanctuaries: see Hosea 4:15; Hosea 6:8. _Is
there_ INIQUITY, etc.] RV 'Is Gilead iniquity? 'The question is only a
rhetorical way of stating an astounding fact.
12. The idolatry...
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THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING
HOSEA
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 12
V1 There is much that the people of Israel do from morning to night.
But it has no worth. They tell lies and they destroy thi...
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Translate, _If Gilead be worthless, surely they have become nought. In
Gilgal they sacrificed bullocks; their altars also are like heaps upon
the field’s furrows,_ referring to a past event, the desol...
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_[Hosea 12:12]_ אִם ־גִּלְעָ֥ד אָ֨וֶן֙ אַךְ
־שָׁ֣וְא...
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THE FINAL ARGUMENT
Hosea 12:1 - Hosea 14:1
THE impassioned call with which the last chapter closed was by no
means an assurance of salvation: "How am I to give thee, up, Ephraim?
how am I to let thee...
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TURN TO GOD, NOT TO SELFISH GAIN
Hosea 11:12; Hosea 12:1-14
Though Judah still ruled with God, Hosea 11:12, yet there was grave
fault in him, and, like Ephraim, which had been engaging the prophet's...
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In the second movement Jehovah set the present sin in the light of His
present love. The sin of Ephraim and the sin of Judah, if the marginal
reading be adopted, are both declared. The sin of Ephraim...
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[Is there] (k) iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they
sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the
furrows of the fields.
(k) The people thought that no man dare...
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Idol. That is, if Galaad, with all its idols and sacrifices, be like a
mere idol itself, being brought to nothing by Theglathphalassar, how
vain is it to expect that the idols worshipped in Galgal sha...
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The Prophet here follows up the just and becoming resolution which
ought to take place in every heart of Jacob's children, whether
Ephraim or Judah, in pursuing the steps of their father. And he goes...
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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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It is an ironical question, when the Prophet says, _Is there iniquity
in Gilead ? _and he laughs to scorn their madness who delighted
themselves in vices so gross, when their worship was wholly spurio...
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The Spirit presents another aspect of the relationship of Israel with
God. He would punish Ephraim, and the sins of Judah should be
remembered. But He reminds them, that there was a time when Jacob
co...
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[IS THERE] INIQUITY [IN] GILEAD?.... Idolatry there? strange that
there should be, seeing it was a city of the priests; a city of
refuge; or there is none there, say the priests, who pretended they
di...
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Hosea 12:11 [Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity:
they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in
the furrows of the fields.
Ver. 11. _Is there iniquity in G...
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_Is there iniquity in Gilead?_ Or, _Was there idolatry in Gilead?_ as
the word און often signifies. _Surely they are vanity, &c., in
Gilgal_ The tribes settled about Gilead beyond Jordan, were already...
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Is there iniquity in Gilead? Surely they are vanity, or, "If Gilead,"
representing the eastern half of the northern kingdom, "is
worthlessness and iniquity," if it has reached the depths of moral
ruin...
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ANOTHER SERIOUS REPROACH...
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7-14 Ephraim became a merchant: the word also signifies a Canaanite.
They carried on trade upon Canaanitish principles, covetously and with
fraud and deceit. Thus they became rich, and falsely suppos...
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IS THERE INIQUITY IN GILEAD? in this concise interrogatory the prophet
warns the refractory, ungodly Israelites by an example of God's wrath
on them. About A.M. 326.1, at Ahaz's request and charges,
T...
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Hosea 12:11 Gilead H1568 sacrifice H2076 (H8765) bulls H7794 Gilgal
H1537 altars H4196 heaps H1530 furrows H8525 fiel
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‘Is Gilead wicked?
They are altogether false.
In Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks,
Yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.'
His indictment of Israel continues. Is Gilead (represen...
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HAVING MADE HIS APPEAL FOR REPENTANCE HOSEA NOW INDICATES THAT EPHRAIM
ARE SO CONFIDENT IN THEMSELVES THAT THEIR ONLY HOPE WILL BE AFTER THEY
HAVE BEEN ‘BROUGHT DOWN A PEG OR TWO' (HOSEA 12:8).
This p...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Further reproof of Israel's
sins.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: Those who make creatures and things their confidence, put
a cheat upon their own souls, and pr...
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Hosea 12:4. _He found him in Bethel._ Christ, the angel, the mystical
angel, or the Angel the Word, as St. Clemens of Alexandria calls him:
so indeed do all the orthodox fathers. The church knows of n...
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HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 12:2 Hosea recounts incidents from Israel’s
past in order to display the Lord’s enduring kindness and Israel’s
stubborn ingratitude.
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Hosea 12:11. Vanity] The question strengthens the affirmation. All was
to no purpose. Warnings unheeded, altars as numerous as heaps of
stones gathered out of the field, and scenes...
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EXPOSITION
In Hosea 12:1 God continues his complaint against Ephraim, charging
them specially with the pursuit of vain and futile courses to their
great detriment. Instead of repairing to the true and...
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Ephraim feeds on the wind, and follows after the east wind: he daily
increases lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the
Assyrians (Hsa Hosea 12:1),
They tried to escape the destructi...
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1 Kings 17:1; 2 Kings 17:9; Amos 4:4; Amos 5:5; Hosea 10:1;...
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In Gilead — Tiglah Pileser had formerly took Gilead among other
towns, leading the inhabitants captive. By this the prophet minds the
Ephraimites what they must expect, and doth it in this pungent
que...