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Verse Hosea 12:10. _I HAVE ALSO SPOKEN_] I have used every means, and
employed every method, to instruct and save you. I have sent
_prophets_, who spake _plainly_, exhorting, warning, and beseeching...
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I HAVE ALSO SPOKEN BY THE PROPHETS - Literally, “upon the
prophets,” the revelation coming down from heaven upon them.
Somewhat like this, is what Ezekiel says, “the hand of the Lord was
strong upon m...
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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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SPOKEN BY THE PROPHETS. Compare 2 Kings 17:13. Heb 1:1. 2 Peter 1:21....
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It is not for want of warnings that this calamity comes upon the
Israelites. In the most various ways has Jehovah spoken, not _to_, but
BY THE PROPHETS.
_Visions … similitudes_ A prophetic vision is,...
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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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_PAYING FOR DISHONESTY IN BUSINESS -- HOSEA 12:7-10:_ Israel had
become deceitful. They enjoyed cheating and taking advantage of other
people. These dishonest people would use a heavy weight to buy wi...
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I HAVE ALSO SPOKEN BY THE PROPHETS— Here are three species of
prophesy distinctly mentioned: _first,_ immediate _suggestion_ or
_inspiration,_ when God dictates the very words which the prophet is
to...
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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.
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And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me...
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I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions,
and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
I HAVE ALSO SPOKEN BY THE PROPHETS - literally, upon the prophets -
i:e., m...
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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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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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_[Hosea 12:11]_ וְ דִבַּ֨רְתִּי֙ עַל ־הַ
נְּבִיאִ֔ים...
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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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_Prophets. They have represented me as it were under visible forms,
that you cannot plead ignorance. The prophets prefigured Christ, the
end of the law, &c. (Calmet)_...
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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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The Prophet amplifies the sin of the people in having always
obstinately opposed God, so that they were without any pretext of
ignorance: for men, we know, evade God’s dreadful judgement as long
as th...
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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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I HAVE ALSO SPOKEN TO THE PROPHETS,.... Or, "I will speak" b; for this
respects not the Lord's speaking by the prophets of the Old Testament
who spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost; though all...
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I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and
used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
Ver. 10. _I have also spoken by the prophets_] And not suffered you
to walk i...
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_I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt_ From the time I
brought thee out of it: _will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles_
That is, in thy habitations, quietly and joyfully, as in festiv...
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I have also spoken by the prophets, so that He had always been in
close touch with His chosen people, AND I HAVE MULTIPLIED VISIONS AND
USED SIMILITUDES, making known His will by parables, BY THE MINI...
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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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I HAVE ALSO SPOKEN BY THE PROPHETS; Heb. _and_, i.e. since I would
have continued Ephraim's peaceful state, I have spoken to them by my
prophets, who have warned them of their danger, reproved them fo...
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‘I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions,
and by the ministry of the prophets have I used illustrations.'
He reminded them also that their situation did not arise out of the...
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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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_I have also spoken by the prophets._
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF HAVING THE REVEALED WORD OF GOD
This is a further declaration of God’s goodness to this people, and
an upbraiding of them for their wicked...
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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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_HOMILETICS_
CRITICAL NOTES.]
Hosea 12:10. By prophets] who left no means untried, speaking in
metaphors and methods adapted to rouse the attention (Numbers 12:6;
Numbers 12:8;...
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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 13:1; 1 Kings 14:7; 1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:21; 1 Kings
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Spoken — To warn them of their danger....