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Verse 15. _THOUGH I HAVE BOUND AND STRENGTHENED THEIR ARMS_] Whether I
dealt with them in _judgment_ or _mercy_, it was all one; in all
circumstances they rebelled against me....
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THOUGH I HAVE BOUND - Rather, (as in the E. M) “And I have
chastened, I have strenghened their arms, and they imagine mischief
against Me.” God had tried all ways with them, but it was all one.
He cha...
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CHAPTER 7
The Moral Depravity of Israel
_ 1. Their moral depravity (Hosea 7:1) _
2. Mingling with heathen nations (Hosea 7:8)
Hosea 7:1. All the gracious efforts of the Lord to heal Israel
resulted...
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HOSEA 7:8 TO HOSEA 8:3. POLITICAL DECAY THE OUTWARD SIGN OF ISRAEL'S
MORAL DECAY. The attempts to cure national ills and secure safety by
foreign aid, instead of by turning to Yahweh, are foredoomed t...
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THOUGH. HAVE BOUND. Though I, even I, have warned (or instructed).
Compare Psalms 18:34; Psalms 144:1....
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_Though I have bound and strengthened their arms_ Rather, I INDEED
HAVE TRAINED AND STRENGTHENED THEIR ARMS. The Israelites had had a
proof of this not long since when -Jehovah saw the affliction of
I...
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_ISRAEL REBELLED MORE AND MORE -- HOSEA 7:14-16:_ The rebellion of
Israel against God has brought on devastation. God was their rightful
king and ruler. He had always ruled fairly and with their good...
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THOUGH I HAVE BOUND, &C.— _But I will chastise them. I strengthened
their arms, yet did they,_ &c....
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ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDELOVE OF SIN
TEXT: Hosea 7:8-16
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Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not
turned.
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Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea...
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Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine
mischief against me.
THOUGH I HAVE BOUND AND STRENGTHENED THEIR ARMS - when I saw their
arms as it were relaxed with various dis...
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BOUND] RV 'taught,' by chastisement....
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CORRUPTION OF THE COURT
In this chapter the tone again becomes despondent. How can Israel be
saved when her iniquity is so deep, so glaring, so obstinate? Samaria
is especially instanced as the centr...
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THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING
HOSEA
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 7
V1 I want to heal my people Israel!
Then people will know that *Ephraim has *sinned....
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BOUND. — Should be _instructed._ God has imparted skill and power to
fight their enemies. (Comp. Psalms 144:1.) So the grace of the Spirit
is often slighted by its recipients....
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וַ אֲנִ֣י יִסַּ֔רְתִּי חִזַּ֖קְתִּי
זְרֹֽועֹתָ֑ם וְ...
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THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL
Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
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1. THE CONFUSION OF THE NATION
Hosea 7:8; Hosea 8:1
Hosea begins by summing up the public aspect of Israel in two
epigrams, short but of marvelous adequacy:-Hosea 7:8
"Ephraim-among the nations he...
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INIQUITY UNCOVERED
Hosea 7:1-16
The last clause of the previous chapter belongs to this. God desired
to turn aside the captivity of His people and to heal Israel, but His
pleading was unavailing beca...
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The prophet then declared more particularly the true state of affairs.
The divine desire to heal was frustrated by the pollution and the
people's persistent ignoring of God. Hosea graphically describe...
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_Arms. I gave them my laws and power to resist the enemy. (Menochius)_...
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We have here a continuation of the same subject, namely, the Lord's
remonstrance with Israel. But I pray the Reader to observe, how many
sweet and gracious expressions of our God are mingled with his...
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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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IX. HOSEA 7:8-9 (NASB) EPHRAIM MIXES HIMSELF WITH THE NATIONS; EPHRAIM
HAS BECOME A CAKE NOT TURNED.
9 STRANGERS DEVOUR HIS STRENGTH, YET HE DOES NOT KNOW [IT]; GRAY HAIRS
ALSO ARE SPRINKLED ON HIM,...
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God again reproaches the Israelites for having in a base manner abused
his goodness and forbearance. Some consider the verb יסר, _isar,
_as meaning, “to chastise,” because God had disciplined the
Isra...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7.
Chapter 6 calls forth a touching address from the prophet, in which he
entreats the people to return to Jehovah. Faith has always this
resource, beca...
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THOUGH I HAVE BOUND [AND] STRENGTHENED THEIR ARMS,.... As a surgeon
sets a broken arm and swathes and binds it, and so restores it to its
former strength, or at least to a good degree of strength agai...
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Though I have bound [and] strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine
mischief against me.
Ver. 15. _Though I have bound and strengthened their arms_] _Quum ego
erudivi,_ so Pagnine, Polanus, and ot...
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_Though I have bound_, &c. Though, after bringing them low, I have
given them new strength and vigour; _yet do they imagine mischief
against me_ Yet they are continually devising some new idolatrous
i...
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HYPOCRISY REBUKED...
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Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, teaching them where
to get and how to use their strength, YET DO THEY IMAGINE MISCHIEF
AGAINST ME, by their idolatry and rebellion....
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HAVE BOUND:
Or, chastened...
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8-16 Israel was as a cake not turned, half burnt and half dough, none
of it fit for use; a mixture of idolatry and of the worship of
Jehovah. There were tokens of approaching ruin, as grey hairs are...
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THOUGH I; but as for me, or, And I. BOUND; or chastised, as the word
will bear; or instructed; either notion will well suit the place. When
I had chastised them for their sins, as in Jehoahaz's time,...
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EPHRAIM (ISRAEL) ARE PICTURED AS A HAPLESS DOVE FLUTTERING BETWEEN
EGYPT AND ASSYRIA AS THEY ENDEAVOUR TO AVOID YHWH'S NET (HOSEA 7:11).
Ephraim are now depicted as being willing to do anything rather...
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‘Though I have taught and strengthened their arms,
Yet they do devise mischief against me.'
And yet it was YHWH and not Baal Who had taught them and made their
arms strong. This may refer to the fact...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's response to Israel's, cry, continued. Israel's sad
state.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: If sinful souls are not healed and helped, but perish in
their sin and misery, they cannot...
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Hosea 7:1. _When I would have healed Israel,_ by Jehu's zeal for the
Lord, then the idolatrous priests, like troops of robbers, gathered
round him with lies in their mouth, and persuaded him to retain...
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_Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine
mischief against Me._
DIVINE DISPENSATIONS ABUSED
I. God’s dispensations with men are characterised by variety. The
events of hum...
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HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 7:4 Hosea compares Israel to an oven (vv. Hosea
7:4), a half-baked cake (vv. Hosea 7:8), a silly dove (vv....
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HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 7:14 GASH THEMSELVES. Probably to call on Baal
(see 1 Kings 18:28)....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
HOSEA 7:15. BOUND] Weakened and relaxed, an image from surgery
(_chastened_, marg.). “Instructing the arms, according to the
analogy of Psalms 18:35, is equivalent to showing where an...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter may be divided into three sections. In the first section,
including Hosea 7:1, the prophet reproves with much but deserved
severity the depraved morals of king and princes. In...
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The Lord continues His response to them.
When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was
discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood;
and the thief comes in...
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2 Corinthians 10:5; 2 Kings 13:23; 2 Kings 13:5; 2 Kings 14:25;...
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Bound — As a surgeon binds up a weak member, or a broken one; so did
God for Ephraim, when the Syrians and other enemies had broken their
arms. Imagine mischief — They devise mischief against my proph...