AN EMPTY VINE. a productive or luxurious vine. Hebrew. vine emptying or yielding its fruit. See notes on Judges 9:8. Hebrew. _gephen._ Always feminine except here and 2 Kings 4:39. Here because it refers to Israel: i.e. to the people. FRUIT. Note the Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6) in the var... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR HEART IS DIVIDED. Compare 1 Kings 18:21. 2Ki 17:32, 2 Kings 17:33; 2 Kings 17:41. FOUND FAULTY. held guilty. Referring back to Hosea 9:17. HE SHALL, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 23:24; Exodus 34:13.Deuteronomy 7:5; Deuteronomy 12:3).... [ Continue Reading ]
DO TO US: do for us, or, profit us.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEMLOCK. poppy. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 29:18; Deuteronomy 32:32; Deuteronomy 32:33). App-92. Elsewhere only in Job, Psalms, Jeremiah, and Amos 5:7; Amos 6:12. IN THE FURROWS. Some codices, with four early printed editions (one Rabbinic, margin), read "all the furrows... [ Continue Reading ]
SAMARIA. See Hosea 10:7; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:5; Hosea 8:6; Hosea 13:16. BETH-AVEN. See note on Hosea 4:15. PRIESTS. Hebrew. _kemarim =_ priests of Baal, or black ones, from _kamar =_ to be black, from the black dress (or cassocks) worn by them. Occurs only here and 2 Kings 23:5.Zephaniah 1:4. r [ Continue Reading ]
KING JAREB. See note on Hosea 5:13. COUNSEL: i.e. the policy of Jeroboam.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THE FOAM, &C.. on the face of the waters. Ref to Pentateuch (Genesis 1:2; Genesis 7:18). App-92.... [ Continue Reading ]
SIN. Hebrew. _chata._ App-44. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the idols associated with it. Compare Deuteronomy 9:21; 1 Kings 12:30. THE THORN AND THE THISTLE. Ref to Pentateuch (Genesis 3:18). This combination of words occurs only in these two places. "Thorns" is found... [ Continue Reading ]
SINNED. Hebrew. _chata_. App-44. FROM: or, beyond. the days of Gibeah. See Hosea 9:9 and Judges 19 and Judges 20. Note the Article. THERE THEY STOOD. In battle array. CHILDREN. sons. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'alvah._ Occurs only here, from Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44. DID NOT OVERTAKE THEM. Supply the... [ Continue Reading ]
IT IS IN MY DESIRE, &C.. I am resolved to. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:63). PEOPLE. peoples WHEN THEY SHALL BIND. they being joined (or yoked) [in cohabitation. Put for idolatries] together in committing idolatry. TWO FURROWS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for being... [ Continue Reading ]
AND EPHRAIM. i.e. the land of Ephraim. Here is the contrast. See note on "watchman", Hosea 9:8. AN HEIFER. Compare Jeremiah 50:11.Micah 4:13. PASSED OVER UPON. put. yoke upon. JACOB. Put here by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for Ephraim.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO SEEK THE LORD. Ref to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:29). App-92. RAIN RIGHTEOUSNESS, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:2).... [ Continue Reading ]
YE HAVE PLOWED. Ye have sown. Heb, _harashtem._ Occurs, with this spelling, only here and Judges 14:18. The _Massorah_ (App-30 and App-93) places it in an alphabetical list of words, occurring twice, with two different meanings (see Ginsburg's _Massorah,_ vol. i, p. 498). It is therefore. _Homonym_... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALMAN. Sayce thinks he is Salamanu, king of Moab,. tributary of Tiglath-Pileser III (Compare Hosea 1:1); therefore. contemporary of Hosea. BETH-ARBEL. Hebrew. _Beth-'arbeel =_ house of the ambush of GOD (Hebrew El. App-4. IV). Hebrew margin reads _Beth_. _'arbel,_ so as to disguise the name El an... [ Continue Reading ]
YOUR GREAT WICKEDNESS. Hebrew "evil of your evil". Note the Figure of speech _P_ olypto _t_ on (App-6), Hebrew. _ra'a'._ IN. MORNING. Some codices, with two early printed editions (one Rabbinic, margin), read "like the dawn". SHALL THE KING OF ISRAEL. Compare Hosea 10:7, The king referred to may b... [ Continue Reading ]