Israel is an empty vine— Houbigant, after most of the ancients, reads, Israel was a fertile vine, which abounded in fruit; but, fruitful as it was, it abused the blessings of God to the purposes of sin and idolatry.
CHAPTER X _This chapter treats of the same subject, but elegantly varied._ _It begins with comparing Israel to a fruitful vine but_ _corrupted by too much prosperity_, 1. _It next reproves and thr...
ISRAEL IS AN EMPTY VINE - Or, in the same sense, “a luxuriant vine;” literally, “one which poureth out,” poureth itself out into leaves, abundant in switches, (as most old versions explain it,) luxuri...
CHAPTER 9:10-11:11 RETROSPECT, ISRAEL'S FAILURE AND RUIN _ 1. Israel once beloved, now fugitive wanderers (Hosea 9:10) _ 2. Their guilt and punishment (Hosea 10:1) 3. Exhortation and rebuke (Hosea...
GOD'S ANNIHILATING JUDGMENT ON THE MIXED CULTUS. With the land's abounding prosperity Israel has multiplied altars in the service of the mixed cultus; these Yahweh will destroy (Hosea 10:1 f.) Their p...
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 ref...
ISRAEL IS AN EMPTY VINE -- HOSEA 10:1-4 : Israel was a very selfish and idolatrous nation. God had made them into a healthy vine covered with grapes. Sadly, the more prosperous they became the more al...
DISCOURSE: 1167 BRINGING FORTH FRUIT TO OURSELVES Hosea 10:1. _Israelis an empty vine; he bringeth forth fruit unto himself_. IN order to judge aright of our actions, we must examine the principles f...
REPROVINGISRAEL FELL INTO ANARCHY TEXT: Hosea 10:1-11 1 Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to...
Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images...
10:1 himself. (g-11) Or 'fruit according to what he is.' statues. (h-34) See Note, ch. 3.4....
EMPTY] RV 'luxuriant,' with reference to the prosperity of Israel. The more he prospered, the more he multiplied his heathenish altars and symbols. FRUIT UNTO HIMSELF] RV 'his fruit.' IMAGES] RV 'pill...
DENUNCIATIONS AND ENTREATIES This prophecy appears to have been uttered at a later date than the last. There is no longer any mention of Egypt, but the calamity from Assyria seems imminent. Again Hos...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 10 THE RICHES OF ISRAEL LEAD TO HER *WORSHIP OF *IDOLS V1 Israel is like a *vine that grows plenty of fruit. But Israel became...
X. (1) EMPTY in the English version is wrong, being inconsistent with what follows. (Comp. LXX. and Vulg.) Read _luxuriant._ The metaphors of the vintage (comp. also Genesis 49:22, and _Introduction_...
גֶּ֤פֶן בֹּוקֵק֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל פְּרִ֖י יְשַׁוֶּה ־לֹּ֑ו...
5. ONCE MORE: PUPPET-KINGS AND PUPPET-GODS Hosea 10:1 For another section, the tenth chapter, the prophet returns to the twin targets of his scorn: the idols and the puppet-kings. But few notes are...
“BREAK UP YOUR FALLOW GROUND” Hosea 10:1-15 Israel brought forth fruit, but not such as God could delight in. It was corrupt and evil. How great a disappointment to the Great Cultivator! The land was...
The section dealing with pollution and its punishment closes with the prophet's recapitulation and appeal. The whole case is first stated under the figure of the vine. Israel was a luxuriant vine, and...
Israel [is] an (a) empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the (b) goodness of his land they have made good...
_Branches. Septuagint, "Wood." Symmachus, This is all: it yields no fruit. Protestants, "empty." (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "plucked." The grapes are taken away, as the Israelites were; though they boasted...
CONTENTS The same subject of reproof and expostulation forms the burden of this Chapter. The Lord, by his servant the Prophet, is still speaking to Israel. Hosea 10:1 Reader! do pray remark the chan...
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...
Interpreters explain this verse in various ways. Those who think בוקק, _bukok, _here applied to the vine, means “empty,” are mistaken; for the Prophet means rather, that Israel was like a vine, which...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9, 10, AND 11. In CHAPTER 9 we have here that touching mixture of affection and judgment which we find again and again in this prophet. Ephraim should not rem...
ISRAEL [IS] AN EMPTY VINE,.... The people of Israel are often compared to a vine, and such an one from whence fruit might be expected, being planted in a good soil, and well taken care of; see Psalms...
Israel [is] an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly image...
_Israel is an empty vine_ The Hebrew, גפן בוקק, may either signify, _an empty_, or _emptying vine._ If we take it in the former sense, the meaning is, Israel is a vine which has no fruit on it; that i...
Israel is an empty vine, a thriving, climbing vine; HE BRINGETH FORTH FRUIT UNTO HIMSELF, growing up with every indication of strength and fruitfulness, but utterly selfish and godless in aim; ACCORDI...
THE SEATS OF WORSHIP DESTROYED...
AN EMPTY VINE, HE BRINGETH FORTH FRUIT: Or, a vine emptying the fruit which it giveth IMAGES: _ Heb._ statues, or standing images...
1-8 A vine is only valuable for its fruit; but Israel now brought no fruit to perfection. Their hearts were divided. God is the Sovereign of the heart; he will have all, or none. Were the stream of t...
HOSEA CHAPTER 10 Israel is reproved and threatened for their impiety and idolatry, and exhorted to repentance. Israel and Ephraim are terms our prophet doth ordinarily use, and they signify the same p...
Hosea 10:1 Israel H3478 empties H1238 (H8802) vine H1612 forth H7737 (H8762) fruit H6529 multitude H7230 fruit...
‘Israel is a luxuriant vine, Which puts forth his fruit. In accordance with the abundance of his fruit, He has multiplied his altars, In accordance with the goodness of their land, They have made...
ISRAEL'S ‘FRUITFULNESS' IS REVEALED BY THEIR SETTING UP A MULTIPLICITY OF ALTARS AND RELIGIOUS PILLARS, DECLARING THAT THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE TO NO ONE, AND DO NOT FEAR GOD, BUT THEY WILL SHORTLY DISCOV...
Hosea 10:1. _Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself:_ Not to his God. It matters not how much fruit we bear if it is for self, we are really fruitless. A thing which is good in...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Further reproof for Israel's impiety. CHARACTERS: God, Jareb, King of Israel. CONCLUSION: If the grace of God prevail not to destroy the love of sin in us, i...
Hosea 10:1. _Israel is an empty vine._ So is the Hebrew, but the LXX read, “a well-branched vine;” that is, full of leaves, but destitute of fruit. Their fruits are the fruits of idolatry. The figures...
_Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself._ THE ABUSE OF WORLDLY PROSPERITY Our version is faulty here. Elzas renders, “Israel is a luxurious vine, whose fruit is very abundant....
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 10:1 For the image of Israel as a VINE, see Psalms 80:8; Jeremiah 2:
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 10:1. EMPTY] Luxuriant. Lit. poureth out, emptying itself into leaves; stretching itself far and wide towards foreign alliances (Psalms 80:9; Psalms 80:12); outwardly prosperous...
EXPOSITION The concluding thought of the last chapter is the commencing one of this; while the sad subject of Israel's guilt being resumed continues in the first section (Hosea 10:1) of the chapter, a...
Shall we turn to Hosea, chapter 10. It is God's purpose for our lives that we bring forth fruit. In Isaiah chapter 6 God likens the nation of Israel to a vineyard that was planted with good plants, th...
1 Kings 14:23; 2 Corinthians 5:16; Ezekiel 15:1; Hosea 12:11; Ho
An empty vine — That hath lost its strength to bring forth fruit. Unto himself — Whatever fruit was brought forth by its remaining strength, was not brought forth to God. His fruit — When the land yie...