Hosea 12 - Introduction
_A REPROOF OF EPHRAIM, JUDAH, AND JACOB. BY FORMER FAVOURS HE EXHORTETH TO REPENTANCE. EPHRAIM'S SINS PROVOKE GOD._ _Before Christ 725._... [ Continue Reading ]
_A REPROOF OF EPHRAIM, JUDAH, AND JACOB. BY FORMER FAVOURS HE EXHORTETH TO REPENTANCE. EPHRAIM'S SINS PROVOKE GOD._ _Before Christ 725._... [ Continue Reading ]
LIES AND DESOLATIONS— _Perfidiousness and violence._ Houbigant reads the next clause, _They make a covenant with the Assyrians, whilst in the mean time oil is carried into Egypt._ That is, "While they were in covenant with the Assyrians, they were secretly and perfidiously seeking an alliance with t... [ Continue Reading ]
YEA, HE HAD POWER OVER THE ANGEL, &C.— Concerning this translation, see the notes on Genesis 32. Houbigant reads the last clause of the verse, _And there he spake with him: even Jehovah God of Hosts,_ Hosea 12:5.: therefore the angel with whom Jacob wrestled—the angel of the covenant—is Jehovah God... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD IS HIS MEMORIAL— The person, of whom it is here said, that the name _Lord_ or JEHOVAH _is his memorial,_ is no other than he whom the patriarch found at Beth-el, who there spake with the Israelites in the loins of their progenitor. He, whom the patriarch found at Beth-el, who there, in that... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE TURN THOU, &C.— From these words we learn on what account that which is said concerning Jacob, and concerning God, is spoken; and how it so concerned the Israelites of Hosea's time, as that this exhortation should be thence inferred to them. With respect to the things which are mentioned c... [ Continue Reading ]
HE IS A MERCHANT, &C.— _Canaan holds the balances of deceit in his hands;_ Ephraim is so called, because he imitates the practice of fraudulent merchants.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN ALL MY LABOURS, &C.— _My labours shall be my own nor shall the iniquity be found out, wherein I have sinned._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I—WILL YET MAKE, &C.— _I, the Lord thy God, brought thee out of the land of Egypt, till I gave thee such a habitation in tents as thou hast in the days of the solemn feast;_ meaning that of _tabernacles._... [ Continue Reading ]
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 deliver. _Secondly, vision,_ or a _representation_ made of _external objects_ to the imagination, in... [ Continue Reading ]
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, in one of which was Gilead, were now subdued by Tiglath-Pileser, when the prophet delivered this. He... [ Continue Reading ]
AND FOR A WIFE HE KEPT SHEEP— _And for a wife was he detained._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHRAIM PROVOKED HIM, &C.— _Ephraim hath provoked the extremest anger. His blood shall be sprinkled upon him; and his reproach,_ &c. Houbigant. REFLECTIONS.—1st, We have here, 1. The folly of _Ephraim;_ he _feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east-wind,_ entertaining fallacious hopes, and cour... [ Continue Reading ]