Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Hosea 12:7
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.
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.
Verse Hosea 12:7. HE IS _A MERCHANT_] Or a _Canaanite_; referring to the _Phoenicians_, famous for their traffic. Ephraim is as corrupt as those heathenish traffickers were. He kept, as many in all ag...
HE IS A MERCHANT - Or, indignantly, “a merchant in whose hands are the balances of deceit!” How could they love “mercy and justice,” whose trade was “deceit,” who weighed out deceit with their goods?...
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 ...
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...
HE IS. MERCHANT. Supply the _Ellipsis_ (App-6): [He, Ephraim, is]. merchant. This is the first of two provocations. See the Structure above; and Compare Hosea 12:14. THE BALANCES OF DECEIT. unjust ba...
_He is a merchant_, &c. Rather, CANAAN! IN HIS HAND ARE DECEITFUL BALANCES; HE LOVETH TO EXTORT. The geographical term -Canaan" simply means -lowland", and therefore might be, and was, applied to Phœn...
_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...
REQUITINGEPHRAIM HAS PROVOKED TEXT: Hosea 12:7-14 7 He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me...
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. HE IS A MERCHANT - a play on the double sense of the Hebrew, "Canaan," i:e., a Canaanite and a "merchant" (, "Thy bir...
12:7 merchant, (c-4) Lit. 'Canaan [is he];' see Ezekiel 17:4 . oppress. (d-15) Or 'to defraud.'...
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...
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...
HE IS A MERCHANT. — The vivid and fierce light of the prophet’s words is obscured in the English version. The rendering “he is a merchant” originates from the fact that Canaan (rendered “merchant”) is...
_[Hosea 12:8]_ כְּנַ֗עַן בְּ יָדֹ֛ו מֹאזְנֵ֥י מִרְמָ֖ה...
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...
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...
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...
[He is] (g) a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress. (g) As for Ephraim, he is more like the wicked Canaanites than godly Abraham or Jacob....
_Chanaan. The Ph\'9cnicians were so called, and all merchants. Here the title is given reproachfully (Calmet) to all the posterity of Jacob. (Haydock) --- None more ignominious could be used, Daniel x...
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...
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...
But while the Prophet exhorted the Israelites to repentance, he adds, that such was their perverseness, that it was done without any fruit._Canaan! _he says; I read this by itself; for what some consi...
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...
[HE IS] A MERCHANT,.... Here is a change of person from "thou" to "he", from Judah to Ephraim, who is said to be a "merchant"; and if that was all, there is nothing worthy of dispraise in it; but he w...
Hosea 12:7 [He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress. Ver. 7. _He is a merchant_] Heb. He is Canaan that is, a mere natural man, Ezekiel 16:3, money merchant,...
_He is a merchant_, &c. Bishop Horsley renders this verse thus: _Canaan the trafficker! The cheating balances in his hand! He has set his heart upon over-reaching!_ On which the bishop observes, “God...
ANOTHER SERIOUS REPROACH...
He is a merchant, rather, "Canaan," the name here applied to the northern kingdom, since, like a dishonest merchant, he sought greatness by deceit and oppression, THE BALANCES OF DECEIT ARE IN HIS HAN...
A MERCHANT: Or, Canaan OPPRESS: Or, deceive...
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...
HE IS A MERCHANT; Ephraim, of whom here, is so far from being Jacob, or as Jacob, that you may call and account him a Canaanite, a subtle merchant. THE BALANCES OF DECEIT ARE IN HIS HAND; what he cann...
Hosea 12:7 Canaanite H3667 Deceitful H4820 scales H3976 hand H3027 loves H157 (H8804) oppress H6231 (H8800)...
‘A trafficker (a Canaanite), the balances of deceit are in his hand, he loves to oppress.' But Hosea had no illusions about what Israel really were at that time, and he adds the terse comment above, w...
AN APPEAL IS MADE TO JACOB'S EXAMPLE WHICH SIMPLY SERVES TO REVEAL ISRAEL'S PARLOUS STATE AND GUARANTEES THE COMING JUDGMENT OF DESTRUCTION AND THE EXILE BUT IT IS WITH THE PROMISE OF FINAL RESTORATIO...
YHWH MAKES A FURTHER APPEAL TO EPHRAIM AND JUDAH ON THE BASIS OF WHAT THEIR ANCESTOR JACOB DID (HOSEA 12:1). Having first stressed Ephraim's total folly and unacceptable deceitfulness, and the fact th...
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...
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...
_He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress, etc._ FORTUNES I. Fortunes badly used. 1. Here there is no recognition of human co-operation. No man comes in posses...
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. ⇐...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 12:5 Hosea again reminds Israel of their spiritual heritage. MEMORIAL NAME. See Exodus 3:15. God’s choosing of Israel is the reason Israel can now retur
CRITICAL NOTES.] Hosea 12:7. Merchant] Marg. a Canaanite, a heathen, unlike Israel, to whom Canaanites were a reproach (Ezekiel 16:3). OPPRESS] Lit. deceive. Men whose trade is deceit, whose balance...
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...
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...
1 Samuel 12:3; 1 Timothy 6:10; 1 Timothy 6:9; Amos 2:7; Amos 3:9;...
A merchant — Ephraim is so far from being as Jacob, that you may account him a Canaanite, a subtle merchant....