Hosea 8 - Introduction
_DESTRUCTION IS THREATENED FOR THEIR IMPIETY AND IDOLATRY._ _Before Christ 760._... [ Continue Reading ]
_DESTRUCTION IS THREATENED FOR THEIR IMPIETY AND IDOLATRY._ _Before Christ 760._... [ Continue Reading ]
SET THE TRUMPET TO THY MOUTH— _Let the trumpet in thy mouth sound against the house of Judah._ Houbigant. Hosea in this and the three following verses prophesies against Judah. Those who follow our interpretation suppose, that by the eagle here spoken of is meant Nebuchadnezzar. See Ezekiel 17:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
ISRAEL SHALL CRY— _They shall cry._... [ Continue Reading ]
ISRAEL HATH CAST OFF— _Israel, Israel,_ &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
THY CALF, O SAMARIA— Houbigant reads these verses thus: _Mine anger is kindled against them: when will they attain to innocency? Thy calf, O Samaria, shall be cast off: It had Israel for its founder: the workman made it; nor is it a god. Therefore the calf of Samaria shall be consumed in the fire._... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THEY HAVE SOWN THE WIND, &C.— _Because they have sown the wind, they shall reap the whirlwind: The stalk shall be without grain: It shall yield no meal; and if it yield it, strangers shall devour it._ These proverbial expressions are used to signify that the rewards of men will always be accordi... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THEY ARE GONE UP TO ASSYRIA— These verses are connected with that preceding, and are thus translated by Houbigant: _Because they go to the Assyrian, though the Assyrian is nothing more than a wild ass,_ [one who has no regard for any thing but himself,] Hosea 8:10. _Ephraim sends love-presents:... [ Continue Reading ]
BECAUSE EPHRAIM HATH MADE, &C.— This verse may be thus paraphrased: "Since Ephraim, forsaking God, and that one altar, at which alone he required them to serve him, idolatrously multiplied altars to themselves,—altars against his command; (to do which was manifestly a sin in them;) therefore should... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE WRITTEN, &C.— _And thus will I inscribe him_ [_Ephraim_]; _they who were the masters_ [or _teachers_] _of my law, are esteemed as strangers;_ "are become utterly useless;" Hosea 8:8. God supported the Jews, that they might support the true religion; which as they had now neglected to do, ther... [ Continue Reading ]