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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 12:14

Ephraim.. bitterly] In spite of all this kindness Ephraim had provoked God to great anger. His blood] plural, meaning 'bloodshed.' The blood which he has shed shall not be wiped off, but remain in God's eye, a witness of his crime. For a somewhat similar idea cp. Genesis 4:10. His reproach] God will punish him for his reproach, i.e. for his scornful contempt of God: cp. 2 Kings 19:4; 2 Kings 19:22.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 12:14. _THEREFORE SHALL HE LEAVE HIS BLOOD UPON HIM_] He will not remove his guilt. These are similar to our Lord's words, John 3:36; John 9:41: "He that believeth not on the Son of God,...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    EPHRAIM PROVOKED - the Lord most bitterly Literally, “with bitternesses,” i. e., with most heinous sins, such as are most grievously displeasing to God, and were a most bitter requital of all His good...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    EPHRAIRN. As represented by Jeroboam (1 Kings 12:25; 1 Kings 13:5), and Hoshea (2 Kings 17:11). HE. God. BLOOD. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), App-6, for blood-guiltiness....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This verse would be less abrupt if it immediately followed Hosea 12:11, of which it might be taken to furnish a fuller justification. _provoked_ Rather, HATH PROVOKED. _therefore shall he leave his b...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Not Israel, but Canaan should he be called; for his ideal is Canaan's. The end justifies the means, and his end is to become rich! But how bitterly will he be disappointed. He must in short begin his...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _ISRAEL PROVOKED GOD TO ANGER -- HOSEA 12:11-14:_ Gilead was a large area in Palestine known for producing many healing items but they had become terribly sinful. Now they will end up in ruin. Bulls w...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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 _Ephrai...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him. EPHRAIM PROVOKED HIM TO ANGER MOST BITTERLY - "Him," i:e....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    But the rift in the clouds closes again, and another severe rebuke follows. “Jacob” and “Israel” give place to the proud tribal name of Ephraim. This portion of the whole house of Israel incurs the ch...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Hosea 12:15]_ הִכְעִ֥יס אֶפְרַ֖יִם תַּמְרוּרִ֑ים וְ דָמָיו֙...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Him. He shall suffer for his crimes. (Menochius) --- He can blame only himself. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Holy Ghost is here again pleased to refer to the history of Jacob, and affectionately speaks of him and his love. But if Jacob be so spoken of under those endearments of character; what must we sa...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS PAUSE, Reader! and behold how God honored the Patriarch Jacob, a thousand years after his ashes had been mouldering in the dust! Behold what praise the Lord bestowed upon his servant's gal...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet says first, that _Ephraim had provoked God by his high places _Some, however, take the word תמרורים, _tamerurim, _for bitternesses. Then it is, “Israel or Ephraim have provoked God to bitt...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    EPHRAIM PROVOKED [HIM] TO ANGER MOST BITTERLY,.... The Vulgate Latin version supplies it, me; that is, God, as Kimchi; or his Lord, as it may be supplied from the last clause of the verse; the sense i...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Ephraim provoked [him] to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him. Ver. 14. _Ephraim hath provoked him to anger, most bitterl...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Ephraim provoked him to anger_, &c. Notwithstanding all God's favours showed to these people and their ancestors, they provoked him by their idolatries and other sins in a most outrageous manner. The...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Ephraim provoked Him to anger most bitterly, in spite of all the blessings which God had showered upon His people; THEREFORE SHALL HE, the Lord, LEAVE HIS BLOOD UPON HIM, leave Israel in his blood-gui...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ANOTHER SERIOUS REPROACH...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    BLOOD: _ Heb._ bloods...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    EPHRAIM PROVOKED HIM TO ANGER MOST BITTERLY: after all the means used from time to time to reclaim idolatrous sinning Israel, yet still they provoked God to indignation by their idolatries, perjuries,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 12:14 Ephraim H669 anger H3707 (H8689) bitterly H8563 Lord H113 leave H5203 (H8799) bloodshed H1818 return...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Ephraim has provoked to anger most bitterly, therefore will his blood be left on him, and his reproach will his Lord return to him.' Once again Hosea ends a passage with a judgment on Israel. He had...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HAVING MADE HIS APPEAL FOR REPENTANCE HOSEA NOW INDICATES THAT EPHRAIM ARE SO CONFIDENT IN THEMSELVES THAT THEIR ONLY HOPE WILL BE AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN ‘BROUGHT DOWN A PEG OR TWO' (HOSEA 12:8). This p...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Therefore shall He leave his blood upon him._ THE BLOOD-FIGURE: SIN AND GUILT LEFT UPON THE SINNER That is, he shall bring his sin upon his own head. Those that be wilful in sin, their blood be upon...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] Hosea 12:11. Vanity] The question strengthens the affirmation. All was to no purpose. Warnings unheeded, altars as numerous as heaps of stones gathered out of the field, and scenes...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 2:33; 1 Kings 2:34; 1 Samuel 2:30; 2 Kings 17:7; 2 Samuel 1:16

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    His blood — He shall bear the punishment of all his blood; his murders of the innocent, and his own guilt too. His reproach — Which Ephraim hath cast upon the prophets, the worshippers of God, and on...

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