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Verse Hosea 4:17. _EPHRAIM_] The ten tribes.
IS _JOINED TO IDOLS_] Is become incorporated with false gods.
_LET HIM ALONE._] They are irreclaimable, leave them to the
consequences of their vicious c...
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EPHRAIM IS JOINED TO IDOLS - that is, banded, bound up with them,
“associated,” as the word means, with them so as to cleave to
them, willing neither to part with nor to be parted from, them. The
idol...
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II. THE MESSAGE OF EXPOSTULATION, JUDGMENT, AND MERCY
CHAPTER 4 The Lord's Controversy with His People
_ 1. The condition of the people (Hosea 4:1) _
2. The loss of their priestly relation (Hosea 4...
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THE UTTER CORRUPTION OF THE NATION TRACED TO IRRELIGION. (The text of
Hosea 4:15 is hopelessly corrupt. Marti regards Hosea 4:3 as an
insertion and Hosea 4:5_ a_ as foreign to their present context.)...
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JOINED. mated, or united to....
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Judah is cautioned not to fall into the same ruin as Israel, of which
a deterrent picture is given....
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_joined to idols_ The cognate noun is used in Malachi 2:14 of a wife
in her relation to her husband, and in Isaiah 44:11 of an
idol-worshipper in his mystic relation to his god (comp. 1 Corinthians
10...
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_A BACKSLIDING HEIFER -- HOSEA 4:16-19:_ In their relationship with
God Israel was nothing more than a stubborn cow. They had thrown off
the yoke and refused submission to God. God would now deal with...
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DISCOURSE: 1148
THE DANGER OF SPIRITUAL IDOLATRY
Hosea 4:17. _Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone_.
THERE is a day of grace, wherein God strives with men by his Spirit:
this past, he abandons t...
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ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDEJUDAH IS TO DEPART FROM HER
TEXT: Hosea 4:15-19
15
Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and
come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor...
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Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
EPHRAIM - the ten tribes. Judah was at this time not so given to
idolatry as afterward.
IS JOINED TO IDOLS - closely and voluntarily; identifying themse...
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THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING
HOSEA
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 4
THE *LORD ACCUSES ISRAEL
V1 People of Israel, listen to the *Lord’s message!
The *Lord will argue against the people that liv...
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EPHRAIM... IDOLS. — The prophet calls on Judah to leave Ephraim to
himself. The Jewish interpreters Rashi and Kimchi understand this as
the appeal of Jehovah to the prophet to leave Israel to her fate...
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חֲב֧וּר עֲצַבִּ֛ים אֶפְרָ֖יִם
הַֽנַּֽח ־לֹֽו׃...
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THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL
Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
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“JOINED TO IDOLS”
Hosea 4:11-19
The prophet does not mince his words in describing the morals of his
time. We are reminded of Bunyan's words: “My original and inward
pollution was my plague. It was a...
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In any attempt to analyze and tabulate the teaching in this second
division of the Book it must be remembered that the prophetic
utterances cannot be treated as verbatim reports. As they here appear,...
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_Partaker. Hebrew, "tied to abominations." --- Alone. His case is
desperate. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "he has placed stumbling-blocks
for himself." (Haydock)_...
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I beg the Reader to observe, for I think it is very observable, and
very blessed it is in the observance, what sweet minglings of grace is
here amidst the solemn and awful account the Lord gives of hi...
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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...
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The Futility of Sin
I. INTRODUCTION
A. As we continue the study of Hosea this morning - chapter 4 marks a
turn that continues through the rest of the book.
1. Hosea 8:7 a (NASB) Give us a hint as t...
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As if wearied, God here bids his Prophet to rest; as though he said,
“Since I prevail nothing with this people, they must be given up;
cease from thy work.” God had set Hosea over the Israelites for t...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 AND 5.
In chapter 4 we see that the prophet addresses the whole people
together. In Verse 15 (Hosea 4:15) he distinguishes Judah from Israel,
warning the fo...
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EPHRAIM IS JOINED TO IDOLS,.... That is, the ten tribes of Israel,
frequently so called after their separation from the rest, because
that Jeroboam, by whom the revolt was made, was of that tribe; and...
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Ephraim [is] joined to idols: let him alone.
Ver. 17. _Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone_] Ephraim, that
is, the ten revolted tribes, who are called Ephraim in opposition to
Judah: 1. Because...
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_Ephraim_, &c. The Ephraimites were numerous and potent, and are here
put for the whole ten tribes. _Is joined to idols_ The word
עצבים, here rendered _idols_, properly means, _sorrows_ and
_pains_, i...
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Ephraim, the northern kingdom, IS JOINED TO IDOLS, so linked with
idolatrous worship as to make it impossible for them to leave it alone
at this time; LET HIM ALONE, for it would be useless to try to...
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THE SECOND PART OF THE ACCUSATION...
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12-19 The people consulted images, and not the Divine word. This
would lead to disorder and sin. Thus men prepare scourges for
themselves, and vice is spread through a people. Let not Judah come
near...
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The children of Ephraim were numerous and potent among the ten tribes,
a principal part of them, and out of which tribe the first idolater
and usurper did arise, 1 KINGS 11:26; and therefore the whole...
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Hosea 4:17 Ephraim H669 joined H2266 (H8803) idols H6091 alone H3240
(H8685)
Ephraim - Hosea 11:2,
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‘Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone.'
Indeed all are to recognise that Ephraim (Israel) is conjoined with
idols (like mistresses to their lovers, or men bound by a covenant)
and is therefore to...
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STRONG WINE AND ILLICIT SEX HAVE TURNED THE PEOPLE'S MINDS SO THAT
THEY LOOK TO BITS OF WOOD CONCERNING THEIR FUTURE AND PLAY THE HARLOT
ON THE TOPS OF MOUNTAINS AND UNDER SACRED TREES RATHER THAN LOO...
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HABAKKUK; Book of, Introduction,
(_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 1:1). _
HABAKKUK; quoted by Paul,
(_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 1:5). _
HABAKKUK; vision of, explained,
( See Scofield) - ...
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Hosea 4:17
Spiritual abandonment.
I. We are apt to be surprised at the proneness of the Israelites to
the sin of idolatry. And yet it may be doubted whether _we_have not a
great deal in common with i...
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CONTENTS: Charges against Israel for their sinfulness, idolatry and
ignorance.
CHARACTERS: God, Hosea.
CONCLUSION: It is a sad and sore judgment for men when God has to say,
«let them alone» giving...
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Hosea 4:1. _Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel._ Here a
new sermon is built upon a new revelation.
Hosea 4:2. _Blood toucheth blood,_ as explained in the words
preseding, adultery upon a...
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_Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone._
BEWARE OF UNHOLY COMPANIONSHIPS
These words do not mean that nothing was to be done for Ephraim. The
prophets again and again pleaded with that people. “...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
HOSEA 4:15. COME NOT] by pilgrimages to places of idolatrous worship.
SWEAR NOT] in temples of idols. “The confession of Jehovah is
hypocrisy in the mouth of an idolater; pretended p...
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EXPOSITION
HOSEA 4:1
A new and distinct division of the book commences with this fourth
chapter and continues till the close. What had previously been
presented in figure and symbol is now plainly an...
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Now we enter into the second part of the book of Hosea, where he
declares:
HEAR the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD has a
controversy with the inhabitants of the land (Hsa Hosea...
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Hosea 11:2; Hosea 12:1; Hosea 13:2; Hosea 4:4; Matthew 15:14;...
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Ephraim — The children of Ephraim were numerous and potent, and here
put for the whole ten tribes. Let him alone — He is obstinate, as
such, throw him up....