-
Verse Hosea 9:8. _THE WATCHMAN OF EPHRAIM_] The true prophet, _was_
_with_-faithful to, _God_.
_THE PROPHET_] The _false prophet_ is the _snare of a fowler_; is
continually deceiving the people, and...
-
THE WATCHMAN OF EPHRAIM WAS WITH MY GOD - These words may well
contrast the office of the true prophet with the false. For Israel had
had many true prophets, and such was Hosea himself now. The true
p...
-
CHAPTER 8:1-9:9
The Apostasy is Followed by Judgment
_ 1. The judgment announced (Hosea 8:1) _
2. The apostasy which resulted in judgment (Hosea 8:8)
3. Warning against self-security (Hosea 9:1)...
-
THE JOYLESS DISCIPLINE OF EXILE. The delirious joy of the popular
nature-religion shall soon be exchanged for the sorrows of exile. In
her own land Israel had treacherously ascribed to the Baalim the...
-
THE WATCHMAN. Note the series of contrasts, what Ephraim had been, and
what Ephraim had now become, which commences here; with remarks
following each. See Hosea 9:10 and Hosea 9:13; Hosea 10:1;...
-
A vivid picture of the bitterness of the calamity in prospect. It does
but equal the Gibeah-like wickedness of Israel....
-
_The watchman of Ephraim was with my God_ Rather, IS WITH MY GOD.
There is a various reading -his God" (so also Rashi), but -my God" can
be well defended; for the watchman spoken of is Hosea himself....
-
_ISRAEL SEPARATED THEMSELVES UNTO SHAME -- HOSEA 9:7-10_ : The time
had now come that Israel would receive what they deserved. The sad
thing is that Israel knew it too. They knew that they deserved th...
-
THE WATCHMAN OF EPHRAIM WAS WITH MY GOD— It should be, _is with his
God._ The watchman is here evidently a title, by which some faithful
prophet is distinguished from the temporizers and seducers. But...
-
LOVE REBUKING Hosea 9:1, Hosea 13:16
REPROVINGISRAEL FORSOOK GOD
TEXT: Hosea 9:1-9
1
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou hast played
the harlot, departing from thy God; thou...
-
The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare
of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
THE WATCHMAN OF EPHRAIM WAS WITH MY GOD. The spiritual watchman,...
-
9:8 God? (a-7) Or 'Ephraim is on the watch [looking to others] besides
my God.'...
-
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING
HOSEA
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 9
HOSEA TELLS ISRAEL THAT GOD WILL PUNISH HER
V1 People of Israel, do not be happy.
Do not shout for joy like the other nations...
-
PROPHET. — Many hold that here (as in the previous verse) this word
is used in a bad sense (false prophet), and standing contrasted with
“the watchman of Ephraim” (or true prophet, Hosea himself,
Jere...
-
צֹפֶ֥ה אֶפְרַ֖יִם עִם ־אֱלֹהָ֑י
נָבִ֞יא פַּ֤ח...
-
3. THE EFFECTS OF EXILE
Hosea 9:1
Hosea now turns to describe the effects of exile upon the social and
religious habits of the people. It must break up at once the joy and
the sacredness of their liv...
-
“THE DAYS OF RECOMPENSE ARE COME”
Hosea 9:1-9
The subject of this chapter is the bitterness of the captivity which
was awaiting Israel as the result of their unfaithfulness. Their exile
would put an...
-
The judgment was then described in detail. Its first note was of the
death of joy. Israel could not find her joy like other peoples. She
had gone whoring from God, loving hire on every threshing floor...
-
The watchman of Ephraim (i) [was] with my God: [but] the prophet [is]
a snare of a fowler in all his ways, [and] hatred in the house of his
God.
(i) The Prophet's duty is to bring men to God, and not...
-
My God. I am such; but the false prophets strive to seduce you.
(Calmet) --- Jeroboam ought to have restrained the people, and he did
the reverse, setting up a calf at Bethel, which proved more ruinou...
-
Reader! do not fail still to pursue the subject with an eye to the
Lord's grace, for the whole Chapter is full of it. The Lord, to whose
comprehensive view, all things past, present, and future, form...
-
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...
-
XII. HOSEA 9:7 (NASB) THE DAYS OF PUNISHMENT HAVE COME, THE DAYS OF
RETRIBUTION HAVE COME; LET ISRAEL KNOW [THIS]! THE PROPHET IS A FOOL,
THE INSPIRED MAN IS DEMENTED, BECAUSE OF THE GROSSNESS OF YOUR...
-
Interpreters obscure this verse by their various opinions. Almost all
suppose a verb to be understood that Ephraim “had set” a watchman.
But I see no need to make any change in the words of the Prophe...
-
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9, 10, AND 11.
In CHAPTER 9 we have here that touching mixture of affection and
judgment which we find again and again in this prophet. Ephraim should
not rem...
-
THE WATCHMAN OF EPHRAIM [WAS] WITH MY GOD,.... Formerly the watchmen
of Ephraim, or the prophets of Israel, were with the true God, whom
the prophet calls his God; as Elijah and Elisha, who had commun...
-
The watchman of Ephraim [was] with my God: [but] the prophet [is] a
snare of a fowler in all his ways, [and] hatred in the house of his
God.
Ver. 8. _The watchman of Ephraim was with my God_] _i.e._...
-
_The watchman of Ephraim was with my God_ Or, as some read. it, on the
authority of divers MSS., אלהיו, _his God_, or, as the LXX. read
it, _with God._ “The watchman is here evidently a title by which...
-
The watchman of Ephraim was with my God, literally, "A seer (or
searcher) is Ephraim with my God," beside the true God; that is,
instead of relying upon the revelations received by Hosea, the
children...
-
WARNING AGAINST FALSE SECURITY...
-
IN:
Or, against...
-
7-10 Time had been when the spiritual watchmen of Israel were with
the Lord, but now they were like the snare of a fowler to entangle
persons to their ruin. The people were become as corrupt as those...
-
THE WATCHMAN OF EPHRAIM WAS WITH MY GOD; the old true prophets indeed
were with God, heard what he spake, and told it to the people; they
were for God, for his honour, law, worship, and temple; and so...
-
Hosea 9:8 watchman H6822 (H8802) Ephraim H669 God H430 prophet H5030
fowlers H3352 snare H6341 Enmity H4895 house...
-
‘Is Ephraim a watchman?
Are the people of my God a prophet?
A fowler's snare is in all his ways,
Enmity in the house of his God.'
Hosea then sarcastically asks the people whether they thought that...
-
ISRAEL MUST NOT REJOICE AT THEIR HARVEST FEAST BECAUSE EVERYTHING WILL
SHORTLY BE TAKEN FROM THEM WHEN THEY ARE EXILED TO EGYPT/ASSYRIA
BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY HAVE BECOME AND BECAUSE OF HOW THEY HAVE TR...
-
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Israel's coming distress
because of sin.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: Joy is a forbidden fruit to those who have broken covenant
with God, until they return...
-
Hosea 9:1. _Rejoice not, oh Israel,_ with the shouts of harvest, and
the songs of the vintage, as all heathen nations have done, and have
ascribed their harvests to their idols; for God was about to d...
-
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 9:1 God will punish Israel by sending her people
away from the land, to a place where they will not be able to make
offerings to the Lord.
⇐...
-
CRITICAL NOTES.—
HOSEA 9:5. SOLEMN DAY] God “singles out the great festivals which
commemorated his great doings for his people as though they had no
more share in these mercies.” Sad to be deprived...
-
EXPOSITION
HOSEA 9:1
Contain a warning against security arising from temporary prosperity.
HOSEA 9:1
REJOICE NOT, O ISRAEL, FOR JOY, AS OTHER PEOPLE. The occasion on which
the prophet penned this s...
-
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have gone a
whoring from your God, you have loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
The floor in the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wi...
-
1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:1; 1 Kings 18:19; 1 Kings 18:36; 1 King
-
The watchman — The old true prophets indeed were with God. My God
— The God of Hosea. The prophet — The false prophets have, as well
as the people, left God. Is a snare — Their pretended predictions
a...