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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hosea 10:15

King... Cut off. — The close of the kingdom (721 B.C.), already more than once referred to (comp. Hosea 10:7), is here prophesied. Translate, So shall He do to you at Bethel.

In the morning. — Should be, in the early morning Hoshea was utterly cut off, leaving neither root nor branch.

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See also Hosea 10:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 10:15. _SO SHALL BETH-EL DO UNTO YOU_] This shall be the consequence of your _idolatry_. _IN A MORNING SHALL THE KING OF ISRAEL UTTERLY BE CUT OFF._] Suddenly, unexpectedly. _Hoshea_, th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SO SHALL BETHEL DO UNTO YOU - God was the judge, who condemned them so to suffer from the enemy. The Assyrian was the instrument of the wrath of God. But, in order to point out the moral government of...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 9:10-11:11 RETROSPECT, ISRAEL'S FAILURE AND RUIN _ 1. Israel once beloved, now fugitive wanderers (Hosea 9:10) _ 2. Their guilt and punishment (Hosea 10:1) 3. Exhortation and rebuke (Hosea...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL MUST REAP THE RUIN HE HAS SOWN. From the days of Gibeah Israel has sinned, and never progressed since (Hosea 10:9, but see notes); Yahweh comes to punish them, and gather the peoples against th...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    YOUR GREAT WICKEDNESS. Hebrew "evil of your evil". Note the Figure of speech _P_ olypto _t_ on (App-6), Hebrew. _ra'a'._ IN. MORNING. Some codices, with two early printed editions (one Rabbinic, marg...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    In a few words the prophet describes the crash of Israel's ruin (comp. Hosea 13:16). _Therefore_ The prophet simply connects the judgment by an -and"; but the next verse clearly shows that sequence i...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A fresh demonstration of Israel's guiltiness. The prevalent depravity is comparable only to that of the men of Gibeah (see on Hosea 9:9). -The times are out of joint"; all Israel's doings are against...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _So shall Beth-el_, &c. Such is the awful judgment of which the idolatry of Bethel is the cause. _your great wickedness_ Lit., -your wickedness of wickedness", with which some compare the phrases -so...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    PLOWING WICKEDNESS, REAPING INIQUITY -- HOSEA 10:13-15 : If the planted is wickedness, then the thing that is harvested is iniquity. They ate the fruit of their lies. Israel was deceived by trusting i...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SO SHALL BETH-EL DO UNTO YOU— "This is the fruit of your worshipping the golden calves at Beth-el. As it has happened to the city above mentioned, so shall it happen to you, because of your iniquities...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off. SO SHALL BETH-EL DO UNTO YOU - i:e., your idolatrous calf at Bethel shall be...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DENUNCIATIONS AND ENTREATIES This prophecy appears to have been uttered at a later date than the last. There is no longer any mention of Egypt, but the calamity from Assyria seems imminent. Again Hos...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SO SHALL BETH-EL DO] RM 'so shall it be done unto you at Beth-el.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 10 THE RICHES OF ISRAEL LEAD TO HER *WORSHIP OF *IDOLS V1 Israel is like a *vine that grows plenty of fruit. But Israel became...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כָּ֗כָה עָשָׂ֤ה לָכֶם֙ בֵּֽית־אֵ֔ל מִ פְּנֵ֖י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    5. ONCE MORE: PUPPET-KINGS AND PUPPET-GODS Hosea 10:1 For another section, the tenth chapter, the prophet returns to the twin targets of his scorn: the idols and the puppet-kings. But few notes are...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “BREAK UP YOUR FALLOW GROUND” Hosea 10:1-15 Israel brought forth fruit, but not such as God could delight in. It was corrupt and evil. How great a disappointment to the Great Cultivator! The land was...

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

    The section dealing with pollution and its punishment closes with the prophet's recapitulation and appeal. The whole case is first stated under the figure of the vine. Israel was a luxuriant vine, and...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Bethel. This place, defiled by an idol, shall be the scene of your misery. Septuagint, "So I will treat you, O house of Israel," &c., (Haydock) which is not in Hebrew (St. Jerome) but seems as good....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    In the opening of this paragraph we find blessed allusions to the person of Christ: for He, and He alone, is the righteousness to which God's people can sow; and as they are God's husbandry, so Jesus...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS READER! it is very blessed, in reading these scriptures of the Old Testament, to behold how the figures made use of are explained under the New. Our emptiness as a vine, and the plowing of...

  • 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

    We explained yesterday Hosea 10:14, in which the Prophet denounced the vengeance of God on his people, such as they had experienced either when the country was laid waste by the army of Shalmanezar, o...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SO SHALL BETHEL DO UNTO YOU, BECAUSE OF YOUR GREAT WICKEDNESS,.... Or, "because of the evil of your evil" s; their extreme wickedness, and exceeding sinfulness; the evil of evils they were guilty of w...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off. Ver. 15. _So shall Bethel do unto you_] _i.e._ The idolatry that you have commi...

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

    _Ye have ploughed wickedness_ Instead of working righteousness, (Hosea 10:12,) you have taken a great deal of pains in the service of sin, to compass your wicked designs. _Ye have reaped iniquity_ Ye...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness, Bethel, as the main center of idolatry, being the cause of the punishment which descended upon them; IN A MORNING, while the dawn rises, w...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE KINGDOM DEVASTATED...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    YOUR GREAT WICKEDNESS: _ Heb._ the evil of your evil...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-15 Because God does not desire the death and ruin of sinners, therefore in mercy he desires their chastisement. The children of iniquity still remained in Israel. The enemies would be gathered agai...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SO; mercilessly and universally min. BETH-EL; one place put for every one, and the place put for the idolatry committed there. DO; procure, bring your idolatry and sins, do all this evil against you....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 10:15 Thus H3602 done H6213 (H8804) Bethel H1008 Because H6440 great H7451 wickedness H7451 dawn H7837 king...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL ARE WARNED THAT THEY FACE ANOTHER GIBEAH BECAUSE ALTHOUGH HE HAD CHOSEN THEM AS HIS SERVANT (LIKE A TRAINED HEIFER) THEY HAVE RESPONDED WITH DISOBEDIENCE AND WICKEDNESS. A FINAL WAR OF DESTRUCT...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘So shall Beth-el do to you because of your great wickedness, At dawn will the king of Israel be utterly cut off.' The same treatment will be meted out to them by Bethel. In other words, because of t...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Further reproof for Israel's impiety. CHARACTERS: God, Jareb, King of Israel. CONCLUSION: If the grace of God prevail not to destroy the love of sin in us, i...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Hosea 10:1. _Israel is an empty vine._ So is the Hebrew, but the LXX read, “a well-branched vine;” that is, full of leaves, but destitute of fruit. Their fruits are the fruits of idolatry. The figures...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity._ DILIGENCE IN SERVING SIN Whereas the Lord had, by His prophets, frequently inculcated that exhortation, to taker pains on their own hearts, to br...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 10:14. TUMULT] War (Amos 2:2). PEOPLE] Lit. peoples, “not, as God willed them to be, one people, for they had no principle of oneness or stability, who had no legitimate success...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION The concluding thought of the last chapter is the commencing one of this; while the sad subject of Israel's guilt being resumed continues in the first section (Hosea 10:1) of the chapter, a...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn to Hosea, chapter 10. It is God's purpose for our lives that we bring forth fruit. In Isaiah chapter 6 God likens the nation of Israel to a vineyard that was planted with good plants, th...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 7:9; Hosea 10:3; Hosea 10:5; Hosea 10:7; Isaiah 16:14;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Beth — el — The idolatry committed there. Do — Procure all this evil against you. In a morning — Possibly the Assyrians might assault the city towards morning and master it....

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