Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Hosea 10:6
Translate, Even that (i.e., the calf) shall be carried (in triumphant state) to Assyria, an offering to King Jareb. (See Hosea 5:13, Excursus.)
Translate, Even that (i.e., the calf) shall be carried (in triumphant state) to Assyria, an offering to King Jareb. (See Hosea 5:13, Excursus.)
Verse Hosea 10:6. _A PRESENT TO KING JAREB_] See on Hosea 5:13. If this be a proper name, the person intended is not known in history: but it is most likely that _Pul_, king of Assyria, is intended, t...
IT SHALL BE ALSO CARRIED - (that is, “Itself also shall be carried”). Not Israel only shall be carried into captivity, but its god also. The victory over a nation was accounted of old a victory over i...
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...
GOD'S ANNIHILATING JUDGMENT ON THE MIXED CULTUS. With the land's abounding prosperity Israel has multiplied altars in the service of the mixed cultus; these Yahweh will destroy (Hosea 10:1 f.) Their p...
KING JAREB. See note on Hosea 5:13. COUNSEL: i.e. the policy of Jeroboam....
_It shall be also_ Rather, THIS ALSO (viz. the steer) SHALL BE. _for a present to king Jareb_ Just as the kings of Judah repeatedly gave up the gold and silver in the temple to foreign foes. -King Ja...
IDOLATRY BROUGHT DESTRUCTION TO ISRAEL -- HOSEA 10:5-8 : The entire population of Samaria would come to tremble with regret concerning the practice of idolatry. The calves at Bethel and Dan led the pe...
SHALL FEAR BECAUSE, &C.— _Have feared, because of the famous calf,_ &c. _For the people mourn over it: its priests are distressed, because its glory is departed from it._ Houbigant; who, for _king Jar...
REPROVINGISRAEL FELL INTO ANARCHY TEXT: Hosea 10:1-11 1 Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to...
It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel. IT SHALL BE ALSO CARRIED UNTO ASSYRIA. The Hebrew for...
10:6 Jareb. (n-13) See ch. 5.13....
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...
KING JAREB] see on Hosea 5:13. There is a fine touch of irony in the suggestion that a god is sent off as a present to a king. 7. Samaria is doomed, and her king disappears, like a foam-bubble bursti...
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...
גַּם ־אֹותֹו֙ לְ אַשּׁ֣וּר יוּבָ֔ל מִנְחָ֖ה ל
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...
“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...
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...
_Itself also is carried, &c. One of the golden calves was given by king Manahem to Phul, king of the Assyrians, to engage him to stand by him. (Challoner) --- Avenging. Chap. v. 13. --- Will, or expec...
It is remarkable what connection there is in the apprehension of sinners in their fears, how remote soever they are from their sinful transactions. A plain proof of the workings of conscience! Revelat...
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...
Here the Prophet expresses more clearly the cause of mourning to the priests and to the whole people,_The calf, _he says, _“shall be carried into Assyria, _and carried as _a present to king Jareb _”....
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...
IT SHALL ALSO BE CARRIED UNTO ASSYRIA [FOR] A PRESENT TO KING JAREB,.... Or, "he himself" z; not the people of Samaria, or of Bethaven, or of the calf, but the calf itself; which, being all of gold, w...
It shall be also carried unto Assyria [for] a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel. Ver. 6. _It shall be also carried unto Assyria, &c._]...
_It_ The golden calf; _shall be carried into Assyria_ It was the custom of the eastern people, and also of the Romans, to carry away the gods of the conquered countries. _For a present to King Jareb_...
THE SEATS OF WORSHIP DESTROYED...
It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to King Jareb, to the warlike monarch; EPHRAIM SHALL RECEIVE SHAME, be completely overcome with shame, AND ISRAEL SHALL BE ASHAMED OF HIS OWN COUNSE...
1-8 A vine is only valuable for its fruit; but Israel now brought no fruit to perfection. Their hearts were divided. God is the Sovereign of the heart; he will have all, or none. Were the stream of t...
IT; the golden calf made by Jeroboam the First, 1 KINGS 12:28. SHALL BE CARRIED; though it hath feet, it cannot go, it must be borne; as Isaiah derides the idols of Babylon, ISAIAH 46:2,7 JER 10:5; an...
Hosea 10:6 carried H2986 (H8714) Assyria H804 present H4503 King H4428 Jareb H3377 Ephraim H669 receive H3947 ...
ISRAEL'S ‘FRUITFULNESS' IS REVEALED BY THEIR SETTING UP A MULTIPLICITY OF ALTARS AND RELIGIOUS PILLARS, DECLARING THAT THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE TO NO ONE, AND DO NOT FEAR GOD, BUT THEY WILL SHORTLY DISCOV...
‘Ephraim will receive shame, And Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel (or ‘disobedience'). As for Samaria, her king is cut off, As a twig (wood chip) on the water.' But the idol will not be th...
‘It also will be carried to Assyria, For a present to the great king. The ignominy of the idol's situation is stressed. It will be carried to Assyria, no doubt on the back of a donkey (compare the B...
Hosea 10:1. _Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself:_ Not to his God. It matters not how much fruit we bear if it is for self, we are really fruitless. A thing which is good in...
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...
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 inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven._ These verses dilate, with keen irony, on the fate of the first half of Israel’s sin, the calf. It was thought a god, but its...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 10:5. PEOPLE] of the calf and idolatrous _priests_ shall mourn for the golden calf; their glory can neither help itself nor them. HOSEA 10:6. IT] Emphat. It itself, as well as...
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...
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...
2 Kings 17:3; Daniel 11:8; Ezekiel 36:31; Hosea 11:6; Hosea 4:19;...
It — The golden calf....