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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hosea 14:8

It would be better to adopt the slightly different reading indicated by the rendering of the LXX., and translate, As for Ephraim, what has he to do with, &c. Here again, as in Hosea 13:15, the Hebrew for “thy fruit” contains a play on the name Ephraim. I (says Jehovah) am to thee an evergreen tree of life and protection, and from me is thy fruit found.

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See also Hosea 14:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 14:8. _WHAT HAVE I TO DO ANY MORE WITH IDOLS?_] The conversion of Ephraim is now as complete as it was sincere. God hears and observes this. _I_ AM _LIKE A GREEN FIR TREE._] Perhaps thes...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    EPHRAIM SHALL SAY, WHAT HAVE I TO DO ANYMORE WITH IDOLS? - So Isaiah fortells, “The idols He shall utterly abolish” Isaiah 2:18. Aforetime Ephraim said obstinately, in the midst of God’s chastisements...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 14 The Return and the Glorious Redemption _ 1. The exhortation to return (Hosea 14:1) _ 2. The glorious redemption (Hosea 14:4) Hosea 14:1. This chapter is a wonderful finale to the message...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    HOSEA 14:1 (Heb. Hosea 14:2). ISRAEL'S REPENTANCE AND YAHWEH'S FORGIVENESS. The section begins with a passionate appeal to Israel to repent and confess his sin (Hosea 14:1 f.). A promise of amendment...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SHALL SAY. In obedience to the command in Hosea 14:1. I HAVE HEARD. I have heard and obeyed. AND OBSERVED. and regarded. Contrast Hosea 13:7. I AM LIKE: or,. like. green cypress [will overshadow him...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jehovah, in answer, describes the blessings which He will give. The imagery reminds us of the Song of Songs; notice especially the references to the lily and to Lebanon....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Ephraim_(_shall say_), _What have I to do any more with idols_ So the Targum and the Syriac. The objection is that the ellipsis is unique, and hence Archbishop Seeker proposed to follow the Septuagin...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1178 GOD’S NOTICE OF PENITENTS Hosea 14:8. _Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard_ him, _and observed him: I am like a green fir-tree: from me_ is _thy fru...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I HAVE HEARD HIM, &C.— _I will hear him; I will exalt him on high, like a green fir-tree: thy fruits shall spring forth from me._ Houbigant....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PEACE REMAINSLOVED TEXT: Hosea 14:7-8 7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the grain, and blossom as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. 8...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found. EPHRAIM SHALL SAY, WHAT HAVE I TO DO ANYMORE W...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL WILL SURELY REPENT AND BE FORGIVEN Hosea makes a touching final appeal for repentance. He assures Israel of God's mercy, and closes with a description of the blessings that will follow the ren...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 14 GOD CALLS TO ISRAEL TO RETURN TO HIM V1 Return to the *Lord your God, people of Israel. Your *sin has made you fall....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Hosea 14:9]_ אֶפְרַ֕יִם מַה ־לִּ֥י עֹ֖וד לָֽ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    2. THE LAST JUDGMENT Hosea 13:1 - Hosea 14:1 The crisis draws on. On the one hand Israel's sin, accumulating, bulks ripe for judgment. On the other the times grow more fatal, or the prophet more tha...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    "I WILL BE AS THE DEW" Hosea 14:2 LIKE the Book of Amos, the Book of Hosea, after proclaiming the people's inevitable doom, turns to a blessed prospect of their restoration to favor with God. It will...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “I WILL HEAL THEIR BACKSLIDING” Hosea 13:15-16; Hosea 14:1-9 The prophet here ransacks the world of nature for phrases sufficiently expressive of his transports of joy. The whole world seems laid und...

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

    The cycle closes with the final call of the prophet, and the promise of Jehovah. The call was to the people to return, because by iniquity they had fallen. The method suggested was to bring the words...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I (g) have heard [him], and observed him: I [am] like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found. (g) God shows how prompt he is to hear...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _His. This may refer to the tree, or to God. The captives shall return, and be happy. But in a more sublime sense it refers to the nations which shall embrace the gospel. --- Libanus, or fragrant. Suc...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here we have the third great branch of doctrine in this most delightful Chapter; namely, the sweet and sure effects of grace, when that grace is inwrought by the Holy Ghost in the heart. And such will...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _EPHRAIM FORSAKING IDOLS_ ‘Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have beard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From Me is thy fruit found.’ Hosea 14:8 These ar...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    XIII. CONCLUSION A. And we will close with the Lord's desire for Israel and within these verse is also His desire for all of his children 1. Hosea 14:1-9 (NASB) Return, O Israel, to the Lord your Go...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet again introduces the Israelites speaking as before, that they would deplore their blindness and folly, and renounce in future their superstitions. The confession then which we have before...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 14. It is this last work that we find in chapter 14 of the prophet. Israel, returning to Jehovah, acknowledges his iniquity, and addresses himself to the grace of his God. Thus only could he r...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    EPHRAIM [SHALL SAY], WHAT HAVE I TO DO ANY MORE WITH IDOLS?.... This is to be understood, not of apostate Ephraim, as in the times of the prophet, who was so wedded and glued to the idols, that there...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard [him], and observed him: I [am] like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found. Ver. 8. _Ephraim shall say, What have I to...

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

    _Ephraim shall say_, &c. The words, _shall say_, are not in the Hebrew. The clause is therefore translated thus by Bishop Horsley, _Ephraim! What have I to do any more with idols_, “an exultation,” sa...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Ephraim shall say, in addressing the Lord, WHAT HAVE I TO DO ANY MORE WITH IDOLS? Or the sentence may be considered as an appeal to Ephraim to renounce all idolatry. I HAVE HEARD HIM AND OBSERVED HIM,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A FINAL EXHORTATION TO RETURN, WITH A PROMISE OF REDEMPTION. After having shown the apostate Israelites in various ways in what their guilt consisted, the Lord here once more appeals to them to retur...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    4-8 Israel seeks God's face, and they shall not seek it in vain. His anger is turned from them. Whom God loves, he loves freely; not because they deserve it, but of his own good pleasure. God will be...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    EPHRAIM; not the whole body of Ephraim, but converted Ephraim, those who, HOSEA 14:1,2, were sensible of sin, confessed it, and sued for pardon. WHAT HAVE I TO DO ANY MORE WITH IDOLS? i.e. I have no m...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 14:8 Ephraim H669 idols H6091 heard H6030 (H8804) observed H7789 (H8799) green H7488 tree H1265 fruit...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL ARE CALLED ON TO RETURN TO YHWH WITH THE ASSURANCE THAT WHEN THEY DO SO YHWH WILL RESTORE THEM AND LOVE THEM FREELY, AND THEY THEN LEARN OF ALL THE GOOD THINGS THAT HE HAS IN STORE FOR THEM AS...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Ephraim (will say), “What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will regard him. I am like a green fir-tree, from me is your fruit found.” The bare word ‘Ephraim' (it is not ‘O Ephra...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Hosea 14:1. _O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity._ When we fall by sin, we must regain our comfort by going back to the place where we lost it: «Return unto...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Hosea 14:1. _O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity._ Let anyone here, who has turned aside from the Lord, hear these tender pleading words, and then yield to...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Entreaty and promise to Israel. Restoration foretold. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Though backslidings from God are dangerous diseases of the soul, yet they are not incurable, for God grac...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Hosea 14:2. _So will we render the calves of our lips._ The fruit of our lips, in worship, in praise, and in all holy obedience. The sacrifices of thanksgiving are pleasing to God. Hosea 14:3. _In the...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Ephraim shall say, what have I to do any more with idols._ JOINED TO IDOLS Compare this account of Ephraim with that given in Hosea 4:17. How is this surprising Change to he accounted for? I. A sin...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 14:1 Hosea finishes his book with a series of moving appeals to the wayward northern kingdom to return to the Lord and find healing and covenant renewal. ⇐

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] HOSEA 14:8.] God speaks now. IDOLS] Eph., I have no longer to plead with thee, on account of idols. I have nothing more to do with them, and thou hast not. I have answered and OBSERVE...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION HOSEA 14:1 The foregoing part of this book abounds with denunciations of punishment; this closing chapter superabounds with promises of pardon. Wave after wave of threatened wrath had roll...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 14 ends God's plea with the people. His arms are always open; He's always ready to forgive. O Israel, [God said,] return unto the LORD thy God (Hsa Hosea 14:1); You've gone away, you've turn...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 1:14; 1 Peter 4:3; 1 Peter 4:4; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; Acts

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I have heard him — A gracious promise from God of hearing prayers. A green fir — tree — As a weary traveller finds rest and safety under a thick tree, so there is safety and refreshment under the prot...

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