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Verse Hosea 7:9. _GRAY HAIRS ARE HERE AND THERE UPON HIM, YET HE
KNOWETH_ _NOT._] The kingdom is grown old in iniquity; the time of
their captivity is at hand, and they are apprehensive of no danger....
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STRANGERS HAVE DEVOURED HIS STRENGTH, AND HE KNOWETH IT NOT - Like
Samson, when, for sensual pleasure, he had betrayed the source of his
strength and God had departed from him, lsrael knew not how or...
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CHAPTER 7
The Moral Depravity of Israel
_ 1. Their moral depravity (Hosea 7:1) _
2. Mingling with heathen nations (Hosea 7:8)
Hosea 7:1. All the gracious efforts of the Lord to heal Israel
resulted...
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HOSEA 7:8 TO HOSEA 8:3. POLITICAL DECAY THE OUTWARD SIGN OF ISRAEL'S
MORAL DECAY. The attempts to cure national ills and secure safety by
foreign aid, instead of by turning to Yahweh, are foredoomed t...
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STRANGERS. Outsiders. Compare Hosea 8:7.
HERE AND THERE. sprinkled....
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_Strangers have devoured his strength_ By heavy tribute and desolating
invasions. The -strangers" would be Hazael and Benhadad (2 Kings 8:12;
2 Kings 10:32-33; 2 Kings 13:3;...
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_ISRAEL DID NOT CALL ON GOD -- HOSEA 7:7-10:_ The sins and iniquities
of the people were so widespread that they engulfed judges and other
leading men in society. Sin was popular and Israel did not ca...
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DISCOURSE: 1159
CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS OF SPIRITUAL DECAY
Hosea 7:8. _Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people: Ephraim
is a cake not turned. Strangers have devoured his strength, and he
knoweth...
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ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDELOVE OF SIN
TEXT: Hosea 7:8-16
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Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not
turned.
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Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea...
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Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea,
gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
STRANGERS HAVE DEVOURED HIS STRENGTH - "strangers" - foreigners: the
Sy...
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CORRUPTION OF THE COURT
In this chapter the tone again becomes despondent. How can Israel be
saved when her iniquity is so deep, so glaring, so obstinate? Samaria
is especially instanced as the centr...
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STRANGERS.. STRENGTH] the natural consequence of seeking help from a
foreign alliance, which meant the exaction of what was practically
tribute, and consequently heavy taxation (2 Kings 15:20). Israel...
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THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING
HOSEA
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 7
V1 I want to heal my people Israel!
Then people will know that *Ephraim has *sinned....
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HAVE DEVOURED. — The past tense may refer to the invasions of
Tiglath-pileser. Both Egypt and Assyria had come to regard Israel as
the earthen pipkin between iron pots. These strangers have devoured
h...
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אָכְל֤וּ זָרִים֙ כֹּחֹ֔ו וְ ה֖וּא
לֹ֣א יָדָ֑ע
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A PEOPLE IN DECAY: 2. POLITICALLY
Hosea 7:8
MORAL decay means political decay. Sins like these are the gangrene of
nations. It is part of Hosea's greatness to have traced this, a proof
of that versat...
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1. THE CONFUSION OF THE NATION
Hosea 7:8; Hosea 8:1
Hosea begins by summing up the public aspect of Israel in two
epigrams, short but of marvelous adequacy:-Hosea 7:8
"Ephraim-among the nations he...
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A PEOPLE IN DECAY: 1 MORALLY
Hosea 4:1 - Hosea 7:7
PURSUING the plan laid down in the last chapter, we now take the
section of Hosea's discourse which lies between chapter 4 and Hosea
7:7. Chapter 4...
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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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INIQUITY UNCOVERED
Hosea 7:1-16
The last clause of the previous chapter belongs to this. God desired
to turn aside the captivity of His people and to heal Israel, but His
pleading was unavailing beca...
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The prophet then declared more particularly the true state of affairs.
The divine desire to heal was frustrated by the pollution and the
people's persistent ignoring of God. Hosea graphically describe...
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_Strangers: kings of Assyria, Damascus, &c. --- Hairs. He is grown old
in misery, and yet is insensible of it, and sees not that he will
shortly cease to be a people, Isaias vii. 8._...
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I include all these verses under one view; for they are all to the
same amount. They represent the same melancholy truth, only by
different figures. The heart of man ready like an oven, always heated;...
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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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_UNCONSCIOUS DEGENERATION_
(_For the New Year_)
‘Gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.’
Hosea 7:9
THE FIRST SUNDAY OF ANOTHER YEAR.—A new year with new
possibilities. Let us...
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IX. HOSEA 7:8-9 (NASB) EPHRAIM MIXES HIMSELF WITH THE NATIONS; EPHRAIM
HAS BECOME A CAKE NOT TURNED.
9 STRANGERS DEVOUR HIS STRENGTH, YET HE DOES NOT KNOW [IT]; GRAY HAIRS
ALSO ARE SPRINKLED ON HIM,...
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The Prophet follows the same subject, that is, that Israel had not
repented, though the Lord had in various ways invited them to
repentance; yea, and constrained them by his scourges. It is indeed a
p...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7.
Chapter 6 calls forth a touching address from the prophet, in which he
entreats the people to return to Jehovah. Faith has always this
resource, beca...
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STRANGERS HAVE DEVOURED HIS STRENGTH,.... Or his substance, as the
Targum; his wealth and riches, fortresses and strong holds: these
strangers were either the Syrians, who, in the times of Jehoahaz,
d...
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Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not: yea,
gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
Ver. 9. _Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it
not_]...
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_Ephraim, he hath mixed among the people_ By his alliances with the
heathen, and by imitation of their manners, he is himself become one
of them. He has thrown off all the distinctions, and forfeited...
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Strangers have devoured his strength, partly on account of the wars
waged against Israel, partly as a consequence of the heathen ways
which had been adopted in the northern kingdom, AND HE KNOWETH IT...
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THE MORAL CORRUPTION OF ISRAEL...
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HERE AND THERE:
_ Heb._ sprinkled...
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8-16 Israel was as a cake not turned, half burnt and half dough, none
of it fit for use; a mixture of idolatry and of the worship of
Jehovah. There were tokens of approaching ruin, as grey hairs are...
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STRANGERS; foreigners, whose aid Ephraim sought, as 2 KINGS 15:19,20,
when Menahem bought the friendship of Pul king of Assyria for one
thousand talents of silver, and impoverished the land thereby. H...
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Hosea 7:9 Aliens H2114 (H8801) devoured H398 (H8804) strength H3581
know H3045 (H8804) hairs H7872 there...
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‘Strangers have devoured his strength,
And he does not know it.
Ephraim's vulnerable situation is underlined by the fact that it has
lost its wealth to the nations, either by tribute, bribes or treat...
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IN TURNING TO FOREIGN NATIONS FOR THEIR SUPPORT INSTEAD OF TURNING TO
YHWH, EPHRAIM DO NOT REALISE WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES WILL BE (HOSEA
7:8).
Hosea now parodies the people's attempts to find help from...
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Hosea 7:9
Gray hairs are a sign of decay. They are here the marks of age, the
premonitory symptoms of dissolution; and so the truth the text
announces is that men, many men, live in ignorance, and ac...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's response to Israel's, cry, continued. Israel's sad
state.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: If sinful souls are not healed and helped, but perish in
their sin and misery, they cannot...
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Hosea 7:1. _When I would have healed Israel,_ by Jehu's zeal for the
Lord, then the idolatrous priests, like troops of robbers, gathered
round him with lies in their mouth, and persuaded him to retain...
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_Grey hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not._
NEGLECTED WARNINGS
I. Grey hairs are a sign of decay. God has for wise purposes given
distinctive features to the different periods of hu...
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HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 7:4 Hosea compares Israel to an oven (vv. Hosea
7:4), a half-baked cake (vv. Hosea 7:8), a silly dove (vv....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
HOSEA 7:8. MIXED] by leagues and adoption of idolatrous customs. The
Heb. indicates a mixing which disorders and involves confusion. A
CAKE] burned at the bottom and sad at the top,—...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter may be divided into three sections. In the first section,
including Hosea 7:1, the prophet reproves with much but deserved
severity the depraved morals of king and princes. In...
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The Lord continues His response to them.
When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was
discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood;
and the thief comes in...
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2 Kings 13:22; 2 Kings 13:3; 2 Kings 15:19; Hosea 8:7; Isaiah 42:22
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Knoweth it not — He is not aware of the loss he hath sustained. Gray
hairs — Of old age and declining strength are upon their kingdom....