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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Hosea
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 96,587 words · 161 reading sections
Hosea 10:11
Hosea 10:11 Ver. 11. And Ephraim [is as] an heifer [that is] taught, [and] loveth to tread out [the corn],.... Like a heifer taught to bear the yoke, and to plough; but learned it not, as the Targum; does not like it; chooses to tread out the corn where it can feed upon it, its mouth not being then muzzled, according …
792 wordsSECTION 122Hosea 10:12
Hosea 10:12 Ver. 12. Saw to yourselves in righteousness,.... Not the seed of grace, which bad men have not, and cannot saw it; and which good men need not, it being sown in them already, and remaining; rather the seed of the word, which should be laid up in their hearts, dwell richly in them, and be kept and retained …
2,138 wordsSECTION 123Hosea 11:1
Hosea 11:1 INTRODUCTION TO HOSEA 11 This chapter gives an account of the free and ancient love of God to Israel, and of the benefits and blessings of goodness he bestowed upon them; and of their ingratitude in not owning them, nor hearkening to his prophets, but sacrificing and burning incense to idols, Ho 11:1; wher…
740 wordsSECTION 124Hosea 11:2
Hosea 11:2 Ver. 2. [As] they called them, so they went from them,.... That is, the prophets of the Lord, the true prophets, called Israel to the worship and service of God; but they turned a deaf ear to them, and their backs upon them; and the more they called to them, the further they went from them, and from the way…
389 wordsSECTION 125Hosea 11:3
Hosea 11:3 Ver. 3. I taught Ephraim also to go,.... All the tribes of Israel and Ephraim, or the ten tribes with the rest; these the Lord instructed in the way of his commandments, and taught them to walk therein; he his angel before them, to conduct them through the wilderness; yea, he himself went before them in the…
611 wordsSECTION 126Hosea 11:4
Hosea 11:4 Ver. 4. I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love,.... As Ephraim is compared to a heifer in the preceding chapter, here he is said to be drawn; but not with such cords and bands as cattle are, but with such as men are; in a rational and gentle way, in a kind, loving, tender, humane, friendly, and…
568 wordsSECTION 127Hosea 11:5
Hosea 11:5 Ver. 5. He shall not return into the land of Egypt,.... Ephraim or Israel, the ten tribes: and the Septuagint and Arabic versions express them by name, though they give a wrong sense of the words, rendering them, "and Ephraim dwelt in Egypt"; he did so indeed with the other tribes formerly; but here it is s…
321 wordsSECTION 128Hosea 11:6
Hosea 11:6 Ver. 6. And the sword shall abide on the cities,.... Or "shall fall" {y}, and continue; meaning the sword of the Assyrians, whereby Ephraim should be brought into subjection to them, and the king of Assyria become king over them; his sword should be drawn, and rest upon them, not only on their chief city Sa…
289 wordsSECTION 129Hosea 11:7
Hosea 11:7 Ver. 7. And my people are bent to backsliding from me,.... There is a propensity in thorn to it, through prevailing corruption in them; they are inclined unto it, the bias of their minds is that way; they are bent upon it, and pertinaciously abide in it; nor will they be reclaimed from it, by all the means …
528 wordsSECTION 130Hosea 11:8
Hosea 11:8 Ver. 8. How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? [how] shall I deliver thee, Israel?.... That is, as usually interpreted, into the hand of the enemy, or unto wrath, ruin, and destruction; for, notwithstanding all the sins of this people before observed, and the punishment threatened to be inflicted on them, the L…
1,034 wordsSECTION 131Hosea 11:9
Hosea 11:9 Ver. 9. I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger,.... That is, his wrath and fury to the uttermost; his people are deserving of his wrath as others, being by nature children of wrath as the rest; which they are sensible of under spiritual conviction, and therefore flee from it, where they may be safe…
589 wordsSECTION 132Hosea 11:10
Hosea 11:10 Ver. 10. They shall walk after the Lord,.... That is, after the Messiah, who is Jehovah our righteousness; that Jehovah the Jews pierced, and now shall mourn at the sight of, being converted to him; for these are the chosen of God among that people, who in the latter day shall partake of the grace and favo…
714 wordsSECTION 133Hosea 11:11
Hosea 11:11 Ver. 11. They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt,.... They shall come from thence with fear and trembling; which may allude to the trembling of birds at the roaring of a lion, or to the trembling motion of their wings in flying; and denotes the swiftness of the motion of the Israelites and Jews to Christ…
1,866 wordsSECTION 134Hosea 12:1
Hosea 12:1 INTRODUCTION TO HOSEA 12 This chapter contains complaints and charges both against Israel and Judah, and threatens them with punishment in case they repent not, which they are exhorted to: and first Ephraim is charged with idolatry, vain confidence in, and alliances with, foreign nations, Ho 12:1; and then…
769 wordsSECTION 135Hosea 12:2
Hosea 12:2 Ver. 2. The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah,.... The two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, as well as the ten tribes; for though they had ruled with God, and had been faithful with the saints in the first times of the apostasy of Israel; yet afterwards they sadly degenerated, and fell into idolatry like…
243 wordsSECTION 136Hosea 12:3
Hosea 12:3 Ver. 3. He took his brother by the heel in the womb,.... That is, Jacob took his brother Esau by the heel, as he came forth from his mother's womb; the history of it is in Ge 25:25. It is here observed, upon mentioning the name of Jacob in Ho 12:2, meaning the posterity, of the patriarch; but here he himsel…
614 wordsSECTION 137Hosea 12:4
Hosea 12:4 Ver. 4. Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed,.... This is repeated in different words, not only for the confirmation of it, it being a very extraordinary thing, and difficult of belief; but to direct to the history here referred to, where the person Jacob prevailed over is called a man, and here …
933 wordsSECTION 138Hosea 12:5
Hosea 12:5 Ver. 5. Even the Lord God of hosts,.... The God Jacob had power over, the Angel he prevailed with, to whom he made supplication with weeping, and who spake with him and his in Bethel, is he whose name is Jehovah; who is the true and living God, the Lord of hosts and armies both in heaven and in earth; of al…
242 wordsSECTION 139Hosea 12:6
Hosea 12:6 Ver. 6. Therefore turn thou to thy God,.... Judah, with whom the Lord had a controversy, is here addressed and exhorted to return to the Lord, from whom they had backslidden; and this is urged, from the consideration of their being the descendants of so great a man as Jacob; whose example they should follow…
549 wordsSECTION 140Hosea 12:7
Hosea 12:7 Ver. 7. [He is] a merchant,.... Here is a change of person from "thou" to "he", from Judah to Ephraim, who is said to be a "merchant"; and if that was all, there is nothing worthy of dispraise in it; but he was a cheating merchant, a fraudulent dealer, as appears by what follows: or he is Canaan, or a Canaa…
365 wordsSECTION 141Hosea 12:8
Hosea 12:8 Ver. 8. And Ephraim said, yet I am become rich,.... Notwithstanding they took such unjust methods, as to use deceitful balances, they prospered in the world, got abundance of riches; and therefore concluded from thence that their manner of dealing was not criminal, at least not so bad as the prophets repres…
566 wordsSECTION 142Hosea 12:9
Hosea 12:9 Ver. 9. And I [that am] the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt,.... Ephraim being so very corrupt in things, both religious and civil, and so very impenitent and impudent, is let alone to suffer the just punishment of his sins; but Judah being called to repentance, and brought unto it, gracious promises ar…
570 wordsSECTION 143Hosea 12:10
Hosea 12:10 Ver. 10. I have also spoken to the prophets,.... Or, "I will speak" {b}; for this respects not the Lord's speaking by the prophets of the Old Testament who spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost; though all they said were for the use of, and profitable unto, Christian churches; but his speaking by the …
2,200 wordsSECTION 144Hosea 13:1
Hosea 13:1 INTRODUCTION TO HOSEA 13 This chapter begins with observing the different state and condition of Ephraim before and after his idolatry, Ho 13:1; his increase in it, Ho 13:2; and therefore his prosperity was very short lived, which is signified by various metaphors, Ho 13:3; and his sins are aggravated by t…
724 wordsSECTION 145Hosea 13:2
Hosea 13:2 Ver. 2. And now they sin more and more,.... Since the times of Jeroboam, and also of Ahab, adding other deities to the calves, and to Baal, as follows; increasing the number of their idols, and their idolatrous sacrifices, rites, and ceremonies: this they did in the times the prophet, who prophesied after t…
846 wordsSECTION 146Hosea 13:3
Hosea 13:3 Ver. 3. Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud,.... Which, however promising it is, soon disappears when the sun is risen; signifying that the idolatrous Israelites, king, priests, and people, should be no more; their kingdom would cease, all their riches and wealth would depart from them, and they an…
283 wordsSECTION 147Hosea 13:4
Hosea 13:4 Ver. 4. Yet I [am] the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt,.... Which brought thee out from thence, as the Targum; and ever since, from that time to this, had shown a regard unto them, as the Lord their God, both in the wilderness, as later mentioned, and in the land of Canaan, where they had been continued…
229 wordsSECTION 148Hosea 13:5
Hosea 13:5 Ver. 5. I did know thee in the wilderness,.... Where there were no food nor drink, where were scorpions, serpents, and beasts of prey; there the Lord knew them, owned them, and showed a fatherly affection for them, and care of them; and fed them with manna and quails, and guided and directed them in the way…
249 wordsSECTION 149Hosea 13:6
Hosea 13:6 Ver. 6. According to their pasture, so were they filled,.... When they came into the land of Canaan, which was a land flowing with milk and honey, they were like a flock of sheep brought from short commons to a good pasture; and there they tilled themselves to the fail, and indulged to luxury and excess, pa…
231 wordsSECTION 150Hosea 13:7
Hosea 13:7 Ver. 7. Therefore I will be unto them as a lion, Because of their idolatry, ingratitude, luxury, and especially their forgetfulness of God, which is last mentioned, and with which the words are connected. By this and the following metaphors are set forth the severity of God's judgments upon them for their s…
433 wordsSECTION 151Hosea 13:8
Hosea 13:8 Ver. 8. I will meet them as a bear [that is] bereaved of her whelps,.... Which is a fierce cruel creature at any time, but especially when this is its case, being very fond of its whelps; and having taken a great deal of pains to lick them into form, as Kimchi and Ben Melech observe, it is the more enraged …
358 wordsSECTION 152Hosea 13:9
Hosea 13:9 Ver. 9. O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself,.... Though the Lord was a lion, a leopard, and a bear to them, yet their destruction was not owing to him, but to themselves; he was not chargeable with it, but they only; the fault and blame was theirs; their own sins brought it on them, and provoked him to su…
764 wordsSECTION 153Hosea 13:10
Hosea 13:10 Ver. 10. I will be thy King, where [is any other] that may save thee in all thy cities?.... Governor, Protector, and Defender; and so confirming what is before said, that their help was in him: or, as the Targum, Abarbinel, and others {n}, "where is thy king now, that he may serve thee in all thy cities?" …
3,225 wordsSECTION 154Hosea 14:1
Hosea 14:1 INTRODUCTION TO HOSEA 14 This chapter concludes the book, with gracious promises to repenting sinners, to returning backsliders. It begins with an exhortation to Israel to return to the Lord, seeing he was their God, and they had fallen by sin from prosperity into adversity, temporal and spiritual, Ho 14:1…
599 wordsSECTION 155Hosea 14:2
Hosea 14:2 Ver. 2. Take with you words, and turn to the Lord,.... Not mere words without the heart, but such as come from it, and express the true sense of it; words of confession, as the Targum; by which sin is acknowledged, and repentance declared, and forgiveness asked. Kimchi's note is a very good one; "he (that …
1,066 wordsSECTION 156Hosea 14:3
Hosea 14:3 Ver. 3. Ashur shall not save us,.... This is still a continuation of the words repenting and returning Israel are directed to make use of before the Lord, declaring they would not do any more as they had done; to Assyria, or the kings of Assyria, as the Targum, for help, and desire assistance, and expect de…
380 wordsSECTION 157Hosea 14:4
Hosea 14:4 Ver. 4. I will heal their backslidings,.... This and what follows is the Lord's answer to the above prayer; and this clause particularly is an answer to that petition, "take away all iniquity", Ho 14:2; sins are diseases, natural and hereditary, nauseous and loathsome, mortal, and incurable but by the grace…
452 wordsSECTION 158Hosea 14:5
Hosea 14:5 Ver. 5. I will be as the dew unto Israel,.... To spiritual Israel, to those that return to the Lord, take with them words, and pray unto him, whose backslidings are healed, and they are freely loved; otherwise it is said of apostate Israel or Ephraim, that they were "smitten, [and] their root dried up, [and…
1,033 wordsSECTION 159Hosea 14:6
Hosea 14:6 Ver. 6. His branches shall spread,.... As the well rooted cedars in Lebanon; see Nu 24:6. This respects the propagation of the church of God, and the interest of Christ in the world, as in the first times of the Gospel, and will be in the latter day; when the Gospel shall be spread everywhere; churches set …
414 wordsSECTION 160Hosea 14:7
Hosea 14:7 Ver. 7. They that dwell under his shadow shall return,.... Either under the shadow of Lebanon, as Japhet and Jarchi; the shadow of that mountain, or of the trees that grew upon it; or under the shadow of Israel, the church, to which young converts have recourse, and under which they sit with pleasure; or ra…
793 wordsSECTION 161Hosea 14:8
Hosea 14:8 Ver. 8. 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 was no hope of getting him from them; and therefore is bid to let him alone, Ho 4:17; but of Ephraim…
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