George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Hosea 11:8
Adama, &c. Adama and Seboim were two cities in the neighbourhood of Sodom, and underwent the like destruction. (Challoner) --- God punishes, like a father, with regret.
Adama, &c. Adama and Seboim were two cities in the neighbourhood of Sodom, and underwent the like destruction. (Challoner) --- God punishes, like a father, with regret.
Verse Hosea 11:8. _HOW SHALL I GIVE THEE UP_] Hosea 6:4, where we have similar words from similar feeling. _MINE HEART IS TURNED WITHIN ME_] _Justice_ demands thy _punishment;_ _Mercy_ pleads for th...
HOW SHALL I GIVE THEE UP, EPHRAIM? - o: “God is infinitely just and infinitely merciful. The two attributes are so united in Him, yea, so one in Him who is always one, and in whose counsels “there is...
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...
THE DIVINE FATHER'S LOVE FOR ISRAEL. In Israel's youth Yahweh loved him, and called him from Egypt to be His son, but he proved disloyal, sacrificing to the Baalim (Hosea 11:1 f.). Yet it was Yahweh w...
HOW... ? Figures of speech _Erotesis_ and _Pathopoeia._ App-6. ADMAH... ZEBOIM. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 10:19; Genesis 14:2; Genesis 14:8;...
_deliver thee_ Not in the sense of ὑπερασπιῶ of the Sept., but in that of Symmachus" ἐκδώσω. Better, SURRENDER THEE. _Admah … Zeboim_ Hosea, like the author of Deuteronomy 29:23, derives his knowledge...
The prophet cannot believe in a final rejection of Israel (comp. Hosea 13:14). He speaks as if Jehovah had at first contemplated this. Evidently there was a conflict in his own mind between the ideas...
_ISRAEL WAS BENT TO BACKSLIDING -- HOSEA 11:7-9:_ God's people were bent on or inclined towards backsliding. They were determined to reject the Almighty for gods that they thought were stronger the He...
DISCOURSE: 1171 GOD’S COMPASSION Hosea 11:7. My people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt him: [yet] how shall I give thee up, Ephraim?...
HOW SHALL I GIVE THEE UP? &C.— The mercy of the Almighty is here pathetically represented as contending with his justice; to shew _that he does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men. Adm...
RECOGNIZING GOD'S COMPASSION REMONSTRATING TEXT: Hosea 11:1-9 1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. 2 The more the prophets called them, the more they went...
How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together...
11:8 over, (f-6) Or 'What shall I do with thee?'...
THE INGRATITUDE OF ISRAEL Jehovah had been like a tender father and a kind master to Israel from the first, yet had they ever rejected Him and turned to idols. He cannot bear the thought of punishing...
AND EPHRAIM] The Israelites had only too readily learnt the tricks of cheating from the Canaanites. YET] RV 'surely.' It is the natural consequence of his unjust dealing. IN ALL.. SIN] Israel is never...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 11 ISRAEL HAS FORGOTTEN THE *LORD V1 ‘I, (the *Lord), loved Israel when he was a child. I called my son out of Egypt....
In the depth of despair the prophet delivers himself of one of the most pathetic passages in Hebrew prophecy. On the darkest cloud gleams the bow of promise. A nation so much beloved as Israel cannot...
אֵ֞יךְ אֶתֶּנְךָ֣ אֶפְרַ֗יִם אֲמַגֶּנְךָ֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֵ֚יךְ...
THE FATHERHOOD AND HUMANITY OF GOD Hosea 11:1 FROM the thick jungle of Hosea's travail, the eleventh chapter breaks like a high and open mound. The prophet enjoys the first of his two clear visions-...
11; Hosea 2:1; Hosea 3:1 THE SIN AGAINST LOVE Hosea 1:1; Hosea 2:1; Hosea 3:1
“BANDS OF LOVE” Hosea 11:1-11 This is a very tender chapter, full of moving appeals. God looks back on the happy, blessed past, as a fond parent on the innocent childhood of a son who is now causing...
The third cycle of the prophecy sets forth the love which Jehovah had for His people, notwithstanding their sin. This section sets forth Jehovah's love toward His sinning people, and, for the most par...
(f) How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? [how] shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as (g) Admah? [how] shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, (h) my repentings are k...
Reader! pause over those precious words, and ponder well their gracious meaning. Admah and Zeboim, were the cities the Lord destroyed with Sodom and Gomorrah. Deuteronomy 29:23. Now, as the inhabitant...
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 God consults what he would do with the people: and first, indeed, he shows that it was his purpose to execute vengeance, such as the Israelites deserved, even wholly to destroy them: but yet he a...
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...
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...
How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? [how] shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? [how] shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled toget...
_How shall I give thee up, Ephraim_ To utter destruction? God's mercy is here pathetically described as contending with his justice, to show that he does not willingly destroy, or even _afflict_, or _...
How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? What would be the proper measure of punishment to mete out to such a stubborn people?. HOW SHALL I DELIVER THEE, ISRAEL? namely, to a proper measure of chastisement....
Assurances of God's Mercy...
8-12 God is slow to anger, and is loth to abandon a people to utter ruin, who have been called by his name. When God was to give a sacrifice for sin, and a Saviour for sinners, he spared not his own...
After such unparalleled abuse of infinite mercy and patience, what could be expected, but unrelenting wrath and fiercest indignation? but here is a wonder above all the rest; bowels troubled, and stru...
Hosea 11:8 up H5414 (H8799) Ephraim H669 over H4042 (H8762) Israel H3478 make H5414 (H8799) Admah...
‘How shall I give you up, Ephraim? How shall I cast you off, Israel? How shall I make you as Admah? How shall I set you as Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, My compassions are kindled togeth...
YHWH DESCRIBES HOW HE HAD CALLED HIS SON (ISRAEL) OUT OF EGYPT AND WATCHED OVER HIM AS A FAITHFUL FATHER, TRAINING HIM IN THE RIGHT WAY, ONLY FOR HIS SON'S HEART TO REMAIN IN EGYPT SO THAT HE WOULD IN...
REPENTINGS (_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 8:14). _...
Hosea 11:1. _When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt._ God's love was very early love. He began with the nation of Israel when it was a mere handful of men in Egypt....
Hosea 11:1. _When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt._ God remembers what he did for us when we were young; and sin against him is much aggravated by his long kindne...
Hosea 11:1. _When Israel was a child,_ When the nation was yet young, and had scarcely started on its march among the peoples of the earth: «When Israel was a child,» Hosea 11:1. _Then I loved him,...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. His tender love for Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Though men who have had relationship with God are ripe for ruin because of following their own couns...
Hosea 11:1. _When Israel was a child I loved him._ I led Joseph like a flock, by the hands of Moses and Aaron. I protected him among the kings of Canaan. I fed and multiplied him in Egypt; and when th...
_How shall I give thee up, Ephraim?_ GOD’S FEELING IN THE FACE OF MAN’S OBSTINACY Many have been the ways adopted by God to communicate His thoughts and reveal His will to the human race. But in all...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 11:8 HOW CAN I GIVE YOU UP? The Lord expresses his unfailing love (compare Isaiah 49:15;...
CRITICAL NOTES. HOSEA 11:7. BENT] Lit. hung suspended on backsliding, “impaled or fastened upon apostasy as upon a stake, so that it cannot get loose” [_Keil_]. NONE] Lit. together they exalted not,...
EXPOSITION In Hosea 11:1 Jehovah enumerates the benefits conferred on Israel all along from the time of their departure out of Egypt. But parallel with this enumeration runs the history of Israel's i...
God continues His lament and all. He said, When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt (Hsa Hosea 11:1). Now, this verse has been used in Matthew's gospel as a prophecy...
2 Kings 13:23; 2 Peter 2:6; 2 Samuel 24:16; Amos 4:11; Amos 7:3;...
A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF HOSEA Hosea 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As introductory to our study of the Book of Hosea, we propose to show how God wrote His messages in Hosea, as well as by him. There is a ver...
Give thee up — To utter destruction. Admah and Zeboim were two of the four cities which were destroyed with fire from heaven. My repentings — Not that God is ever fluctuating or unresolved; but these...