Not man. I am not actuated by the spirit of revenge, nor do I fear lest my enemy escape. (Calmet) --- I punish in order to reclaim, (St. Jerome) and reserve eternal vengeance only for those who die impenitent. --- Holy one. If there be a just man in Israel, I will spare the nation; (Genesis xviii. 32.) or there are some just, like Tobias, and therefore a part shall be reserved; or, (Calmet) I am the just (Haydock) God. (St. Jerome)
Verse Hosea 11:9. _I WILL NOT EXECUTE_] Here is the _issue_ of this conflict in the Divine mind. Mercy triumphs over Judgment; Ephraim shall be spared. _He is God, and not man_. He cannot be affected...
I WILL NOT EXECUTE THE FIERCENESS OF MINE ANGER - It is the voice of “mercy, rejoicing over judgment.” mercy prevails in God over the rigor of His justice, that though He will not suffer them to go ut...
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...
I AM GOD, AND NOT MAN. Figure of speech _Pleonasm_ (App-6): put both ways for emphasis. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 23:19). Compare Isaiah 55:8; Isaiah 55:9;...
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...
_I will not return_, &c. The strict rendering of the words is, -I will not again destroy Ephraim"; the sense however, is, I WILL NOT BRING BACK EPHRAIM TO NOTHING. He who moulded Ephraim into a nation...
_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?...
AND I WILL NOT ENTER INTO THE CITY— _And I will not come as an enemy._ Houbigant renders it, _Nor am I come speedily to depart from thee:_ and he supposes that the contrast in this and the former clau...
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...
I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city. I WILL NOT R...
11:9 anger. (g-38) Some translate 'come into the city.'...
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] RV 'But.' In spite of all this I will not leave you to your evil ways. TABERNACLES] RV 'tents.' Israel had learned nothing since the days in the wilderness. In religion and morality they were st...
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....
This sublime passage is remarkable as drawing illustrations from human emotions, and yet repudiating all human weakness. It suggests a hint of Divine mercy in its greatness, and of Divine justice too,...
לֹ֤א אֶֽעֱשֶׂה֙ חֲרֹ֣ון אַפִּ֔י לֹ֥א אָשׁ֖וּב...
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-...
“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...
I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I [am] God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not (i) enter into the city. (i) To c...
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...
Then follows an explanation of this sentence,_I will not execute the fury of my wrath: _by which figurative mode of speaking he sets forth the punishment which was suitable to the sins of men. For it...
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...
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...
I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I [am] God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city. Ver. 9. _I w...
_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 _...
Assurances of God's Mercy...
I will not execute the fierceness of Mine anger, although He had every reason to be deeply incensed over the behavior of Ephraim; I WILL NOT RETURN TO DESTROY EPHRAIM, He still holds out a hope of del...
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...
Here mercy rejoiceth against judgment, and God declareth his purpose to spare, he promiseth that he will not execute according to utmost severity. This promise he confirmeth by doubling it, though in...
Hosea 11:9 execute H6213 (H8799) fierceness H2740 anger H639 again H7725 (H8799) destroy H7843 (H8763) Ephraim...
I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim, For I am God, and not man, The Holy One in the midst of you, And I will not come in wrath.' Thus while He wou...
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...
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,...
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, 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....
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...
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...
1 Samuel 26:8; 2 Samuel 20:10; Deuteronomy 32:26; Deuteronomy 32:27;...
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...
Return — Conquerors that plunder the conquered city, carry away the wealth of it, and after some time return to burn it; God will not do so. Not man — Therefore my compassions fail not. The holy One —...