George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Hosea 13:8
Whelps; with the greatest fury, 2 Kings xvii. 8. --- Inner. Hebrew, "what encloses the heart;" or, I will break their hard heart. (Calmet)
Whelps; with the greatest fury, 2 Kings xvii. 8. --- Inner. Hebrew, "what encloses the heart;" or, I will break their hard heart. (Calmet)
Verse Hosea 13:8. _AS A BEAR - BEREAVED_] This is a figure to denote excessive ferocity. 2 Samuel 17:8, where a remarkable instance is given. _AND WILL REND THE CAUL OF THEIR HEART_] Every savage be...
AS A BEAR BEREAVED OF HER WHELPS - The Syrian bear is fiercer than the brown bears to which we are accustomed. It attacks flocks 1 Samuel 17:34, and even oxen . The fierceness of the she-bear, “bereav...
CHAPTER 13 EPHRAIM'S RUIN AND JUDGMENT _ 1. Ruin and judgment (Hosea 13:1) _ 2. It is thy destruction, O Israel! (Hosea 13:9) 3. Mercy to follow wrath (Hosea 13:12) 4. The desolation of the nearin...
HOSEA 13:1 (= Heb. Hosea 13:1 to Hosea 14:1). FACILIS DESCENSUS AVERNO. Israel has persistently lapsed into the Baal-worship and idolatry, and therefore shall be swept away as the chaff ...
CAUL. enclosure (i.e. the pericardium). THE WILD BEAST SHALL TEAR THEM. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:22)....
Israel signed his own death-warrant when he lapsed into Baal-worship. Foolish as it is to -kiss calves", they persist in the practice. Therefore the nation can but drift away, like cloud, or chaff, or...
_as a dear_ A striking but uncommon comparison. Comp. Lamentations 3:10. _the caul of their heart_ Rather, THE ENCLOSURE OF THEIR HEART, i.e., not the _pericardium_, which is what the Authorized Vers...
_CONSEQUENCES OF REBELLION -- HOSEA 13:5-8:_ God took care of the nation of Israel while they were in the wilderness. He loved and accepted them because they were obedient to Him. He demonstrated His...
REQUITINGGOD WILL PUNISH TEXT: Hosea 13:1-8 1 When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died, 2 And now they sin more and more, and ha...
I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. I WILL MEET THEM AS A BE...
ISRAEL'S IDOLATRY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES The main thought of this c., which is a continuation of the last (cp. Hosea 12:9; Hosea 13:4), is the folly of Israel incurring the enmity of God, who had shown...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 13 FINAL *JUDGEMENT ON ISRAEL V1 *Ephraim made himself very important in Israel. *Ephraim spoke and people shook with fear....
The same imagery is continued to describe the destructive wrath of the Lord. “The caul of the heart” means here the covering of the heart, not the pericardium, but the breast in which the claws of the...
אֶפְגְּשֵׁם֙ כְּ דֹ֣ב שַׁכּ֔וּל וְ אֶקְרַ֖ע ס
THE FINAL ARGUMENT Hosea 12:1 - Hosea 14:1 THE impassioned call with which the last chapter closed was by no means an assurance of salvation: "How am I to give thee, up, Ephraim? how am I to let thee...
TO OPPOSE GOD IS DESTRUCTION Hosea 13:1-14 Again, a very tender chapter. The lips that speak with trembling betray the heart that God can exalt. But when we turn to Baal, the emblem of self-confiden...
In the second movement Jehovah set the present sin in the light of His present love. The sin of Ephraim and the sin of Judah, if the marginal reading be adopted, are both declared. The sin of Ephraim...
Turning from this main line of the divine message, we now examine the prophet's interpolations. These set forth the history of Israel indicating their relation to Jehovah, and pronounce judgment. They...
I do not presume to interpret those verses as with an eye to mercy only; no doubt they contain under several similitudes, tokens of the Lord's heavy judgments. But to the Ephraims of the Lord, those w...
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...
But he afterwards adds, _I will rend, _or _will tear_, _the inclosure of their heart_. They who understand the enclosure of the heart to be their obstinate hardness, seem to refine too much on the wor...
Chapter 13 is the perpetual conflict of the affections and the judgment of God. The thought of their sin calls forth the announcement of the necessary and inevitable judgment. As soon as the judgment...
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 g...
I will meet them as a bear [that is] bereaved [of her whelps], and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. Ver. 8. _I mill meet th...
_According to their pasture_, &c. As I was their shepherd, and provided pasture for them, so they were fully fed; they had an abundant plenty of all things. _And their heart was exalted_ The consequen...
GOD'S BENEFITS SCORNED BY ISRAEL...
I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, which is known for her fierceness, AND WILL REND THE CAUL OF THEIR HEART, the pericardium or membrane enclosing the heart, AND THERE WILL I D...
THE WILD BEAST: _ Heb._ the beast of the field...
1-8 While Ephraim kept up a holy fear of God, and worshipped Him in that fear, so long he was very considerable. When Ephraim forsook God, and followed idolatry, he sunk. Let the men that sacrifice k...
I WILL MEET THEM; I know their haunts, their walks, I will not fail to meet them there. AS A BEAR BEREAVED OF HER WHELPS; robbed of her whelps, newly taken away, which makes her mad with rage; so grea...
Hosea 13:8 meet H6298 (H8799) bear H1677 deprived H7909 open H7167 (H8799) cage H5458 H3820 devour...
‘Therefore am I to them as a lion, As a leopard will I watch by the way, I will meet them as a bear which is bereaved of her whelps, And will rend the enclosure of their heart, And there will I de...
BECAUSE EPHRAIM HAVE OFFENDED SO DEEPLY, AND HAVE REJECTED THEIR DELIVERER, JUDGMENT UPON THEM IS INEVITABLE (HOSEA 13:1). The crimes of Israel are again laid bear. They are guilty of idolatry (Hosea...
Hosea 13:1. _When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel;_ When we are little in our own esteem, when we are full of fears concerning ourselves, when we dare not think of boasting, the...
Hosea was full of complaints against the people of God; for, in his day, they had very sadly wandered from the Lord. They had even forgotten him. In Hosea's prophecy, we have the plaintive voice of a...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Israel's ruin. Ultimate blessing in the kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Worldly prosperity, which feeds men's pride, makes them forgetful of God, a...
Hosea 13:2. _Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves._ The readings vary here. The LXX, “You must sacrifice men, for there are no more calves.” The Vulgate Latin reads, “Sacrifice the men that wors...
_I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought._ WILDERNESS-KNOWLEDGE God knows His people where nobody else will take any notice of them. You do not know a man until you know him i...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 13:1 The man-made gods that Israel worships are nothing compared to their actual God, who is living, active, and true to his word. ⇐...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 13:7 LION... LEOPARD... BEAR. Images of judgment (see Hosea 5:14; Amos 3:12
CRITICAL NOTES.] HOSEA 13:5. KNOW] _i.e._ cared for them, and loved them as his own (Psalms 144:3; Amos 3:2). HOSEA 13:6.] A reproof
EXPOSITION The first eight verses of this chapter form the premises from which the prophet, in the ninth verse, draws the conclusion that the conduct of Israel had been suicidal; that they had brought...
Now when Ephraim was speaking trembling (Hsa Hosea 13:1), That is, when Ephraim was not proud and exalted, but recognized their own weakness and all, then the LORD exalted himself in Israel; but whe...
2 Samuel 17:8; Amos 9:1; Isaiah 5:29; Isaiah 56:9; Jeremiah 12:9;...
Rent — First kill, then tear in pieces, and pull out the very heart....