Returned, imitating Apis, the folly of Egypt. They have repeatedly followed idols in Egypt, and in the desert, under Jeroboam, Achab, Jehu, &c. --- Deceitful. Septuagint, "bent." Theodoret reads, "unbent." It never hits the mark, (Calmet) but wounds the person who uses it. (St. Jerome) --- Derision. The Egyptians laugh at them; (Calmet) or thus they acted heretofore, in Egypt. (Chaldean)
Verse 16. _THEY RETURN_, BUT _NOT TO THE MOST HIGH_] They go to their idols. _THEY ARE LIKE A DECEITFUL BOW_] Which, when it is _reflexed_, in order to be strung, suddenly _springs back_ into its _q...
THEY RETURN, BUT NOT TO THE MOST HIGH - God exhorts by Jeremiah, “If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return unto Me” Jeremiah 4:1. They changed, whenever they did change, with a feigned, h...
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...
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...
TO THE MOST HIGH. to Him Who is on high. Compare Hosea 11:7. A DECEITFUL BOW. That disappoints the user, and cannot be depended upon. Compare Psalms 78:57. FOR. because of. DERISION. ridicule....
_They return, but not to the most High_ Rather, THEY TURN (i.e. shift or change), BUT NOT UPWARDS (as Hosea 11:7). They are not content with passive complaints; they have reached a turning-point in th...
_ISRAEL REBELLED MORE AND MORE -- HOSEA 7:14-16:_ The rebellion of Israel against God has brought on devastation. God was their rightful king and ruler. He had always ruled fairly and with their good...
THEY RETURN, BUT NOT TO THE MOST HIGH— _They have endeavoured again to be without yoke: They are become like a deceitful bow: Their princes shall fall by the sword. For the wantonness of their tongue,...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDELOVE OF SIN TEXT: Hosea 7:8-16 8 Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea...
They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. THEY RE...
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...
THEY RETURN, etc.] Their turning is ever farther away from God. THEIR PRINCES SHALL FALL] As a punishment for their insolence they would perish amidst the derision of the very people whose aid they ha...
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....
LIKE A DECEITFUL BOW. — Religious observance has the appearance of a bow with the arrow on the string, apparently aimed at some object, but the string being slack, the aim is diverted. The “raving ins...
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THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
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...
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...
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...
They return, [but] not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage (n) of their tongue: this [shall be] their derision in the land of Egypt. (n...
We have here a continuation of the same subject, namely, the Lord's remonstrance with Israel. But I pray the Reader to observe, how many sweet and gracious expressions of our God are mingled with his...
REFLECTIONS READER! let this Chapter, as many other Chapter s of the same nature and doctrine are highly calculated for, lead your heart and mine, under the teachings and influences of God the Holy Gh...
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...
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,...
The Prophet again assails the perverse wickedness of Israel, and also their fraud and perfidiousness. Hence he says that they feigned some sort of repentance, but it was nothing else than false; for t...
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...
THEY RETURN, [BUT] NOT TO THE MOST HIGH,.... To Egypt, and not to Jerusalem, and the temple there, and the worship of it; to their idols, and not to him whose name alone is Jehovah, and is the most Hi...
They return, [but] not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this [shall be] their derision in the land of Egypt. Ver. 1...
_Though I have bound_, &c. Though, after bringing them low, I have given them new strength and vigour; _yet do they imagine mischief against me_ Yet they are continually devising some new idolatrous i...
They return, but not to the Most High, or, "upwards," with their faces turned to His power alone; THEY ARE LIKE A DECEITFUL BOW, whose string has lost its tenseness and cannot carry the arrow to its m...
HYPOCRISY REBUKED...
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...
THEY RETURN; they sometimes have given some signs of returning, as when Jehu destroyed Baal, or Hoshea gave liberty to Israel to go up to Jerusalem (if it be true which some affirm of him); and if I w...
Hosea 7:16 return H7725 (H8799) High H5920 treacherous H7423 bow H7198 princes H8269 fall H5307 (H8799) sword...
EPHRAIM (ISRAEL) ARE PICTURED AS A HAPLESS DOVE FLUTTERING BETWEEN EGYPT AND ASSYRIA AS THEY ENDEAVOUR TO AVOID YHWH'S NET (HOSEA 7:11). Ephraim are now depicted as being willing to do anything rather...
‘They return, but not to on high, They are like an unreliable bow, Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue, This will be their derision in the land of Egypt. Thus it was t...
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...
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...
_They return, but not to the Most High._ PARTIAL REPENTANCE Sin, in its worst, forms, was rampant in the land, and the very rulers rejoiced in the wickedness of their people. The cause of all this so...
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....
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 7:16 EGYPT here represents all foreign powers but refers specifically to Israel’s time of slavery in Egypt (Exodus 1:1). Like other historical references in...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 7:15. BOUND] Weakened and relaxed, an image from surgery (_chastened_, marg.). “Instructing the arms, according to the analogy of Psalms 18:35, is equivalent to showing where an...
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...
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...
2 Peter 2:8; Ezekiel 23:32; Ezekiel 36:20; Hosea 11:7; Hosea 6:4;...
Not to the most high — What shew soever of repentance was among them, yet they never throughly repented. A deceitful bow — Tho' they seemed bent for, and aiming at the mark, yet like a weak bow they c...