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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Hosea 8:10

Princes. Hebrew, "king of kings." This proud title was afterwards taken by the monarchs of Babylon and Persia. Israel ceased to pay taxes, having nothing left. They shall cease to be a people. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "I will receive them, and they shall cease a little to anoint a king and princes." (Haydock) --- They had none during the captivity, as they would not consult God before in their appointment, ver. 4. He speaks ironically. I will conduct them beyond the Euphrates, where they shall have nothing to pay for some time. (Calmet) --- This wretched condition was of long continuance; (Tournemine) though short, if compared with their crimes. (Haydock)

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See also Hosea 8:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 8:10. _FOR THE BURDEN OF THE KING OF PRINCES._] The exactions of the Assyrian king, and the princes of the provinces....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    YEA, THOUGH THEY HAVE HIRED - Or better, “because or when they hinge among the pagan, now will I gather them;” i. e., I will gather the nations together. The sin of Israel should bring its own punishm...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 8:1-9:9 The Apostasy is Followed by Judgment _ 1. The judgment announced (Hosea 8:1) _ 2. The apostasy which resulted in judgment (Hosea 8:8) 3. Warning against self-security (Hosea 9:1)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL'S UNSANCTIFIED NATIONAL LIFE. Man-made kings, like man-made gods (the calf of Samaria), are impotent; Israel sows the wind and shall reap the whirlwind; the sources of the national life are wit...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HIRED. hired [lovers]. GATHER. gather [against]. THEM: i.e. the nations (Israel's lovers). SORROW. be in woe. A LITTLE. in. little time, speedily; as in Haggai 2:6. The Hebrew accents indicate tha...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The judgment is already begun; Israel has drawn it upon himself, by dallying with Assyria, by religious abuses, and by a vain confidence in fortified cities....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This verse is obscure, and open to a variety of interpretations; the following however seems by far the most probable. _Yea, though they have hired among the nations_ Rather, YEA, THOUGH THEY HIRE, &...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _ISRAEL MADE ALTARS TO SIN -- HOSEA 8:8-11:_ Idolatry brought spiritual ruin upon Israel. The idolatry of Israel had ruined that nation and the gentile nations considered them worthless. "They be amon...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR THEY ARE GONE UP TO ASSYRIA— These verses are connected with that preceding, and are thus translated by Houbigant: _Because they go to the Assyrian, though the Assyrian is nothing more than a wild...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT: Hosea 8:8-14 8 Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein none delighteth. 9 For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath h...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes. YEA, THOUGH THEY HAVE HIRED AMONG THE NATIONS, NOW WILL...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    8:10 under (d-19) Or 'they shall be set free a little from.' princes. (e-26) Isaiah 10:8 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE LONG-MERITED RETRIBUTION The enemy is coming immediately to destroy their temples and palaces and desolate the land, and as a punishment for their idolatry and disloyalty to God. In vain will the...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 8 GOD IS ANGRY WITH ISRAEL BECAUSE SHE PRAYS TO *IDOLS V1 Put a *trumpet to your lips and warn people! An *eagle is over the *L...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    There is much difference of opinion as to the interpretation of this verse. Much depends on the reference of the word “them.” We prefer to regard it as referring to Ephraim rather than to the nations...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    גַּ֛ם כִּֽי ־יִתְנ֥וּ בַ † גֹּויִ֖ם עַתָּ֣ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    2. ARTIFICIAL KINGS AND ARTIFICIAL GODS Hosea 8:4 The curse of such a state of dissipation as that to which Israel had fallen is that it produces no men. Had the people had in them "the root of the m...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    REAPING THE WHIRLWIND Hosea 8:1-14 A conqueror was at hand who should subdue and punish the whole nation for taking its own course, irrespective of God, Hosea 8:4-8; for seeking foreign alliances whi...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    From this statement of the case the prophet turned to the pronouncement of judgment. This he did by adopting the figure of the trumpet lifted to the mouth, on which five blasts were sounded, in each o...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the (h) burden of the king of princes. (h) That is, for the king and the princes will lay upo...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here is a very striking passage in these words of the Lord, and is as suited to all ages as to the age of Israel. The Lord saith, that the great things he wrote to Israel were counted by them strange...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    XI. HOSEA 8:7 (NASB) FOR THEY SOW THE WIND, AND THEY REAP THE WHIRLWIND......

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    But it follows, _Though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them_. This place may be variously expounded. The commonly received explanation is, that God would gather the hired nations...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 8 it is especially the daring and continual violation of the law of their God, with which Israel is openly reproached, and which would bring judgment, with eagle swiftness, upon them. Obser...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    YEA, THOUGH THEY HAVE HIRED AMONG THE NATIONS,.... That is, lovers, as before; got into confederacies and alliances with the nations about them, thinking thereby to strengthen their hands, and secure...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes. Ver. 10. _Yea, though they have hired among the nations_]...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Yea, though they have hired_ Namely, allies; _among the nations_ And have been no way solicitous to gain my favour or help; _now will I gather them_ I will now (though they make so little account of...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Yea, though they have hired among the nations, in the unnatural attempt of buying friendships, NOW WILL I GATHER THEM, bringing them together among the nations, but in the capacity of captives, AND TH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A FURTHER THREAT OF JUDGMENT...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SORROW: Or, begin...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-10 They promised themselves plenty, peace, and victory, by worshipping idols, but their expectations came to nothing. What they sow has no stalk, no blade, or, if it have, the bud shall yield no fr...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    YEA, THOUGH; or, Yea, because; they think this the way to prevent their calamities, but it shall appear this was the ready way to bring their calamities upon them; and forasmuch as they have hired the...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 8:10 hired H8566 (H8799) nations H1471 gather H6908 (H8762) sorrow H2490 (H8686) little H4592 burden...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Yes, because they hire among the nations, Now will I gather them, And they begin to be diminished, By reason of the burden of the king of princes.' YHWH therefore intends to ‘gather' them for judg...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    BECAUSE ISRAEL HAVE DESERTED YHWH AND LOOKED TO OTHERS, (BOTH NATIONS AND GODS), IN SPITE OF HAVING RECEIVED HIS ABUNDANT INSTRUCTION, HE WILL DESERT THEM AND THEY WILL RETURN TO EGYPT AND SEE THEIR C...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Sins denounced and captivity foretold. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Those who sow to the flesh must reap corruption. All the hopes of sinners are cheats, and...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Hosea 8:1. _Set the trumpet to thy mouth._ Give alarm, for the king of Assyria is coming; he is stretching his wings like an eagle to take the prey. Isaiah uses the same figure, in Isaiah 58:1. _Again...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 8:1 The people of Israel may claim to know and love the Lord, but their deeds prove otherwise. ⇐ ⇔

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 8:9. ASSY-] to gain friendship and alliance. WILD ASS] A comparison which shows their folly, not as a paramour burning in lust, but heady, obstinate, and undisciplined; outstrip...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This chapter deals with the punishment of apostasy. Once more the sins of the northern kingdom are enumerated and its approaching fall predicted. There is a close connection between the ver...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law (Hsa Hosea 8:1). So God again is giving...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 5:26; 2 Kings 14:26; 2 Kings 15:19; 2 Kings 15:20;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Gather them — I will assemble them together, that they may be taken and destroyed together. A little — For a while before their final captivity. The burden — The tribute laid on them by the king....

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