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Verse Hosea 12:8. _I AM BECOME RICH_] They boasted in their riches,
notwithstanding the _unjust manner_ in which they were acquired.
IN _ALL MY LABOURS THEY SHALL FIND NONE INIQUITY IN ME_] This is...
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AND EPHRAIM SAID, YET AM I BECOME RICH - Literally, “I am simply
rich.” As if he said, “the only result of all this, with which the
prophets charge me, is that ‘I am become rich:’ and since God thus
p...
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CHAPTER S 11:12-12:14 THE INDICTMENT
_ 1. Ephraim's indictment (Hosea 11:12; Hosea 12:1) _
2. Remembrance of the past (Hosea 12:3)
3. What Israel had become ...
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HOSEA 11:12 TO HOSEA 12:14 (= Hebrews 12:1). EPHRAIM'S INFIDELITY
TRACED FROM THE BEGINNING. This is one of the most difficult passages
in Hosea. In the text Judah also is mentioned; but this may be d...
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LABOURS. toils.
INIQUITY. perversity. Hebrew. _'avah_. App-44. Not the same word as in
Hosea 12:11.
THAT WERE. which [is]....
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_And Ephraim said_ Better, EPHRAIM INDEED SAID, SURELY I HAVE BECOME
RICH, I HAVE GOTTEN ME WEALTH: ALL MY PROFITS SHALL BRING ME NO
INIQUITY THAT WERE A SIN. Ephraim congratulates himself on his rich...
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Not Israel, but Canaan should he be called; for his ideal is Canaan's.
The end justifies the means, and his end is to become rich! But how
bitterly will he be disappointed. He must in short begin his...
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_PAYING FOR DISHONESTY IN BUSINESS -- HOSEA 12:7-10:_ Israel had
become deceitful. They enjoyed cheating and taking advantage of other
people. These dishonest people would use a heavy weight to buy wi...
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IN ALL MY LABOURS, &C.— _My labours shall be my own nor shall the
iniquity be found out, wherein I have sinned._ Houbigant....
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REQUITINGEPHRAIM HAS PROVOKED
TEXT: Hosea 12:7-14
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He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth
to oppress.
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And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me...
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And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out
substance: in all my labours they shall And Ephraim said, Yet I am
become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they
shall...
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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...
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A REPROOF OF COMMERCIAL DISHONESTY
The Hebrew text divides the chapter more correctly at this v. The
prophet returns to the subject of the unfaithfulness both of Israel
and of Judah. They have sought...
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THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING
HOSEA
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 12
V1 There is much that the people of Israel do from morning to night.
But it has no worth. They tell lies and they destroy thi...
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Translate, _And Ephraim saith, Surely I have become wealthy; I have
gotten me substance_ (_i.e.,_ by legitimate means, not robbery): _all
my earnings bring me not guilt as would be sin_ (_i.e.,_ requi...
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_[Hosea 12:9]_ וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֶפְרַ֔יִם אַ֣ךְ
עָשַׁ֔רְתִּי...
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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...
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TURN TO GOD, NOT TO SELFISH GAIN
Hosea 11:12; Hosea 12:1-14
Though Judah still ruled with God, Hosea 11:12, yet there was grave
fault in him, and, like Ephraim, which had been engaging the prophet's...
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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...
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And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance:
[in] all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me (h) that
[were] sin.
(h) Thus way the wicked measure God's favour by out...
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_Idol. Hebrew also, "vanity." Riches are vain, and lead to idolatry
when people place their affections on them, Matthew xiii. 22., and
Ephesians v. 5. --- Committed. I am conscious of no injustice.
(C...
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The Prophet here follows up the just and becoming resolution which
ought to take place in every heart of Jacob's children, whether
Ephraim or Judah, in pursuing the steps of their father. And he goes...
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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...
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Here God complains by his Prophet, that the Israelites flattered
themselves in their vices, because their affairs succeeded
prosperously and according to their wishes: and it is a vice too
common, tha...
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The Spirit presents another aspect of the relationship of Israel with
God. He would punish Ephraim, and the sins of Judah should be
remembered. But He reminds them, that there was a time when Jacob
co...
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AND EPHRAIM SAID, YET I AM BECOME RICH,.... Notwithstanding they took
such unjust methods, as to use deceitful balances, they prospered in
the world, got abundance of riches; and therefore concluded f...
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And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance:
[in] all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that [were]
sin.
Ver. 8. _And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich_] _Sed...
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_He is a merchant_, &c. Bishop Horsley renders this verse thus:
_Canaan the trafficker! The cheating balances in his hand! He has set
his heart upon over-reaching!_ On which the bishop observes, “God...
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IN ALL MY LABOURS THEY SHALL FIND NONE INIQUITY IN ME, THAT WERE SIN:
Or, all my labours suffice me not, he shall have punishment of
iniquity in whom is sin...
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7-14 Ephraim became a merchant: the word also signifies a Canaanite.
They carried on trade upon Canaanitish principles, covetously and with
fraud and deceit. Thus they became rich, and falsely suppos...
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EPHRAIM SAID; this covetous, oppressive merchant reckoned with
himself, or discoursed with himself, upon the whole of his trading.
YET I AM BECOME RICH; whatever is said by some, or thought by others,...
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Hosea 12:8 Ephraim H669 said H559 (H8799) rich H6238 (H8804) found
H4672 (H8804) wealth H202 labors...
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HAVING MADE HIS APPEAL FOR REPENTANCE HOSEA NOW INDICATES THAT EPHRAIM
ARE SO CONFIDENT IN THEMSELVES THAT THEIR ONLY HOPE WILL BE AFTER THEY
HAVE BEEN ‘BROUGHT DOWN A PEG OR TWO' (HOSEA 12:8).
This p...
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‘And Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth
for myself, in all my labours they will find in me no iniquity that
was sin.”
In total contrast with Hosea's accusation in Hosea 12:7...
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AN APPEAL IS MADE TO JACOB'S EXAMPLE WHICH SIMPLY SERVES TO REVEAL
ISRAEL'S PARLOUS STATE AND GUARANTEES THE COMING JUDGMENT OF
DESTRUCTION AND THE EXILE BUT IT IS WITH THE PROMISE OF FINAL
RESTORATIO...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Further reproof of Israel's
sins.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: Those who make creatures and things their confidence, put
a cheat upon their own souls, and pr...
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Hosea 12:4. _He found him in Bethel._ Christ, the angel, the mystical
angel, or the Angel the Word, as St. Clemens of Alexandria calls him:
so indeed do all the orthodox fathers. The church knows of n...
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_He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth
to oppress, etc._
FORTUNES
I. Fortunes badly used.
1. Here there is no recognition of human co-operation. No man comes in
posses...
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HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 12:2 Hosea recounts incidents from Israel’s
past in order to display the Lord’s enduring kindness and Israel’s
stubborn ingratitude.
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HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 12:5 Hosea again reminds Israel of their
spiritual heritage. MEMORIAL NAME. See Exodus 3:15. God’s choosing
of Israel is the reason Israel can now retur
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Hosea 12:7. Merchant] Marg. a Canaanite, a heathen, unlike Israel, to
whom Canaanites were a reproach (Ezekiel 16:3). OPPRESS] Lit. deceive.
Men whose trade is deceit, whose balance...
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EXPOSITION
In Hosea 12:1 God continues his complaint against Ephraim, charging
them specially with the pursuit of vain and futile courses to their
great detriment. Instead of repairing to the true and...
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Ephraim feeds on the wind, and follows after the east wind: he daily
increases lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the
Assyrians (Hsa Hosea 12:1),
They tried to escape the destructi...
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1 Timothy 6:17; 1 Timothy 6:5; Deuteronomy 8:17; Habakkuk 1:16;...
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I am rich — Whatever is said, yet I get what I aim at. They shall
find — Yet he hugs himself in the apprehension of close carriage of
his affairs, so that no great crime can be found in him: none, tha...