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Hosea 13:16

Samaria shall become desolate, suffering its punishment by being made desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God; they, the inhabitants of the capital and of the country, shall fall by the sword, as the invader proceeds on his campaign of conquest; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up, according to the unspeakably cruel methods of warfare then in use. The call of the Gospel, as we see here once more, sounded even in the midst of degenerate Israel; for it is not the desire of the Lord that any man should perish, but that all should be led to repentance.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 13:16. _SAMARIA SHALL BECOME DESOLATE_] This was the capital of the Israelitish kingdom. What follows is a simple prophetic declaration of the cruelties which should be exercised upon this...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SAMARIA SHALL BECOME DESOLATE - Or “shall bear her iniquity.” Her iniquity should now find her out, and rest upon her. Of this, “desolation” was, in God’s judgments, the consequence. Samaria, “the nur...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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 ...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SAMARIA. See 2 Kings 17:6. THEIR. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "and their"....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _become desolate_ Rather, BE DEALT WITH AS GUILTY (as Hosea 10:2). _their infants_, &c. Rather, THEIR CHILDREN (those of an age to play, comp. Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 9:20). The same barbarities were...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _SAMARIA SHALL BECOME DESOLATE -- HOSEA 13:13-16:_ The sorrows of a travailing woman at childbirth were used to describe the misery that would come upon the nation of Israel. They would go through a t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    REQUITINGISRAEL WILL PERISH TEXT: Hosea 13:9-16 9 It is thy destruction, O Israel, that thou art against me, against thy help. 10 Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities? a...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. SAMARIA S...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    13:16 (c-0) Ch. 14 in the Hebrew commences here. guilt; (d-5) Or 'become desolate.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SHALL BECOME DESOLATE] RV 'shall bear her guilt,' i.e. be punished for her sin. THEIR.. UP] Ephraim would have to bear the cruelties inflicted by a merciless foe in a barbarous age....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FRUITFUL. — Observe the play on Ephraim’s name. WIND OF THE LORD stands in apposition to _east wind._ Render _a wind of the Lord rising from the wilderness._ The armies of Assyria are referred to. BE...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Hosea 14:1]_ תֶּאְשַׁם֙ שֹֽׁמְרֹ֔ון כִּ֥י מָרְתָ֖ה בֵּֽ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “I WILL HEAL THEIR BACKSLIDING” Hosea 13:15-16; Hosea 14:1-9 The prophet here ransacks the world of nature for phrases sufficiently expressive of his transports of joy. The whole world seems laid und...

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

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS AMIDST numberless beauties which this Chapter furnisheth for the most blessed improvements under grace; methinks I would attend to what my Lord hath said concerning his ransom of his peopl...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Some have thought that it is the Lord Jesus Christ that is spoken of as fruitful among his brethren. And no doubt Christ is abundantly fruitful; as Jacob prophesied of him, as a fruitful bough whose b...

  • 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 Calvin's Bible Commentary

    This is the conclusion of the discourse: this verse has then been improperly separated from the former chapter (99); for the Prophet enters not here on a new subject, but only confirms what he had sai...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SAMARIA SHALL BECOME DESOLATE,.... With this verse the fourteenth chapter begins in the Hebrew copies, and in the Targum, and in many versions; but seems better to conclude the present chapter; since...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. Ver. 16. _S...

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

    _Samaria shall become desolate, for she hath rebelled_, &c. The prophet foretels the final destruction of Samaria, for her idolatry and other impieties, by Shalmaneser, king of Assyria. _Their infants...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-16 Israel had destroyed himself by his rebellion; but he could not save himself, his help was from the Lord only. This may well be applied to the case of spiritual redemption, from that lost state...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SAMARIA, the chief or royal city of the kingdom of Israel, SHALL BECOME DESOLATE; besieged, taken, plundered, and sacked, probably it was razed to the foundation, by the Assyrians, provoked by the tre...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 13:16 Samaria H8111 guilty H816 (H8799) rebelled H4784 (H8804) God H430 fall H5307 (H8799) sword...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Samaria will bear her guilt, For she has rebelled against her God, They will fall by the sword, Their infants will be dashed in pieces, And their women with child will be ripped up. For Samaria,...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 13:9 Ephraim, by its stubborn refusal to return to the Lord, rejects the only hope that God offers. Three figures of judgment are pronounced in these verses: the incompetent king ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] HOSEA 13:10. WHERE] thy king to save when Assyrians attack cities? Where thy judges who surround the king and help to administer right? God gave and God punished them through a king....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 15:16; 2 Kings 17:18; 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 19:9; 2 Kings 8

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