Ephraim is smitten, like a plant struck by the too direct rays of the sun, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb, by permitting their children to be killed.
Verse Hosea 9:16. _EPHRAIM IS SMITTEN_] The thing being determined, it is considered as already done. _THEIR ROOT IS DRIED UP_] They shall never more be a kingdom. And they never had any political fo...
EPHRAIM IS SMITTEN - The prophet, under the image of a tree, repeats the same sentence of God upon Israel. The word “smitten” is used of the smiting of the tree from above, especially by the visitatio...
CHAPTER 9:10-11:11 RETROSPECT, ISRAEL'S FAILURE AND RUIN _ 1. Israel once beloved, now fugitive wanderers (Hosea 9:10) _ 2. Their guilt and punishment (Hosea 10:1) 3. Exhortation and rebuke (Hosea...
THE NEMESIS OF AN IMPURE WORSHIP (_cf. Hosea 4:11_). Israel in unspoilt youth had appeared to Yahweh like grapes in the wilderness, but at the very first of the Canaanite shrines which they reached, B...
_ISRAEL DRIED UP FROM THE ROOT -- HOSEA 9:15-17_ : Some horrible idolatry must have taken place at Gilgal. Saul's disobedience seemed to start at Gilgal and maybe this was the beginning of disobedienc...
EPHRAIM IS SMITTEN— _Ephraim shall be smitten. Their root shall triumph:_ Houbigant. This may be understood as spoken in the prophetic style, wherein a future event is frequently set forth as present....
REPROVINGISRAEL FOLLOWED BAAL TEXT: Hosea 9:10-17 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-figs in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-pe...
Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb. EPHRAIM IS SMITTEN, THEIR ROOT IS DRIED UP,...
EXILE IS AT HAND This prophecy appears to have been written in a time of rejoicing over a good harvest and vintage. Israel need not rejoice, says the prophet, with the wild joy of the heathen. Their...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 9 HOSEA TELLS ISRAEL THAT GOD WILL PUNISH HER V1 People of Israel, do not be happy. Do not shout for joy like the other nations...
THEY SHALL BEAR NO FRUIT. — Ephraim, whose very name signifies fruitfulness....
הֻכָּ֣ה אֶפְרַ֔יִם שָׁרְשָׁ֥ם יָבֵ֖שׁ פְּרִ֣י _בַֽל_† ־יַעֲשׂ֑ו
4. "THE CORRUPTION THAT IS THROUGH LUST" Hosea 9:10 CF. Hosea 4:11 Those who at the present time are enforcing among us the revival of a paganism-without the pagan conscience-and exalting licentiousn...
“WANDERERS AMONG THE NATIONS” Hosea 9:10-17 At the Exodus the love and thanks of Israel were as delightful to God as grapes in the desert or as the first ripe figs. But they gave themselves up to th...
The judgment was then described in detail. Its first note was of the death of joy. Israel could not find her joy like other peoples. She had gone whoring from God, loving hire on every threshing floor...
_Dried up. They are compared to a vine, chap. x. 1. (Calmet)_...
There is the same strain in this part of the Prophet's discourse as in the former: and the whole sum and substance of the sermon, is the Lord's grace and Israel's unworthiness. But I hope the Reader 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...
XII. HOSEA 9:7 (NASB) THE DAYS OF PUNISHMENT HAVE COME, THE DAYS OF RETRIBUTION HAVE COME; LET ISRAEL KNOW [THIS]! THE PROPHET IS A FOOL, THE INSPIRED MAN IS DEMENTED, BECAUSE OF THE GROSSNESS OF YOUR...
The Prophet again threatens extreme vengeance to the Israelites. It is no wonder that the same sentence is so often repeated; for hypocrites, we know, too much flatter themselves, and are not frighten...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9, 10, AND 11. In CHAPTER 9 we have here that touching mixture of affection and judgment which we find again and again in this prophet. Ephraim should not rem...
EPHRAIM IS SMITTEN,.... The people of the ten tribes, the kingdom of Israel, who had been like a tree planted in a pleasant place, Hosea 9:13; and were in very flourishing circumstances in the times o...
_Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay [even] the beloved [fruit] of their womb._ Ver. 16. _Ephraim is smitten_] As a tre...
_All their wickedness is in Gilgal_ Gilgal is notorious, and has been so of old, for the wickedness of its inhabitants. _There I hated them There_ of old (or _therefore_) they were an abomination to m...
THE BELOVED: _ Heb._ the desires...
11-17. God departs from a people, or from a person, when he withdraws his goodness and mercy from them; and when the Lord is departed, what can the creature do? Even though, for the present, good thi...
EPHRAIM IS SMITTEN: this gives us some guess at the time of this prophecy, which was after Jeroboam's death, in whose life and reign Ephraim was as a very flourishing tree, whose roots were full of sa...
Hosea 9:16 Ephraim H669 stricken H5221 (H8717) root H8328 up H3001 (H8804) bear H6213 (H8799) fruit...
‘Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, They will bear no fruit. Yes, though they bring forth, Yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb.' Hosea closes the passage as he opened it. Ephra...
EPHRAIM'S FUTURE IS BLEAK (HOSEA 9:11). As a result of their sinfulness Ephraim's future is depicted as being very bleak. Their wealth and prosperity (their ‘glory' - compare Isaiah 17:3) will fly awa...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Israel's coming distress because of sin. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Joy is a forbidden fruit to those who have broken covenant with God, until they return...
Hosea 9:1. _Rejoice not, oh Israel,_ with the shouts of harvest, and the songs of the vintage, as all heathen nations have done, and have ascribed their harvests to their idols; for God was about to d...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 9:15. GILGAL] where they rejected God and chose a king (1 Samuel 8:7; cf. 1 Samuel 11:14). HATED] Punished their sin ...
EXPOSITION HOSEA 9:1 Contain a warning against security arising from temporary prosperity. HOSEA 9:1 REJOICE NOT, O ISRAEL, FOR JOY, AS OTHER PEOPLE. The occasion on which the prophet penned this s...
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have gone a whoring from your God, you have loved a reward upon every cornfloor. The floor in the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wi...
Ezekiel 24:21; Hosea 9:11; Isaiah 40:24; Isaiah 5:24; Job 18:16;...