Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 11:6
His branches — The lesser towns and villages. Their own counsels — Which they have followed in opposition to all the good counsels the prophets gave them from time to time.
His branches — The lesser towns and villages. Their own counsels — Which they have followed in opposition to all the good counsels the prophets gave them from time to time.
Verse Hosea 11:6. _THE SWORD SHALL ABIDE ON HIS CITIES_] Israel was agitated with external and intestine wars from the time of _Jeroboam the Second_. Although _Zechariah_ his son reigned _twelve_ yea...
AND THE SWORD SHALL ABIDE ON HIS CITIES - Literally, “shall light, shall whirl” down upon. It shall come with violence upon them as a thing whirled with force, and then it shall alight and abide, to t...
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 DIVINE FATHER'S LOVE FOR ISRAEL. In Israel's youth Yahweh loved him, and called him from Egypt to be His son, but he proved disloyal, sacrificing to the Baalim (Hosea 11:1 f.). Yet it was Yahweh w...
BRANCHES. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), App-6, for "sons", as being the progeny and defenders....
_And the sword_, &c. Rather, AND THE SWORD SHALL WHIRL ABOUT IN HIS CITIES, AND SHALL MAKE AN END OF HIS DEFENCES (lit. his bars; comp. Jeremiah 51:30). The sword is personified as the symbol of war,...
_DRAWN WITH CORDS OF LOVE -- HOSEA 11:4-6:_ God was kind and merciful to His people. He led them with kindness and with love. He "drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love." God did not lead t...
RECOGNIZING GOD'S COMPASSION REMONSTRATING TEXT: Hosea 11:1-9 1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. 2 The more the prophets called them, the more they went...
And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels. AND THE SWORD SHALL ABIDE ON HIS CITIES - (cf. "The sword shall never depart...
11:6 bars, (e-14) Or 'branches.'...
THE INGRATITUDE OF ISRAEL Jehovah had been like a tender father and a kind master to Israel from the first, yet had they ever rejected Him and turned to idols. He cannot bear the thought of punishing...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 11 ISRAEL HAS FORGOTTEN THE *LORD V1 ‘I, (the *Lord), loved Israel when he was a child. I called my son out of Egypt....
The rendering of the English version is here incorrect. Render, _Then shall the sword be brandished amid his cities, and utterly destroy his princes._ The word for “princes” is, literally, _bars,_ the...
וְ חָלָ֥ה חֶ֨רֶב֙ בְּ עָרָ֔יו וְ כִלְּתָ֥ה
THE FATHERHOOD AND HUMANITY OF GOD Hosea 11:1 FROM the thick jungle of Hosea's travail, the eleventh chapter breaks like a high and open mound. The prophet enjoys the first of his two clear visions-...
“BANDS OF LOVE” Hosea 11:1-11 This is a very tender chapter, full of moving appeals. God looks back on the happy, blessed past, as a fond parent on the innocent childhood of a son who is now causing...
The third cycle of the prophecy sets forth the love which Jehovah had for His people, notwithstanding their sin. This section sets forth Jehovah's love toward His sinning people, and, for the most par...
_Heads. Hebrew, "counsellors." Civil war desolated the kingdom, and made way for the Assyrians. Septuagint, "they are devoured on account of their projects." (Calmet) --- They are at a loss what to do...
We have here the sad account of Israel's requital of the Lord's kindness. In which Reader, we shall as sadly mistake the subject if we overlook in Israel's history our own. As Israel threatened to ret...
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...
As it was difficult to persuade proud people that the overthrow was at hand, which Hosea had foretold, seeing, as they did, that they were furnished with many defences, it is therefore now added, that...
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...
AND THE SWORD SHALL ABIDE ON THE CITIES,.... Or "shall fall" y, and continue; meaning the sword of the Assyrians, whereby Ephraim should be brought into subjection to them, and the king of Assyria bec...
And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour [them], because of their own counsels. Ver. 6. _And the sword shall abide on his cities_] Heb. shall keep residence...
_He shall not return into the land of Egypt_ They were desirous of making their escape thither, and many families perhaps effected it: see note on Hosea 9:6. But it is here threatened, that the nation...
THE PROOF OF JEHOVAH'S LOVE...
And the sword shall abide on his cities, making the rounds in a campaign of destruction, AND SHALL CONSUME HIS BRANCHES, destroying their bars or defenses, AND DEVOUR THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN COUNSEL...
1-7 When Israel were weak and helpless as children, foolish and froward as children, then God loved them; he bore them as the nurse does the sucking child, nourished them, and suffered their manners....
THE SWORD; either intestine or foreign wars, or both. Shall abide; shall be long, not be as a sudden incursion which doth much mischief to surprised and unfortified places, but it shall be a lasting w...
Hosea 11:6 sword H2719 slash H2342 (H8804) cities H5892 Devour H3615 (H8765) districts H905 consume H398 ...
And the sword will fall on their cities, And will consume their bars, And devour, Because of their own counsels.' So because of their refusal to respond wholly to Him the sword would fall on their...
YHWH DESCRIBES HOW HE HAD CALLED HIS SON (ISRAEL) OUT OF EGYPT AND WATCHED OVER HIM AS A FAITHFUL FATHER, TRAINING HIM IN THE RIGHT WAY, ONLY FOR HIS SON'S HEART TO REMAIN IN EGYPT SO THAT HE WOULD IN...
Hosea 11:1. _When Israel was a child,_ When the nation was yet young, and had scarcely started on its march among the peoples of the earth: «When Israel was a child,» Hosea 11:1. _Then I loved him,...
Hosea 11:1. _When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt._ God remembers what he did for us when we were young; and sin against him is much aggravated by his long kindne...
Hosea 11:1. _When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt._ God's love was very early love. He began with the nation of Israel when it was a mere handful of men in Egypt....
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. His tender love for Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Though men who have had relationship with God are ripe for ruin because of following their own couns...
Hosea 11:1. _When Israel was a child I loved him._ I led Joseph like a flock, by the hands of Moses and Aaron. I protected him among the kings of Canaan. I fed and multiplied him in Egypt; and when th...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 11:5 THEY SHALL NOT RETURN... BUT ASSYRIA. An alliance with Egypt will not save them from Assyria. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES. HOSEA 11:5. SHALL NOT] An apparent contradiction to Hosea 8:13; Hosea 9:3; but Egypt there is a type of bondage, here the hope of relief against Assyria. They would no longer go to Egy...
EXPOSITION In Hosea 11:1 Jehovah enumerates the benefits conferred on Israel all along from the time of their departure out of Egypt. But parallel with this enumeration runs the history of Israel's i...
God continues His lament and all. He said, When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt (Hsa Hosea 11:1). Now, this verse has been used in Matthew's gospel as a prophecy...
Deuteronomy 28:52; Deuteronomy 32:25; Ezekiel 15:2; Ezekiel 20:47;...
A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF HOSEA Hosea 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As introductory to our study of the Book of Hosea, we propose to show how God wrote His messages in Hosea, as well as by him. There is a ver...