Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 8:11
Altars — Those which they shall find in Assyria. To sin — Shall be the occasion of his greater guilt and punishment.
Altars — Those which they shall find in Assyria. To sin — Shall be the occasion of his greater guilt and punishment.
Verse Hosea 8:11. _MANY ALTARS TO SIN_] Though it does not appear that the Jews in Babylon were obliged to worship the idols of the country, except in the case mentioned by Daniel, yet it was far oth...
BECAUSE EPHRAIM HATH MADE MANY ALTARS TO SIN, ALTARS SHALL INDEED BE UNTO HIM TO SIN - that is, they shall be proved to him to be so, by the punishment which they shall draw upon him. The prophet had...
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)...
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...
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....
_Because_ Rather, FOR. It is a justification of the foregoing threat. _hath made many altars to sin_ In times of national trouble, sacrifices were multiplied, to propitiate the national God (comp. Isa...
_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...
BECAUSE EPHRAIM HATH MADE, &C.— This verse may be thus paraphrased: "Since Ephraim, forsaking God, and that one altar, at which alone he required them to serve him, idolatrously multiplied altars to t...
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...
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. BECAUSE EPHRIAM HATH MADE MANY ALTARS TO SIN, ALTARS SHALL BE UNTO HIM TO SIN. God, in righteous retribution, gives t...
8:11 sin. (f-14) Or 'for sin,' or 'for sinning.'...
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...
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...
MANY ALTARS. — Multiplication of altars was condemned in the law (Deuteronomy 12:5 _seq._). The narrative in Joshua 22 shows that unity of altar and sanctuary was essential to the unity of the nation....
כִּֽי ־הִרְבָּ֥ה אֶפְרַ֛יִם מִזְבְּחֹ֖ת לַ חֲטֹ֑א...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
XI. HOSEA 8:7 (NASB) FOR THEY SOW THE WIND, AND THEY REAP THE WHIRLWIND......
The Prophet here again inveighs against the idolatry of the people, which was, however, counted then the best religion; for the Israelites, as it has been said were become hardened in their superstiti...
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...
BECAUSE EPHRAIM HATH, MADE MANY ALTARS TO SIN,.... Not with an intention to commit sin, but to offer sacrifice for sin, and make atonement for it, as they thought; but these altars being erected for t...
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. Ver. 11. _Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin_] Because he hath multiplied altars against God's express command...
_Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin_ “Since the Israelites, forsaking that one altar at which alone God required them to serve him, idolatrously multiplied altars to themselves, altars again...
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, in practicing idolatry to such an exceptional degree, ALTARS SHALL BE UNTO HIM TO SIN, the idolatry practiced has made him guilty in the sight of God....
A FURTHER THREAT OF JUDGMENT...
11-14 It is a great sin to corrupt the worship of God, and will be charged as sin on all who do it, how plausible soever their excuses may seem to be. The Lord had caused his law to be written for th...
BECAUSE: this refers to what follows. EPHRAIM HATH MADE MANY ALTARS; multiplied either to many idols, every one having his altar, or multiplied altars in several places to the same idol. They had many...
Hosea 8:11 Ephraim H669 many H7235 (H8689) altars H4196 sin H2398 (H8800) altars H4196 sinning H2398 ...
Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, Altars have been to him for sinning.' Meanwhile they have also continued to multiply altars at which they could sin (or ‘offer a sin offering'), est...
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...
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...
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...
_Ephraim hath made many altars to sin._ PERVERSION OF WORSHIP Israel was to have only one altar. Ephraim had built a number of altars in different places. Men have perverted worship, not only by mak...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 8:1 The people of Israel may claim to know and love the Lord, but their deeds prove otherwise. ⇐ ⇔
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 8:11. MANY] Israel should only have one altar (Deuteronomy 12:3; Deuteronomy 12:5). TO SIN] Altars made by them should be the source of their punishment; they shall go where t
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 4:28; Hosea 10:1; Hosea 10:2; Hosea 10:8; Hosea 12:11;...