Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 8:14
Temples — Idol temples. Devour the palaces — This was fulfilled when all the cities of Judah and Israel were laid in ashes by the king of Assyria.
Temples — Idol temples. Devour the palaces — This was fulfilled when all the cities of Judah and Israel were laid in ashes by the king of Assyria.
Verse Hosea 8:14. _ISRAEL HATH FORGOTTEN HIS MAKER_] And therefore built _temples_ to other gods. _Judah_ had lost all confidence in the Divine protection, and therefore built many fenced cities. But...
FOR ISRAEL HATH FORGOTTEN HIS MAKER - God was his Maker, not only as the Creator of all things, but as the Author of his existence as a people, as He saith, “hath he not made thee, and established the...
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...
FORGOTTEN HIS MAKER. Ref to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:18). BUILDETH TEMPLES. Compare 1 Kings 12:31, and 2 Chronicles 24:7 with...
A fresh reason for the -swallowing up" of which the prophet has spoken (Hosea 8:8) Israel's worldliness and self-dependence. _buildeth temples_ It seems doubtful however whether Hosea would have laid...
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....
_ISRAEL HAD FORGOTTEN HER MAKER -- HOSEA 8:12-14:_ Israel could not claim ignorance as a reason for her failure to obey God. His "instructions for sacrifices were written in detail, but you ignored th...
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...
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. FOR ISRAEL HATH...
8:14 temples; (g-9) Or 'palaces.'...
TEMPLES] RV 'palaces.' The building of fenced cities by Israel and Judah implied a want of faith in God's power to save....
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...
TEMPLES. — The word here used for temple is used sixty times for Jehovah’s temple. The building of these temple-palaces was a distinct sin against the unity of the Godhead. JUDAH HATH MULTIPLIED FENCE...
וַ יִּשְׁכַּ֨ח יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל אֶת ־עֹשֵׂ֗הוּ וַ...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
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...
_Temples, or "palaces." (Calmet) --- Cities. The two tribes, witnessing the calamities of their brethren, will not avoid a similar conduct, but trust in their fortifications. (Worthington) --- Fire of...
REFLECTIONS READER! Was there ever a period in the Church of Christ, when those that are divinely inspired, and called to the office of ambassadors for Jesus, needed to set the trumpet more powerfully...
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......
Here the Prophet concludes his foregoing observations. It is indeed probable that he preached them at various times; but, as I have already said, the heads of the sermons which the Prophet delivered a...
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...
FOR ISRAEL HATH FORGOTTEN HIS MAKER,.... The Creator and Preserver of everyone of them, and who had raised them up to a state and kingdom, and had made them great and rich, and populous, and bestowed...
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. Ver. 14. _For Isra...
_For Israel hath forgotten his Maker_ Hath forgotten him who formed them into a people, preserved and advanced them, and conferred on them all those privileges wherein they excelled all other nations:...
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, Cf Deuteronomy 32:18, AND BUILDETH TEMPLES, either palaces or idol-temples; AND JUDAH HATH MULTIPLIED FENCED CITIES, in a false reliance upon his own strength. BUT...
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...
ISRAEL; the ten revolted idolatrous tribes. HATH FORGOTTEN; the same with HOSEA 2:5, which see; or HOSEA 4:1,6. Either remembers not at all, or it is without love, thankfulness, and consideration what...
Hosea 8:14 Israel H3478 forgotten H7911 (H8799) Maker H6213 (H8802) built H1129 (H8799) temples H1964 Judah...
For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and built palaces, And Judah has multiplied fortified cities, But I will send a fire on his cities, And it will devour its castles.' And all this was because Isr...
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...
Hosea 8:14 I. Consider the statements of the text in their primary reference to Israel and Judah, showing their application in spirit to ourselves. (1) Those whom God originally called to be one, whom...
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...
_For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities._ NEITHER THE RELIGION NOR SECURITY OF A NATION TO BE JUDGED BY APPEARANCES The temples are the id...
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 8:14. FORGOTTEN] Deuteronomy 32:18. Israel reared idol temples: Judah increased fortified cities; the sin of both, forgetfulness of God and deification of self as displayed in 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...
1 Kings 12:31; 1 Kings 16:31; 2 Chronicles 26:10; 2 Chronicles 27:4;...