Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 8:4
They — Israel. Kings — Shallum, Menahem, Pekah, and Hosea. Not by me — Not by my direction. Knew it not — Did not approve of it.
They — Israel. Kings — Shallum, Menahem, Pekah, and Hosea. Not by me — Not by my direction. Knew it not — Did not approve of it.
Verse Hosea 8:4. _THEY HAVE SET UP KINGS, BUT NOT BY ME_] Properly speaking, not one of the kings of Israel, from the defection of the ten tribes from the house of David, was the _anointed_ of the Lor...
THEY HAVE SET UP KINGS, BUT NOT BY ME - God Himself foretold to Jeroboam by Ahijah the prophet, that He would “rend the kingdom out of the hands of Solomon, and give ten tribes” to him, “and” would “t...
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...
THEY HAVE SET UP KINGS. Compare Hosea 7:7. See 2 Kings 15:13 2 Kings 15:17, 2 Kings 15:27 (Shallum, Menahem, Pekah). MADE PRINCES. caus
Israel's great offence making a schism in the -theocratic" community. Setting up idols was virtually rebellion against Jehovah; whatever Ahijah said (1 Kings 11:31, &c.), or a lower class of prophets...
_ISRAEL BROKE GOD'S COVENANT -- HOSEA 8:1-4:_ Hosea eight begins with God, Israel and the Assyrians. Israel had broken her covenant with God and ignored His teaching. Now it was time to sound the warn...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDETHE LORD'S LAMENT TEXT: Hosea 8:1-7 1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. As an eagle he cometh against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespasse...
They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. THEY HAVE SET UP KINGS, BUT NOT...
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...
SET UP KINGS. — It is possible that the prophet alludes to the history of the northern kingdom as a whole. Though the revolt of the Ten Tribes received Divine sanction (1 Kings 11:9), it was obviously...
הֵ֤ם הִמְלִיכוּ֙ וְ לֹ֣א מִמֶּ֔נִּי הֵשִׂ֖ירוּ...
1. THE CONFUSION OF THE NATION Hosea 7:8; Hosea 8:1 Hosea begins by summing up the public aspect of Israel in two epigrams, short but of marvelous adequacy:-Hosea 7:8 "Ephraim-among the nations he...
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...
They have set up (c) kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew [it] not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. (c) That is, Jeroboam, by w...
They. Jeroboam and Jehu were assured by the prophets that they should reign, yet this was not a sanction of their right. God condemned their ambition and wicked conduct. The successors of Zarharias ha...
The Chapter opens with a command to someone, and it should seem most likely to be to the Prophet, to cry aloud, in a way of reproof and expostulation. The expression is not unlike that command to Isai...
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 notices two things, with respect to which he reprobates the perfidy and impious perverseness of the people, — they had, against the will of God, framed a religion for themselves, — an...
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...
THEY HAVE SET UP KINGS, BUT NOT BY ME,.... Not by his authority, order, and command; not by asking advice of him, or his leave, but of themselves, and of their own, accord: this refers to the case of...
They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew [it] not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. Ver. 4. _They have set up kings...
_Israel shall cry unto me_ Namely, when calamities come upon them, _My God, we know thee_ Thou art our God in covenant with us, and we make profession of thy name, and own thee for the only true God:...
They have set up kings, but not by Me, not by His direction nor with His consent; THEY HAVE MADE PRINCES, AND I KNEW IT NOT, for even in the case of Jeroboam and Jehu the manner of their accession did...
THE JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
1-4 When Israel was hard pressed, they would claim protection from God, but this would be disregarded. What stead will it stand in to say, My God, I know thee, if we cannot say, My God, I love thee, s...
THEY; Israel, the prevailing faction among them in Hosea's time. HAVE SET UP KINGS; Shallum, Menahem, Pekah, and Hoshea, who usurped the throne. BUT NOT BY ME; not by my direction, or with my approbat...
Hosea 8:4 kings H4427 (H8689) princes H7786 (H8689) acknowledge H3045 (H8804) silver H3701 gold H2091 made...
ISRAEL HAVE LAID FALSE FOUNDATIONS IN KINGSHIP AND RELIGION, AND YHWH, DESPAIRING OF THERE BEING ANY LIKELIHOOD OF THEIR BECOMING PURE, WILL IN ANGER BOTH DESTROY ‘THE CALF OF SAMARIA' AND MINIMISE TH...
‘They have set up kings, but not by me, They have made princes, and I knew it not, Of their silver and their gold they have made idols for themselves, That they may be cut off.' YHWH's first compla...
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...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 8:1 The people of Israel may claim to know and love the Lord, but their deeds prove otherwise. ⇐ ⇔
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 8:4 KINGS... PRINCES. The leaders are not the Lord’s choice, and these rulers are not godly. I KNEW IT NOT. The people had never asked God for guidance before choosing these leader...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 8:2. WE] Heb. joins Israel with the last clause, “_We know thee, we Israel_,” a plea of descent to move God to mercy; but hypocrisy, the cry of fear and not love. Dead knowledg...
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 12:16; 1 Kings 12:28; 1 Kings 13:34; 1 Kings 16:31;...