Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 8:6
From Israel — By their invention. It — Both the idol and the worshippers of it.
From Israel — By their invention. It — Both the idol and the worshippers of it.
Verse Hosea 8:6. _THE WORKMAN MADE IT; THEREFORE IT_ IS _NOT GOD_] As God signifies the supreme eternal Good, the Creator and Upholder of all things, therefore the workman cannot make Him who made all...
FOR - This verse may assign the reasons of God’s displeasure, “mine anger is kindled;” or of Israel’s impenitency, “How long will it be?” This indeed is only going a little further back, for Israel’s...
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...
FOR FROM ISRAEL, &C. Render: "For from Israel! (i.e. from Israel, of all people) [doth this conduct proceed! and he! (i.e., and that calf, what is it)]?. craftsman made him, so no God is he". BE. bec...
_For from Israel was it also_ Rather, WAS THIS ALSO; i. e. this idol too (as well as the usurping kings) was Israel's work, unsanctioned by me. But the construction is very dubious, and the integrity...
_ISRAEL SOWED THE WIND -- HOSEA 8:5-7:_ Israel was the name of the nation. Ephraim was the larger tribe in the Northern Kingdom. Samaria was the city that was the capital of the Northern Kingdom. God...
THY CALF, O SAMARIA— Houbigant reads these verses thus: _Mine anger is kindled against them: when will they attain to innocency? Thy calf, O Samaria, shall be cast off: It had Israel for its founder:...
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...
For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. FOR FROM ISRAEL WAS IT ALSO - namely, the calf originated with them, n...
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...
FROM ISRAEL] The idol was the mere creation of Israel. THEREFORE.. GOD] RV 'and it is no God.' It has no real existence: cp. 1 Corinthians 8:4....
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...
It is best to abandon the Masoretic punctuation, and translate, _For it_ (_i.e.,_ the calf) _is from Israel_ (not of Divine origin); _as for it, an artificer made it, and it is no god. Yea, the calf o...
כִּ֤י מִ יִּשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְ ה֔וּא חָרָ֣שׁ עָשָׂ֔
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...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
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...
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...
(e) For from Israel [was] it also: the workman made it; therefore it [is] not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. (e) Meaning the calf was invented by themselves, and by their fat...
Israel. This enhances the crime. Can a people so highly favoured adore the work of an artist? --- Webs, such as appear on a fine day in autumn. St. Jerome's master suggested that this was the sense. I...
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 beginning of this verse is not rightly explained, as I think, by those who so connect the pronoun demonstrative הוא, _eva, _as if it had an interposed copulative; and this ought to be noticed, for...
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 FROM ISRAEL [WAS] IT ALSO,.... That is, the calf was from Israel; it was an invention of theirs, as some say; they did not borrow it from their neighbours, as they did other idols, but it was thei...
For from Israel [was] it also: the workman made it; therefore it [is] not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. Ver. 6. _For from Israel was it also_] There is an emphasis in "also,...
_Thy calf, O Samaria_ Here God himself, who is the speaker, turns short upon Samaria, or the ten tribes; and, in a tone of dreadful indignation, upbraids their corrupt worship. _Hath cast thee off_ Th...
For from Israel was it also, that is, this calf originated from men; THE WORKMAN MADE IT, THEREFORE IT IS NOT GOD. BUT THE CALF OF SAMARIA SHALL BE BROKEN IN PIECES, smashed into tiny fragments. This...
THE JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
5-10 They promised themselves plenty, peace, and victory, by worshipping idols, but their expectations came to nothing. What they sow has no stalk, no blade, or, if it have, the bud shall yield no fr...
FOR, or because, FROM ISRAEL, by their invention and authority, was it also, both the idol and the worship of it. THE WORKMAN, the founder, silversmith, or goldsmith, MADE IT; fashioned the calf. THER...
Hosea 8:6 Israel H3478 workman H2796 made H6213 (H8804) God H430 calf H5695 Samaria H8111 pieces H7616 from -
‘He has cast off (is disgusted at) your calf, O Samaria, My anger is kindled against them, How long will it be before they attain to innocency? For from Israel is even this, The workman made it, a...
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...
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...
_The workman made it; therefore it is not God._ THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY Humanitarianism has become the creed of the earnest and thoughtful who have found for themselves the awful truth regarding the...
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 8:5 I HAVE SPURNED YOUR CALF, O SAMARIA. These verses respond to v. Hosea 8:3, “Israel has spurned the good.” As the calf-idol in Aaron’s day was pulverized, s
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 8:6. FOR] The reason of displeasure. IT ALSO] The calf as well as the kings set up, made by Israel, not by God. It deserved not their homage, no creature can be God; idol worsh...
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...
2 Chronicles 31:1; 2 Chronicles 34:6; 2 Chronicles 34:7; 2 Kings 23:15;...