Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 8:9
Gone up — Israel is like a wild ass. A wild ass — Stubborn, wild, untamed. Alone — Solitary, where is no path or tract; so they were in their captivity.
Gone up — Israel is like a wild ass. A wild ass — Stubborn, wild, untamed. Alone — Solitary, where is no path or tract; so they were in their captivity.
Verse Hosea 8:9. _THEY ARE GONE UP TO ASSYRIA_] For succour. _A WILD ASS ALONE BY HIMSELF_] Like that animal, jealous of its liberty, and suffering no rival. If we may credit _Pliny_ and others, one...
FOR THEY ARE GONE UP TO ASSYRIA - The ground of this their captivity is that wherein they placed their hope of safety. They shall be presently swallowed up; “for” they went to Asshur. The holy land be...
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...
GONE UP. Compare Hosea 5:13; Hosea 7:11. A. [as] a. wild ass. Compare Isaiah 1:3. HIRED LOVERS. paid the love-fee. Comparing idolatry to whoredom. Compare...
_gone up_ Used, like ἀναβαίνω, of going inland (-up the country"). _a wild ass alone by himself_ Rather, A WILD ASS TAKING HIS OWN WAY BY HIMSELF. The point of comparison is obstinacy. The wild ass is...
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 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...
FOR THEY ARE GONE UP TO ASSYRIA— These verses are connected with that preceding, and are thus translated by Houbigant: _Because they go to the Assyrian, though the Assyrian is nothing more than a wild...
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 they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. FOR THEY ARE GONE UP TO ASSYRIA - referring to Menahem's application for Pul's aid in establishing him, on t...
HIRED LOVERS] with reference to the tribute paid to Tiglath-pileser by Menahem (cp. Hosea 7:9), and the attempts made by others to coquet with Egypt. 10. This courting of foreign princes will be of 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...
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...
GONE UP TO ASSYRIA. — The word thus translated is elsewhere used for “going up” to the sanctuary of the Lord. (See Note on Hosea 7:11.) _Wild ass_ is the image of untamed waywardness (Job 39:5, _sea._...
כִּֽי ־הֵ֨מָּה֙ עָל֣וּ אַשּׁ֔וּר פֶּ֖רֶא בֹּודֵ֣ד...
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...
For they are gone up to Assyria, a (g) wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. (g) They never cease, but run to and fro to seek help....
_Wild ass. It is very jealous of liberty, (Job xi. 12.) and of its females, so that it prevents the young males from becoming its rivals. (Pliny, [Natural History?] viii. 30.; Solin xxx.) --- If this...
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 again the Prophet derides all the labour the people had undertaken to exempt themselves from punishment. For though hypocrites dare not openly and avowedly to fight against God, yet they seek vai...
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 THEY ARE GONE UP TO ASSYRIA,.... Or, "though they should go up to Assyria" g; to the king of Assyria, to gain his friendship, and enter into alliance with him; as, when Pal king of Assyria came ag...
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. Ver. 9. _For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself_] This was that that most moved the Lord...
For they are gone up to Assyria, their object being to gain the friendship of the powerful nation, A WILD ASS ALONE BY HIMSELF; EPHRAIM HATH HIRED LOVERS. While the wild ass, an irrational brute, shun...
A FURTHER THREAT OF JUDGMENT...
LOVERS: _ Heb._ loves...
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...
The prophet gives now an account why Israel was so impoverished, and why they should be so severely punished, why so punished of God, and why so slighted by man. THEY ARE GONE UP TO ASSYRIA; either go...
Hosea 8:9 up H5927 (H8804) Assyria H804 donkey H6501 alone H909 (H8802) Ephraim H669 hired H8566 ...
‘Israel is swallowed up. Now are they among the nations, As a vessel in which none delights. . For they are gone up to Assyria, A wild ass alone by himself, Ephraim has hired lovers.' Not only w...
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...
_A wild ass alone by himself._ THE SCRIPTURE FIGURE OF THE WILD ASS What a figure of the untamed soul which refuses the easy yoke of the blessed Redeemer. Man’s untamed spirit spurns the adorable Lor...
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 8:9. ASSY-] to gain friendship and alliance. WILD ASS] A comparison which shows their folly, not as a paramour burning in lust, but heady, obstinate, and undisciplined; outstrip...
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 Kings 15:19; Ezekiel 16:33; Ezekiel 16:34; Ezekiel 23:5; Hosea 12:1