Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 9:13
To the murderer — He will send them forth in mighty armies; but it will be sending them out to the slaughter.
To the murderer — He will send them forth in mighty armies; but it will be sending them out to the slaughter.
Verse Hosea 9:13. _EPHRAIM, AS I SAW TYRUS_] Tyre was strongly situated on a rock in the sea; Samaria was on a mountain, both strong and pleasant. But the strength and beauty of those cities shall not...
EPHRAIM, AS I SAW TYRUS, IS PLANTED IN A PLEASANT PLACE - Or (better) “as I saw (her) toward Tyre,” or “as I saw as to Tyre.” Ephraim stretched out, in her dependent tribes, “toward” or “to” Tyre itse...
CHAPTER 9:10-11:11 RETROSPECT, ISRAEL'S FAILURE AND RUIN _ 1. Israel once beloved, now fugitive wanderers (Hosea 9:10) _ 2. Their guilt and punishment (Hosea 10:1) 3. Exhortation and rebuke (Hosea...
THE NEMESIS OF AN IMPURE WORSHIP (_cf. Hosea 4:11_). Israel in unspoilt youth had appeared to Yahweh like grapes in the wilderness, but at the very first of the Canaanite shrines which they reached, B...
AS. SAW TYRUS. Another contrast. See note on Hosea 9:8. The verse does not "defy explanation". AS. according as. TYRUS. See Isaiah 23.Ezekiel 26; Ezekiel 2
_ISRAEL'S GLORY FLEW AWAY -- HOSEA 9:11-14_ : The glory of Israel would fly away like a bird. They would no longer be a growing and productive nation. Their women would no longer be able to give birth...
EPHRAIM, &C.— Some render these words, _Ephraim was as if I should look upon Tyre, planted in a fair place: but,_ &c. Houbigant reads, _That Ephraim, which, when I looked upon him, was as a rock plant...
REPROVINGISRAEL FOLLOWED BAAL TEXT: Hosea 9:10-17 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-figs in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-pe...
Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. EPHRAIM, AS I SAW TYRUS, IS PLANTED IN A PLEASANT PLACE - i:e., in looking towar...
9:13 planted (d-9) Or 'as I see him, as far as Tyre, was planted.' place; (e-13) A 'pasturage' or 'habitation.'...
EXILE IS AT HAND This prophecy appears to have been written in a time of rejoicing over a good harvest and vintage. Israel need not rejoice, says the prophet, with the wild joy of the heathen. Their...
AS I SAW TYRUS] i.e. like Tyre. PLEASANT PLACE] perhaps FOLD, as in Jeremiah 23:3, the reference being to security rather than natural beauty. 14. The prophet here appeals to God's justice to carry ou...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 9 HOSEA TELLS ISRAEL THAT GOD WILL PUNISH HER V1 People of Israel, do not be happy. Do not shout for joy like the other nations...
The LXX. suggest a doubt as to the validity of our text. They render “Ephraim, even as I saw, gave their children for a prey.” The reference to Tyre is very obscure. Some would render the Hebrew word...
אֶפְרַ֛יִם כַּ אֲשֶׁר ־רָאִ֥יתִי לְ צֹ֖ור שְׁ
4. "THE CORRUPTION THAT IS THROUGH LUST" Hosea 9:10 CF. Hosea 4:11 Those who at the present time are enforcing among us the revival of a paganism-without the pagan conscience-and exalting licentiousn...
“WANDERERS AMONG THE NATIONS” Hosea 9:10-17 At the Exodus the love and thanks of Israel were as delightful to God as grapes in the desert or as the first ripe figs. But they gave themselves up to th...
The judgment was then described in detail. Its first note was of the death of joy. Israel could not find her joy like other peoples. She had gone whoring from God, loving hire on every threshing floor...
Ephraim, as I saw (o) Tyrus, [is] planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. (o) As they kept tender plants in their houses in Tyrus to preserve them fro...
_Tyre. The kingdom of Israel was no less proud, Ezechiel xxvi. (Worthington) --- It was in the highest prosperity under Jeroboam II. Osee saw this and the subsequent overthrow. Tyre was a most populou...
Reader! do not fail still to pursue the subject with an eye to the Lord's grace, for the whole Chapter is full of it. The Lord, to whose comprehensive view, all things past, present, and future, form...
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...
XII. HOSEA 9:7 (NASB) THE DAYS OF PUNISHMENT HAVE COME, THE DAYS OF RETRIBUTION HAVE COME; LET ISRAEL KNOW [THIS]! THE PROPHET IS A FOOL, THE INSPIRED MAN IS DEMENTED, BECAUSE OF THE GROSSNESS OF YOUR...
Hosea here confirms his previous statements that the Israelites in vain trusted in their present condition, for the Lord could reverse their prosperity whenever it pleased him. Men, we know, harden th...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9, 10, AND 11. In CHAPTER 9 we have here that touching mixture of affection and judgment which we find again and again in this prophet. Ephraim should not rem...
EPHRAIM, AS I SAW TYRUS, [IS] PLANTED IN A PLEASANT PLACE,.... That is, either as the city of Tyre, a very famous city in Phoenicia, was situated in a very pleasant place by the sea, and abounded in w...
Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, [is] planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. Ver. 13. _Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place_] And therefor...
_As for Ephraim_, or, _Ephraim! their glory shall fly away like a bird_ What they make their boast of so much shall depart from them. The fruitfulness of their women seems to be the thing here spoken...
Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus (is) planted in a pleasant place, that is, the Lord had intended for it the growth, wealth, and power of the mighty Phoenician city; BUT EPHRAIM SHALL BRING FORTH HIS CHILDREN...
THE CORRUPTION OF ISRAEL AND ITS CONSEQUENCES...
11-17. God departs from a people, or from a person, when he withdraws his goodness and mercy from them; and when the Lord is departed, what can the creature do? Even though, for the present, good thi...
EPHRAIM; the kingdom of Israel. TYRUS; of which see EZE 26 $ Eze 27$ EZE 28 $; a very rich, well-fortified, and pleasant city, and secure too, that afterward held out thirteen years siege against all...
Hosea 9:13 saw H7200 (H8804) Ephraim H669 Tyre H6865 planted H8362 (H8803) place H5116 Ephraim H669 out...
‘Ephraim, like Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place. But Ephraim will bring out his children to the slayer.' Like Tyre (le tsor), Ephraim are planted in a pleasant place. If the reference to ‘like Tyr...
EPHRAIM'S FUTURE IS BLEAK (HOSEA 9:11). As a result of their sinfulness Ephraim's future is depicted as being very bleak. Their wealth and prosperity (their ‘glory' - compare Isaiah 17:3) will fly awa...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Israel's coming distress because of sin. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Joy is a forbidden fruit to those who have broken covenant with God, until they return...
Hosea 9:1. _Rejoice not, oh Israel,_ with the shouts of harvest, and the songs of the vintage, as all heathen nations have done, and have ascribed their harvests to their idols; for God was about to d...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 9:11. THEIR GLORY] Children the glory of parents, sterility a reproach. EPH.]= fruitfulness (Genesis 41:52, marg), which characteristic should cease; licentious worship would di...
EXPOSITION HOSEA 9:1 Contain a warning against security arising from temporary prosperity. HOSEA 9:1 REJOICE NOT, O ISRAEL, FOR JOY, AS OTHER PEOPLE. The occasion on which the prophet penned this s...
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have gone a whoring from your God, you have loved a reward upon every cornfloor. The floor in the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wi...
2 Kings 15:16; Amos 7:17; Ezekiel 28:26; Hosea 10:14; Hosea 13:16;...