Israel signed his own death-warrant when he lapsed into Baal-worship. Foolish as it is to -kiss calves", they persist in the practice. Therefore the nation can but drift away, like cloud, or chaff, or smoke. How little Jehovah deserves such treatment! But Israel's destruction has already begun: they shall be torn piecemeal.
CHAPTER XIII _Thus chapter begins with observing that the fear of God leads_ _to prosperity, but sin to ruin; a truth most visibly_ _exemplified in the sin and punishment of Ephraim_, 1-3. _As an...
WHEN EPHRAIM SPAKE TREMBLING - that is, probably “there was ‘trembling.’” : “Ephraim was once very awful, so as, while he spake, the rest of the tribes were ready to tremble.” The prophet contrasts tw...
CHAPTER 13 EPHRAIM'S RUIN AND JUDGMENT _ 1. Ruin and judgment (Hosea 13:1) _ 2. It is thy destruction, O Israel! (Hosea 13:9) 3. Mercy to follow wrath (Hosea 13:12) 4. The desolation of the nearin...
HOSEA 13:1 (= Heb. Hosea 13:1 to Hosea 14:1). FACILIS DESCENSUS AVERNO. Israel has persistently lapsed into the Baal-worship and idolatry, and therefore shall be swept away as the chaff ...
SPAKE TREMBLING. spake (authoritatively) [there was] attention; as in Joshua's clays (Joshua 4:14). Compare Job 29:21. TREMBLING. panic. Hebrew. _r_ etheth. Occurs only here. Similar to _retet,_ which...
_ISRAEL SINNED MORE AND MORE -- HOSEA 13:1-4:_ There was a time when the leaders in Israel spoke for God and the people showed great respect for Him. As long as Israel had respect for God she enjoyed...
WHEN EPHRAIM SPAKE, TREMBLING— _When Ephraim promulged his edicts,_ or _first became a kingdom._ Houbigant. It may be otherwise understood, that when he behaved himself with dutiful submission and obe...
REQUITINGGOD WILL PUNISH TEXT: Hosea 13:1-8 1 When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died, 2 And now they sin more and more, and ha...
When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died. This chapter and Hosea 14:1 probably belong to the troubled times that followed Pekah's murder by...
WHEN.. TREMBLING] RV 'When Ephraim spake, there was trembling.' Ephraim was a strong and powerful tribe, which could command obedience, as especially in the days of Joshua. HE DIED] Baal-worship was t...
ISRAEL'S IDOLATRY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES The main thought of this c., which is a continuation of the last (cp. Hosea 12:9; Hosea 13:4), is the folly of Israel incurring the enmity of God, who had shown...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 13 FINAL *JUDGEMENT ON ISRAEL V1 *Ephraim made himself very important in Israel. *Ephraim spoke and people shook with fear....
XIII. (1) There is a difference of opinion as to the construction and rendering of this verse. We adopt the interpretation, _When Ephraim uttered terror, he rebelled in Israel; then he committed sin t...
כְּ דַבֵּ֤ר אֶפְרַ֨יִם֙ רְתֵ֔ת נָשָׂ֥א ה֖וּא...
THE FINAL ARGUMENT Hosea 12:1 - Hosea 14:1 THE impassioned call with which the last chapter closed was by no means an assurance of salvation: "How am I to give thee, up, Ephraim? how am I to let thee...
TO OPPOSE GOD IS DESTRUCTION Hosea 13:1-14 Again, a very tender chapter. The lips that speak with trembling betray the heart that God can exalt. But when we turn to Baal, the emblem of self-confiden...
In the second movement Jehovah set the present sin in the light of His present love. The sin of Ephraim and the sin of Judah, if the marginal reading be adopted, are both declared. The sin of Ephraim...
Turning from this main line of the divine message, we now examine the prophet's interpolations. These set forth the history of Israel indicating their relation to Jehovah, and pronounce judgment. They...
When Ephraim spake (a) trembling, he (b) exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, (c) he died. (a) He shows the excellency and authority that this tribe had above all the rest. (b) H...
_Spoke. When Jeroboam proposed to erect the golden calves, people were seized with horror; yet they consented, and soon after Baal and other idols were worshipped. (Worthington) --- Ephraim was one of...
CONTENTS Ephraim is still under reproof in this Chapter. But grace still triumphs in the Lord's victory for Ephraim, over death, hell, and the grave....
Here is a striking representation made in the character of Ephraim, and which suits all backsliders like Ephraim. First, departures are made with trembling: After falls are in more confidence. Hence t...
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...
Interpreters agree not in their view of this verse. Some say that trembling was excited in Israel when Ephraim, that is, Jeroboam, who was born of that tribe, exhorted the people to worship the calves...
Chapter 13 is the perpetual conflict of the affections and the judgment of God. The thought of their sin calls forth the announcement of the necessary and inevitable judgment. As soon as the judgment...
WHEN EPHRAIM SPAKE TREMBLING, HE EXALTED HIMSELF IN ISRAEL,.... Or, with trembling, as Jarchi: so Jeroboam, who was of the tribe of Ephraim, spake before Solomon, a great king, as he observes. R. Mose...
When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died. Ver. 1. _When Ephraim spake trembling_] Or, there was trembling, as there is among the beasts of the...
_When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself_ While he behaved himself submissively and obediently, and humbled himself before God, he was reckoned among the principal tribes of Israel. Here Ephr...
When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel, rather, "When Ephraim," as the mightiest of the northern tribes, "spoke, there was trembling"; for the other tribes were so much weaker that...
GOD'S BENEFITS SCORNED BY ISRAEL...
1-8 While Ephraim kept up a holy fear of God, and worshipped Him in that fear, so long he was very considerable. When Ephraim forsook God, and followed idolatry, he sunk. Let the men that sacrifice k...
HOSEA CHAPTER 13 Ephraim's glory vanisheth by reason of idolatry, HOSEA 13:1. God's former care of his people: for their abuse of his benefits he will destroy them, HOSEA 13:4. A promise of mercy and...
Hosea 13:1 Ephraim H669 spoke H1696 (H8763) trembling H7578 exalted H5375 (H8804) Israel H3478 offended H816 ...
BECAUSE EPHRAIM HAVE OFFENDED SO DEEPLY, AND HAVE REJECTED THEIR DELIVERER, JUDGMENT UPON THEM IS INEVITABLE (HOSEA 13:1). The crimes of Israel are again laid bear. They are guilty of idolatry (Hosea...
‘When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling, He exalted himself in Israel, But when he offended in Baal, He died. In a play on the use of the term Ephraim which can signify 1) Joseph's Song of Solomon...
Hosea 13:1. _When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel;_ When we are little in our own esteem, when we are full of fears concerning ourselves, when we dare not think of boasting, the...
Hosea was full of complaints against the people of God; for, in his day, they had very sadly wandered from the Lord. They had even forgotten him. In Hosea's prophecy, we have the plaintive voice of a...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Israel's ruin. Ultimate blessing in the kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Worldly prosperity, which feeds men's pride, makes them forgetful of God, a...
Hosea 13:2. _Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves._ The readings vary here. The LXX, “You must sacrifice men, for there are no more calves.” The Vulgate Latin reads, “Sacrifice the men that wors...
_When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died._ TWO CONDITIONS OF EPHRAIM “Spake trembling,” _i.e._, there was trembling. “Ephraim was once very a...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 13:1 The man-made gods that Israel worships are nothing compared to their actual God, who is living, active, and true to his word. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.] HOSEA 13:1. EPH.] formerly enjoyed great distinction in Israel. Men listened with fear and trembling to him (Job 29:21); he exalted himself, secured the rule among the tribes, and the...
EXPOSITION The first eight verses of this chapter form the premises from which the prophet, in the ninth verse, draws the conclusion that the conduct of Israel had been suicidal; that they had brought...
Now when Ephraim was speaking trembling (Hsa Hosea 13:1), That is, when Ephraim was not proud and exalted, but recognized their own weakness and all, then the LORD exalted himself in Israel; but whe...
1 Kings 12:25; 1 Kings 16:29; 1 Kings 18:18; 1 Kings 18:19;...
Ephraim — The ten tribes, of which Ephraim was the chief. Spake trembling — Humbled himself before God. Exalted himself — The kingdom flourished. When he offended — So soon as they sinned, taking Baal...