The appeal is dismissed; Israel's piety is but superficial (comp. Hosea 6:1-4); his -knowledge of God" is not that which Jehovah expects.
hath cast off Not merely put aside out of caprice, but (as the word implies) cast off with loathing (see Hosea 8:5).
ISRAEL HAS CAST OFF THE THING THAT IS GOOD - Or (since the word means “to cast off with abhorrence” “Israel hath east off and abhorred Good,” both “Him who is Good” and “that which is good.” The word...
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)...
HOSEA 7:8 TO HOSEA 8:3. POLITICAL DECAY THE OUTWARD SIGN OF ISRAEL'S MORAL DECAY. The attempts to cure national ills and secure safety by foreign aid, instead of by turning to Yahweh, are foredoomed t...
THE THING THAT IS GOOD. the Gracious One. Compare Hosea 3:5; Hosea 14:2....
_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...
DISCOURSE: 1162 THE DANGER OF FALSE CONFIDENCE Hosea 8:2. _Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him_. THERE is not a mor...
ISRAEL HATH CAST OFF— _Israel, Israel,_ &c....
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...
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. ISRAEL. God repeats the name in opposition to their use of it (). HATH CAST OFF THE THING THAT IS GOOD. Jerome translate,...
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...
ISRAEL] Hosea answers their appeal by saying that the name is worthless without the character which God requires. 4. In the constant changes of dynasty there was no thought for the religious characte...
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...
CAST OFF. — Jehovah’s reply to Israel’s hollow repentance. The word “cast off” means a scornful loathing of what is putrescent or obscene. “The thing that is good” is the name of God, which is the sal...
זָנַ֥ח יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל טֹ֑וב אֹויֵ֖ב יִרְדְּֽפֹו׃...
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
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...
_Him. Septuagint, "they have pursued the enemy." But the former sense is better. (Haydock) --- The Assyrians prevailed. (St. Jerome) --- They carried Israel into captivity, before Juda, ver. 9. (Worth...
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 verb זנח, _zanech, _means “to remove far off,” and “to throw to a distance;” and sometimes, as some think, “to detest.” There is here, I doubt not, an implied contrast between the rejection of goo...
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...
ISRAEL HATH CAST OFF [THE THING THAT IS] GOOD,.... Or "rejected [him that is] good" y; that is, God, as Kimchi observes; for there is none good but him, Matthew 19:17; he is the "summum bonum", "the c...
Israel hath cast off [the thing that is] good: the enemy shall pursue him. Ver. 3. _Israel hath cast off the thing that is good_] Heb. the good: as, first, the good God, who is good, original, univer...
_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:...
THE JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good, they are filled with aversion and loathing for the covenant of Jehovah. THE ENEMY SHALL PURSUE HIM, as a punishment for such rebellious behavior, which is...
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...
This seems to be the answer God by his prophet gives to Israel; in the first part of the verse he doth refute their pretence of a peculiar relation and interest in God, in the latter he tells them wha...
Hosea 8:3 Israel H3478 rejected H2186 (H8804) good H2896 enemy H341 (H8802) pursue H7291 (H8799) cast -...
WHEN THE ENEMY DESCEND LIKE AN EAGLE BECAUSE THEY HAVE BROKEN THE COVENANT AND CAST OFF WHAT IS GOOD, ISRAEL WILL CRY IN VAIN, ‘”O GOD OF ISRAEL WE KNOW YOU” (HOSEA 8:1). The present hopelessness of I...
‘To me they will cry, “O God of Israel, we know you.” Israel has cast off what is good, The enemy will pursue him. In its extremity Israel will then call out, ‘O God of Israel we know you'. They wo...
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...
_Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him._ THE CHASTENING OF THEM THAT FORSAKE GOD In this short sentence we have at once the sin of Israel and his punishment. Consid...
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 8:2. 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 Timothy 5:12; Amos 1:11; Deuteronomy 28:25; Lamentations 3:66;...