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Hosea 8:8-14
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.
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.
Verse Hosea 8:8. _NOW SHALL THEY BE AMONG THE GENTILES_] They shall be carried into captivity, and there be as a vessel wherein there is no pleasure; one soiled, unclean, infectious, to be despised,...
ISRAEL IS SWALLOWED UP - Not only shall all which they have, be swallowed up by the enemy, but themselves also; and this, not at any distant time, but “now.” “Now,” at a time all but present, “they sh...
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...
ISRAEL IS SWALLOWED UP. See 2 Kings 17:6. GENTILES. nations. AS. VESSEL. Compare Jeremiah 22:28; Jeremiah 48:38....
_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...
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...
Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. ISRAEL IS SWALLOWED UP - not merely Israel's possessions, but Israel herself. NOW SHALL THEY BE AM...
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...
VESSEL WHEREIN IS NO PLEASURE — _i.e._, worthless (comp. Jeremiah 48:38; Psalms 31:13; 2 Timothy 2:20); a vessel devoted to vilest uses, or smashed up as worthless....
נִבְלַ֖ע יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל עַתָּה֙ הָי֣וּ בַ † גֹּויִ֔ם...
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...
_Vessel. The nations around despised them, after they had applied to the Assyrians, who were looked upon as enemies of all independent states. Israel was not yet in captivity: but this event may be sp...
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......
He uses the same word as before when he spake of the meal, and says, that not only the provision of Israel shall be devoured, but also the people themselves; and he upbraids the Israelites with their...
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 IS SWALLOWED UP,.... Not only their substance, but their persons also, the whole nation of them, their whole estate, civil and ecclesiastic: it notes the utter destruction of them by the Assyri...
Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure. Ver. 8. _Israel is swallowed up_] Not their meal only, as Hosea 8:7, but themselves also are devoure...
_Israel is swallowed up_ Under this image the Hebrew language, the Greek, and our own, describe any sudden destruction, so complete as to leave no visible vestige of the thing remaining. The prophet s...
A FURTHER THREAT OF JUDGMENT...
Israel is swallowed up, its judgment being practically accomplished even now, the statement being made as though the prophecy were already fulfilled; NOW SHALL THEY BE AMONG THE GENTILES AS A VESSEL W...
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...
In the former verse the prophet foretells the lost labour of such pains and seed as Ephraim bestowed; now he addeth somewhat more dreadful, the harvest is ruin and destruction to the seedsman, he is s...
Hosea 8:8 Israel H3478 up H1104 (H8738) Gentiles H1471 vessel H3627 pleasure H2656 swallowed -...
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...
‘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...
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...
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 8:8. SWALLOWED] up as devoured by beasts of prey. VESSEL] worthless and dishonoured (2 Timothy 2:20); and broken (Psalms 31:12;...
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 17:1; 2 Kings 18:11; 2 Timothy 2:20; 2 Timothy 2:21;...