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Hosea 9:6

HOSEA—NOTE ON Hosea 9:6 they are going away from destruction. They think they are safe, but Egypt shall gather them. Other disasters are described in the rest of the verse.

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See also Hosea 9:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 9:6. _FOR, LO, THEY ARE GONE_] Many of them fled to Egypt to avoid the _destruction_; but they went there only to _die_. _MEMPHIS_] Now _Cairo_, or _Kahira_, found them _graves_. _THE P...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR LO, THEY ARE GONE BECAUSE OF DESTRUCTION - They had fled, for fear of destruction, to destruction. For fear of the destruction from Assyria, they were fled away and gone to Egypt, hoping, doubtles...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE JOYLESS DISCIPLINE OF EXILE. The delirious joy of the popular nature-religion shall soon be exchanged for the sorrows of exile. In her own land Israel had treacherously ascribed to the Baalim the...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BECAUSE OF. from. EGYPT. [yet] Egypt. Compare Hosea 7:16. SHALL GATHER THEM UP. shall rake them out [for manure, or for burning]; not for burial in their own land; this would be _'asaph._ But here it...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A vivid picture of the bitterness of the calamity in prospect. It does but equal the Gibeah-like wickedness of Israel....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Hosea -in the Spirit" sees the Israelites already being carried into captivity. _because of destruction_ Rather, FROM THE DEVASTATION. They have left their desolated country. _shall gather them up_ v...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _ISRAEL FACED CERTAIN DESTRUCTION -- HOSEA 9:1-6:_ Israel was headed for a fall. They had been unfaithful to God by behaving like spiritual prostitutes. They enjoyed the blessings they had received fr...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE PLEASANT PLACES, &C.— _The precious things which they had purchased for silver._ The words are obscure; but the meaning seems to be, that the Israelites, upon the approach of the enemy, should bur...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    LOVE REBUKING Hosea 9:1, Hosea 13:16 REPROVINGISRAEL FORSOOK GOD TEXT: Hosea 9:1-9 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou hast played the harlot, departing from thy God; thou...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernac...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    9:6 Moph (k-15) Noph (Memphis)....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    EGYPT.. UP] Their efforts to escape are useless. They would be captured and brought to Egypt, with only death and burial to look forward to: see on Hosea 8:13. THE PLEASANT.. SILVER] RV 'their pleasan...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    Translate, _Behold if they have gone from the desolation_ (_i.e.,_ Palestine laid waste by the invader), _Egypt shall gather them, Memphis bury them_ — Memphis, the vast city and necropolis of Ptah, w...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּֽי ־הִנֵּ֤ה הָֽלְכוּ֙ מִ שֹּׁ֔ד מִצְרַ֥יִם...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    3. THE EFFECTS OF EXILE Hosea 9:1 Hosea now turns to describe the effects of exile upon the social and religious habits of the people. It must break up at once the joy and the sacredness of their liv...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “THE DAYS OF RECOMPENSE ARE COME” Hosea 9:1-9 The subject of this chapter is the bitterness of the captivity which was awaiting Israel as the result of their unfaithfulness. Their exile would put an...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For, lo, they are gone because of (g) destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant [places] for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns [shall be] in their t...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Gather into the grave. Yet some shall escape, chap. xi. 11. --- Silver, which they buried at the approach of the enemy, hoping to recover it when they should depart. The Arabs do so still, (Calmet) a...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader, I beg of you to observe the Lord's grace still to Israel. How tenderly doth the Lord mourn over his captives, when beholding them void of ordinances. What will ye do, saith the Lord? If there...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet confirms here what is contained in the last verse, that is, that the Israelites would at length find that the Prophets had not in vain threatened them, though they at the time heedlessly d...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR, LO, THEY ARE GONE, BECAUSE OF DESTRUCTION,.... That is, many of the people of Israel were gone out of their own land to others, particularly to Egypt, because of the destruction that was coming u...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant [places] for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns [shall be] in their taber...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _What will ye do in the solemn day_ What will you do in your captivity, when any of your solemn or festival days come? When you shall find yourselves far from your own country, without temple, without...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For, lo, they are gone because of destruction, the prophet already seeing them in banishment. EGYPT, the land of bondage, SHALL GATHER THEM UP, 8:13; MEMPHIS, the capital of the land of their captivit...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WARNING AGAINST FALSE SECURITY...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    DESTRUCTION: _ Heb._ spoil THE PLEASANT PLACES FOR THEIR SILVER, NETTLES: Or, their silver shall be desired, the nettle etc. _Heb._ the desire...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 Israel gave rewards to their idols, in the offerings presented to them. It is common for those who are niggardly in religion, to be prodigal upon their lusts. Those are reckoned as idolaters, who...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    FOR, LO; mark it well, and observe the event. THEY ARE GONE BECAUSE OF DESTRUCTION; some of the wary and timorous are already withdrawn from the desolation that cometh on their country, and more will...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 9:6 gone H1980 (H8804) destruction H7701 Egypt H4714 up H6908 (H8762) Memphis H4644 bury H6912 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL MUST NOT REJOICE AT THEIR HARVEST FEAST BECAUSE EVERYTHING WILL SHORTLY BE TAKEN FROM THEM WHEN THEY ARE EXILED TO EGYPT/ASSYRIA BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY HAVE BECOME AND BECAUSE OF HOW THEY HAVE TR...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘For, lo, they are gone away from destruction, Egypt will gather them up, Memphis will bury them.' For when they went into exile they would leave behind them a scene of destruction. Israel and Samar...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 9:5. SOLEMN DAY] God “singles out the great festivals which commemorated his great doings for his people as though they had no more share in these mercies.” Sad to be deprived...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 13:6; 2 Kings 13:7; Deuteronomy 28:63; Deuteronomy 28:64;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    They are gone — Some are already withdrawn from the desolation that cometh. Egypt — In Egypt they hope to be quiet and survive these desolations, but they shall die in Egypt. The pleasant places — The...

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