HEAR... O PRIESTS. This is. call to the priests and others, as Hosea 4:1 was also. call to Israel. JUDGMENT IS TOWARD YOU. judgment is denounced upon you. MIZPAH. There were five places with this name: (1) Now _Suf_ (Genesis 31:49; Judges 10:17; Judges 11:11; Judges 11:29; Judges 11:34; Judges 20:1... [ Continue Reading ]
REVOLTERS. apostates. ARE PROFOUND TO MAKE SLAUGHTER. have deeply designed. slaughter. THOUGH. HAVE BEEN, &C.. and. [will denounce] chastisement to them all. The _Ellipsis_ thus supplied explains "these difficult words".... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHRAIM, the largest of the ten tribes, is put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), App-6, for the whole. WHOREDOM. idolatry. See note on Hosea 1:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
FRAME. fashion. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. THE SPIRIT OF WHOREDOMS. See note on Hosea 4:12; Hosea 4:19. SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ NOT KNOWN. See note on Hosea 2:20. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ (with _'eth)_. Jehovah Himself App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PRIDE OF ISRAEL. An appellation of Jehovah. the excellency, or the glory of Israel. He in Whom Israel should have gloried; so again in Hosea 7:10. Compare Amos 8:7, where it is "the Excellency of Jacob". HIS: i. e. Ephraim's, or Israel's. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _avah_. App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
GO. SEEK THE LORD. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 10:9). SEEK THE LORD. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:29). App-92. WITHDRAWN HIMSELF. Heb _. halaz;_ not sur ("depart") in Hosea 9:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
STRANGE. apostates (who had become as foreigners). Heb _. sur._ See note on Proverbs 5:3. CHILDREN. sons. A MONTH.. short time will complete their dispossession. Shallum reigned just. month (2 Kings 15:13).... [ Continue Reading ]
CORNET. horn. BETH-AVEN. See note on Hosea 4:15. AFTER THEE, &C. Apparently. war-cry. "[Look] behind thee,. Benjamin! "Compare Judges 5:14; Judges 20:40.... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT REMOVE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 19:14; Deuteronomy 27:17). App-92 Elsewhere only in Job 24:2.Proverbs 22:28; Proverbs 23:10. BOUND. boundary, or landmark.... [ Continue Reading ]
OPPRESSED AND BROKEN. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:33). WILLINGLY. willfully. WALKED AFTER. followed (perseveringly). THE COMMANDMENT. Note the _Ellipsis_: "the [idolatrous] commandment [of Jeroboam]" (1 Kings 12:28; 2 Kings 10:29). Compare Micah 6:16. Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE WILL. BE. For. [am]. ROTTENNESS: or,. worm.... [ Continue Reading ]
KING JAREB. Professor Sayce (_Higher Criticism and the Monuments,_ pp 416, 417) thinks "Jareb" may he the birth-name of the usurper Sargon II, the successor of Shalmaneser. Shalmaneser did not take Samaria, but his successor did, as stated in an inscription found in the palace which he built near Ni... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL. Some codices read "and. will". TAKE AWAY. carry off. HIM. Omit.... [ Continue Reading ]
TILL THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR OFFENCE. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:40). National repentance is the condition of Israel's restoration. SEEK MY FACE. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:29). App-92. SEEK ME EARLY. This expression, though not found in the Pentateuch, occurs in Job 7:21; Job... [ Continue Reading ]