all their kings, &c. Compare Hosea 8:4. Of the two houses of Omri and Jehu: Nadab, Zimri, Tibni, Jehoram, Zachariah, Shallum, Pekahiah, and Pekah were all slain by their successors, or others.
there is. Some codices, with two early printed editions (one Rabbinic in margin), read "and there".
Verse Hosea 7:7. _ALL THEIR KINGS ARE FALLEN_] There was a pitiful slaughter among the idolatrous kings of Israel; _four_ of them had fallen in the time of this prophet. Zechariah was slain by Shallu...
THEY ARE ALL HOT AS AN OVEN, AND HAVE DEVOURED THEIR JUDGES - Plans of sin, sooner or later, through God’s overruling providence, bound back upon their authors. The wisdom of God’s justice and of His...
CHAPTER 7 The Moral Depravity of Israel _ 1. Their moral depravity (Hosea 7:1) _ 2. Mingling with heathen nations (Hosea 7:8) Hosea 7:1. All the gracious efforts of the Lord to heal Israel resulted...
WICKEDNESS ENCOURAGED IN HIGH PLACES. King and princes gladly share in the prevailing wickedness adultery, drunkenness and the court itself is the scene of treachery, conspiracy, and assassinations. T...
The consequence of all this licence. King after king falls a victim to the violent passions he has fostered in his subjects. Four regicides are recorded within forty years (2 Kings 15). And yet no one...
_ISRAEL DID NOT CALL ON GOD -- HOSEA 7:7-10:_ The sins and iniquities of the people were so widespread that they engulfed judges and other leading men in society. Sin was popular and Israel did not ca...
THEY ARE ALL HOT AS AN OVEN— The prophet here describes the punishment of their crimes, keeping up the similitude under which he represented those crimes; as much as to say, "Because they have grown h...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDELOVE OF SIN TEXT: Hosea 7:1-7 1 When I would heal Israel, then is the iniquity of Ephraim uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief ente...
They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me. THEY ARE ALL HOT AS AN OVEN - all burn with eagerness to cau...
JUDGES.. KINGS] whatever definite event the prophet has in his mind this describes the general character of the northern kingdom, a restless disloyalty to kings and rulers. The only dynasties of any d...
CORRUPTION OF THE COURT In this chapter the tone again becomes despondent. How can Israel be saved when her iniquity is so deep, so glaring, so obstinate? Samaria is especially instanced as the centr...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 7 V1 I want to heal my people Israel! Then people will know that *Ephraim has *sinned....
כֻּלָּ֤ם יֵחַ֨מּוּ֙ כַּ † תַּנּ֔וּר וְ אָכְל֖וּ...
A PEOPLE IN DECAY: 1 MORALLY Hosea 4:1 - Hosea 7:7 PURSUING the plan laid down in the last chapter, we now take the section of Hosea's discourse which lies between chapter 4 and Hosea 7:7. Chapter 4...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
4. WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES Hosea 7:3 There follows now a very difficult passage. The text is corrupt, and we have no means of determining what precise events are intended. The drift of meaning, ho...
INIQUITY UNCOVERED Hosea 7:1-16 The last clause of the previous chapter belongs to this. God desired to turn aside the captivity of His people and to heal Israel, but His pleading was unavailing beca...
The prophet then declared more particularly the true state of affairs. The divine desire to heal was frustrated by the pollution and the people's persistent ignoring of God. Hosea graphically describe...
They are all hot as an oven, and have (e) devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: [there is] none among them that calleth unto me. (e) By their doing God has deprived them of all good rule...
_Judges, or rulers. Idolatry proved fatal to all, ver. 3._...
I include all these verses under one view; for they are all to the same amount. They represent the same melancholy truth, only by different figures. The heart of man ready like an oven, always heated;...
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...
IX. HOSEA 7:8-9 (NASB) EPHRAIM MIXES HIMSELF WITH THE NATIONS; EPHRAIM HAS BECOME A CAKE NOT TURNED. 9 STRANGERS DEVOUR HIS STRENGTH, YET HE DOES NOT KNOW [IT]; GRAY HAIRS ALSO ARE SPRINKLED ON HIM,...
The Prophet repeats what he had said before, that the Israelites were carried away by a mad zeal into their own superstitions and wicked practices, and could not be allayed or quieted by any remedies;...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7. Chapter 6 calls forth a touching address from the prophet, in which he entreats the people to return to Jehovah. Faith has always this resource, beca...
THEY ARE ALL HOT AS AN OVEN,.... Eager upon their idolatry, or burning in their unclean desires after other men's wives; or rather raging and furious, hot with anger and wrath against their rulers and...
They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: [there is] none among them that calleth unto me. Ver. 7. _They are all hot as an oven_] That none might post i...
_In the day of our king_ Probably the anniversary of his birth, or coronation; _the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine_ Or, _when the princes began to be hot with wine_, (so Newcome,) _he...
They are all hot as an oven, aflame with the various passions to which they have yielded themselves, AND HAVE DEVOURED THEIR JUDGES, their magistrates; ALL THEIR KINGS ARE FALLEN, the references proba...
THE MORAL CORRUPTION OF ISRAEL...
1-7 A practical disbelief of God's government was at the bottom of all israel's wickedness; as if God could not see it or did not heed it. Their sins appear on every side of them. Their hearts were i...
This verse is a key to the former, and helps us to understand the true sense thereof. THEY: see HOSEA 7:6. ALL; in a larger and more vulgar sense, the most, or almost all of them, few excepted. AS AN...
Hosea 7:7 hot H2552 (H8735) oven H8574 devoured H398 (H8804) judges H8199 (H8802) kings H4428 fallen...
They are all hot as an oven, And devour their judges, All their kings are fallen, There is none among them who calls to me. So the people, hot like a stoked oven, stoked by the leaders of the consp...
THE PEOPLE AND THEIR KINGS ARE BOTH ALIKE, BURNING HOT IN THEIR SINS, IN CONSEQUENCE OF WHICH THEIR KINGS ARE ASSASSINATED ONE AFTER THE OTHER (HOSEA 7:3). Hosea now likens the people of Israel in the...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response to Israel's, cry, continued. Israel's sad state. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If sinful souls are not healed and helped, but perish in their sin and misery, they cannot...
Hosea 7:1. _When I would have healed Israel,_ by Jehu's zeal for the Lord, then the idolatrous priests, like troops of robbers, gathered round him with lies in their mouth, and persuaded him to retain...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 7:4 Hosea compares Israel to an oven (vv. Hosea 7:4), a half-baked cake (vv. Hosea 7:8), a silly dove (vv....
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 7:4. OVEN] “In this passionate career the nation resembled a furnace which a baker heats in the evening and leaves burning all night while the dough is leavening, and then caus...
EXPOSITION This chapter may be divided into three sections. In the first section, including Hosea 7:1, the prophet reproves with much but deserved severity the depraved morals of king and princes. In...
The Lord continues His response to them. When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in...
1 Kings 15:28; 1 Kings 16:18; 1 Kings 16:22; 1 Kings 16:9; 2
Devoured — As a fire destroys, so have these conspirators, destroyed their rulers. Their kings — All that have been since Jeroboam the second's reign, to the delivery of this prophecy, namely, Zechari...