Hosea 9:1
PEOPLE. peoples. GONE. WHORING: i.e. gone into idolatry. See note on Hosea 1:2. A REWARD. a love-fee. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 23:18, "hire"). App-92.... [ Continue Reading ]
PEOPLE. peoples. GONE. WHORING: i.e. gone into idolatry. See note on Hosea 1:2. A REWARD. a love-fee. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 23:18, "hire"). App-92.... [ Continue Reading ]
FLOOR. threshing-floor. WINEPRESS. wine fat. Hebrew. _yekeb,_ the wine receptacle; not _gath_, the winepress. See note on Isaiah 5:2. NEW WINE. Hebrew. _tirosh._ App-27. Not same as Hosea 9:4. HER.. special various reading called _Sevir_ (App-34), with some codices, one early printed edition, Ara... [ Continue Reading ]
RETURN TO EGYPT. See Hosea 8:13; Hosea 11:5. Compare Ezekiel 4:13. IN ASSYRIA. See 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 11:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27. Not same as in Hosea 9:2. BREAD. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species), App-6, for all kinds of food. OF MOURNERS. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 26:14.Numbers 19:14; Numbers 19:14). App-92. Hebrew. _'aven._. _Homonym._ See note on "Benjamin", Genes... [ Continue Reading ]
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 is _kabaz._ (Jeremiah 8:2.Ezekiel 29:5.) MEMPHIS. The capital of Lower Egypt (near Cairo). Now _M... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DAYS OF VISITATION ARE COME. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 32:34). App-92. Compare Luke 19:44; Luke 21:22. RECOMPENCE. retribution. KNOW [IT]. discover [her wickedness, when she said]. SPIRITUAL MAN. man of the Spirit: i.e. God's prophet, who is defined as. man in whom the Spirit of God was... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WATCHMAN. Note the series of contrasts, what Ephraim had been, and what Ephraim had now become, which commences here; with remarks following each. See Hosea 9:10 and Hosea 9:13; Hosea 10:1; Hosea 10:9; Hosea 11:1; Hosea 13:1. WATCHMAN. Used of. true prophet in Isaiah 21:6.Jeremiah 6:17;... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DAYS OF GIBEAH. See Hosea 10:9. This implies. common knowledge of the history of Judges 19:15, &c. THEREFORE. Some codices, with three early printed editions (one Rabbinic, marg), read "now will He", &c. HE: i.e. Jehovah. App-4. He will visit. Some codices read "that He may visit". Compare Hos... [ Continue Reading ]
I FOUND, &C. Another contrast. See Hosea 9:8. THEY WENT, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 25:3). The history was well known, or this reference to it would be useless. App-92. BAAL-PEOR. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 25:3.Deuteronomy 4:3; Deuteronomy 4:3). Elsewhere only in Psalms 106:28. Co... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM THE BIRTH, &C.. no birth, none with child, no conception. CONCEPTION. This particular word _herayon_ occurs only here, and Ruth 4:13. A similar word (Hebrew. _haron)_ in Genesis 3:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOUGH THEY BRING UP, &C Not "inappropriate after Hosea 9:11 ", but is part of the contrast commenced there. CHILDREN. sons. WILL. BEREAVE THEM. Ref to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:22.Deuteronomy 28:41; Deuteronomy 28:62). WHEN. DEPART FROM THEM. when. take command from them. Hebrew. _sur,_ as in Hose... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. SAW TYRUS. Another contrast. See note on Hosea 9:8. The verse does not "defy explanation". AS. according as. TYRUS. See Isaiah 23.Ezekiel 26; Ezekiel 27; Ezekiel 28.... [ Continue Reading ]
WICKEDNESS. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. GILGAL. Compare Hosea 4:15; Hosea 12:11. The place where Jehovah was rejected, and man's king set up; and where, on account of his impatience and disobedience Saul got his first message of his rejection (1 Samuel 13:4), and his second (1 Samuel 15:12). See note... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SHALL BE WANDERERS, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:64; Deuteronomy 28:65).... [ Continue Reading ]