Hosea 13 - Introduction
_EPHRAIM'S GLORY, BY REASON OF IDOLATRY, VANISHETH. GOD'S ANGER FOR THEIR UNKINDNESS. A PROMISE OF GOD'S MERCY. A JUDGMENT FOR REBELLION._ _Before Christ 725._... [ Continue Reading ]
_EPHRAIM'S GLORY, BY REASON OF IDOLATRY, VANISHETH. GOD'S ANGER FOR THEIR UNKINDNESS. A PROMISE OF GOD'S MERCY. A JUDGMENT FOR REBELLION._ _Before Christ 725._... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN EPHRAIM SPAKE, TREMBLING— _When Ephraim promulged his edicts,_ or _first became a kingdom._ Houbigant. It may be otherwise understood, that when he behaved himself with dutiful submission and obedience to God, his kingdom was powerful; but when he gave himself up to idolatry, his strength immed... [ Continue Reading ]
LET THE MEN THAT SACRIFICE KISS THE CALVES— Or it should rather be rendered, _Let the sacrificers of men kiss the calves._ It appears from this passage, that superstition and idolatry had made such a progress among the ten tribes, that human sacrifices were made an essential rite in the worship of t... [ Continue Reading ]
YET I AM, &C.— _For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: And thou shalt see that there is no other God but me, nor any Saviour beside me._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
I DID KNOW THEE, &C.— _I fed thee,_ &c. Houbigant after the LXX.... [ Continue Reading ]
ACCORDING TO THEIR PASTURE, SO WERE THEY FILLED— _But they were filled in their pastures._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS A LEOPARD, &C.— _As a leopard in the way to the Assyrians._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
O ISRAEL, &C.— _O Israel, I will destroy thee, and who shall bring thee help?_ Hosea 13:10. _Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities? And thy judges,_ &c. Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
I GAVE THEE A KING— _I will give thee a king in mine anger, and will take him away,_ &c. We retain the future, because this may be considered as an answer to the demand just made, _Give me a king,_ &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE INIQUITY OF EPHRAIM IS BOUND UP, &C.— _The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up in a bundle: His sin is kept as a deposit._ Houbigant. It is laid by as a treasure; it is not forgotten; the time for punishing Ephraim is not come, though it is not far off. _Manet alta mente repostum._... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SORROW, &C.— _The sorrrows of a travailing woman shall come on his account: But he is a foolish infant; nor will he place himself where is the breaking forth of children._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL RANSOM THEM, &C.— _Shall I deliver them from the jaws of the grave? Shall I redeem them from death? O death! where is thy sting? O grave! where is thy destructive power?_ Houbigant. If the ideas here used primarily refer to the restoration of the Jews; they have also, no doubt, an immediate r... [ Continue Reading ]
THOUGH HE BE FRUITFUL AMONG HIS BRETHREN— _Though he had been fruitful;_ יפריא _iaprii:_ in which word there is an allusion to the name _Ephraim;_ אפרי _apri,_ which comes from פרה _parah;_ and therefore the similitude is continued throughout the verse. REFLECTIONS.—1st, The sin which above all oth... [ Continue Reading ]