Thy calf, O Samaria— Houbigant reads these verses thus: Mine anger is kindled against them: when will they attain to innocency? Thy calf, O Samaria, shall be cast off: It had Israel for its founder: the workman made it; nor is it a god. Therefore the calf of Samaria shall be consumed in the fire.
Verse Hosea 8:5. _THY CALF, O SAMARIA, HATH CAST_ THEE _OFF_] Bishop _Newcome_ translates: "Remove far from thee thy calf, O Samaria!" Abandon thy idolatry; for _my anger is kindled against thee_. _...
THY CALF, O SAMARIA, HATH CAST THEE OFF - Israel had cast off God, his good. In turn, the prophet says, the “calf,” which he had chosen to be his god instead of the Lord his God, “has cast” him “off.”...
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)...
ISRAEL'S UNSANCTIFIED NATIONAL LIFE. Man-made kings, like man-made gods (the calf of Samaria), are impotent; Israel sows the wind and shall reap the whirlwind; the sources of the national life are wit...
THY CALF, &C. Render: "He [Jehovah] hath rejected thy calf,. Samaria". SAMARIA. The capital is put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), App-6, for the whole nation. ATTAIN. Note the _Elli...
_Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off_ This rendering is very harsh in this context; Ewald prefers -He hath cast off thy calf", a contrast to -Israel hath cast off that which is good" in Hosea 8:3....
_ISRAEL SOWED THE WIND -- HOSEA 8:5-7:_ Israel was the name of the nation. Ephraim was the larger tribe in the Northern Kingdom. Samaria was the city that was the capital of the Northern Kingdom. God...
DISCOURSE: 1163 THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF CHRISTIAN INNOCENCE Hosea 8:5. _How long will it be ere they attain to innoceney?_ IT is impossible to read the history of God’s ancient people, or to survey...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDETHE LORD'S LAMENT TEXT: Hosea 8:1-7 1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. As an eagle he cometh against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespasse...
Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? THY CALF, O SAMARIA, HATH CAST THEE OFF. Since the ellipsis of "thee...
8:5 off; (b-8) Or 'He has cast off thy calf, O Samaria.' purity? (c-22) As 'innocency,' Genesis 20:5 ; Psalms 26:6 ....
THE LONG-MERITED RETRIBUTION The enemy is coming immediately to destroy their temples and palaces and desolate the land, and as a punishment for their idolatry and disloyalty to God. In vain will the...
THY CALF.. OFF] RV 'He hath cast off thy calf, O Samaria'; meaning that the calf would be taken off by the enemy, Samaria, the capital, being put for the whole people. The allusion is, of course, to t...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 8 GOD IS ANGRY WITH ISRAEL BECAUSE SHE PRAYS TO *IDOLS V1 Put a *trumpet to your lips and warn people! An *eagle is over the *L...
THY CALF... HATH CAST THEE OFF. — Rather, _is loathsome,_ Nothing can exceed the scorn of this outburst. The last clause should be rendered, _How long are ye unable to attain purity?_ The attribution...
זָנַח֙ עֶגְלֵ֣ךְ שֹֽׁמְרֹ֔ון חָרָ֥ה אַפִּ֖י בָּ֑ם...
2. ARTIFICIAL KINGS AND ARTIFICIAL GODS Hosea 8:4 The curse of such a state of dissipation as that to which Israel had fallen is that it produces no men. Had the people had in them "the root of the m...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
1. THE CONFUSION OF THE NATION Hosea 7:8; Hosea 8:1 Hosea begins by summing up the public aspect of Israel in two epigrams, short but of marvelous adequacy:-Hosea 7:8 "Ephraim-among the nations he...
REAPING THE WHIRLWIND Hosea 8:1-14 A conqueror was at hand who should subdue and punish the whole nation for taking its own course, irrespective of God, Hosea 8:4-8; for seeking foreign alliances whi...
From this statement of the case the prophet turned to the pronouncement of judgment. This he did by adopting the figure of the trumpet lifted to the mouth, on which five blasts were sounded, in each o...
Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast [thee] off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long [will it be] ere they attain to (d) innocency? (d) That is, upright judgment and a godly life....
_Calf. The idol is broken in pieces, and carried away by the victorious enemy. Thus does the vanity of such gods appear. Their captivity is therefore often foretold, Jeremias xliii. 12. --- Cleansed....
The Chapter opens with a command to someone, and it should seem most likely to be to the Prophet, to cry aloud, in a way of reproof and expostulation. The expression is not unlike that command to Isai...
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...
_CALF-RELIGION_ ‘Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off.’ Hosea 8:5 I. MAN IS A RELIGIOUS ANIMAL.—Both terms in this definition are needed to describe him. Man has what a molluse has not, namely,...
XI. HOSEA 8:7 (NASB) FOR THEY SOW THE WIND, AND THEY REAP THE WHIRLWIND......
The Prophet goes on with the same subject; for he shows that Israel perished through their own fault, and that the crime, or the cause of destruction, could not be transferred to any other. There is s...
In chapter 8 it is especially the daring and continual violation of the law of their God, with which Israel is openly reproached, and which would bring judgment, with eagle swiftness, upon them. Obser...
THY CALF, O SAMARIA, HATH CAST [THEE] OFF,.... Or, is the cause of thy being cast off by the Lord, and of being cast out of thine own land, and carried captive into another; the past tense is used for...
Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast [thee] off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long [will it be] ere they attain to innocency? Ver. 5. _Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off_] That is, it can d...
_Thy calf, O Samaria_ Here God himself, who is the speaker, turns short upon Samaria, or the ten tribes; and, in a tone of dreadful indignation, upbraids their corrupt worship. _Hath cast thee off_ Th...
Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off, or, "Is rejected thy calf," one of the idols made with their gold, "O Samaria?" the reference being to the calf of Bethel and Samaria, which is being addressed...
THE JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
5-10 They promised themselves plenty, peace, and victory, by worshipping idols, but their expectations came to nothing. What they sow has no stalk, no blade, or, if it have, the bud shall yield no fr...
THY CALF; Jeroboam at first set up two calves, at Dan and Beth-el, but it is probable that in process of time there were more set up in other places, for when Israel forgot his God he built temples, H...
Hosea 8:5 calf H5695 rejected H2186 (H8804) Samaria H8111 anger H639 aroused H2734 (H8804) until H3808 attain...
‘He has cast off (is disgusted at) your calf, O Samaria, My anger is kindled against them, How long will it be before they attain to innocency? For from Israel is even this, The workman made it, a...
ISRAEL HAVE LAID FALSE FOUNDATIONS IN KINGSHIP AND RELIGION, AND YHWH, DESPAIRING OF THERE BEING ANY LIKELIHOOD OF THEIR BECOMING PURE, WILL IN ANGER BOTH DESTROY ‘THE CALF OF SAMARIA' AND MINIMISE TH...
Hosea 8:5 I. Consider the expression, "Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off." The clever policy by which Jeroboam was to escape a difficulty which he could and ought to have met in faith in the pro...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Sins denounced and captivity foretold. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Those who sow to the flesh must reap corruption. All the hopes of sinners are cheats, and...
Hosea 8:1. _Set the trumpet to thy mouth._ Give alarm, for the king of Assyria is coming; he is stretching his wings like an eagle to take the prey. Isaiah uses the same figure, in Isaiah 58:1. _Again...
_Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cut thee off; or, Thy calf, O Samaria, hath kicked thee off._ KICKING CALVES The words of the text have a quaint sound. They suggest a ludicrous figure. There is something...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 8:1 The people of Israel may claim to know and love the Lord, but their deeds prove otherwise. ⇐ ⇔
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 8:5 I HAVE SPURNED YOUR CALF, O SAMARIA. These verses respond to v. Hosea 8:3, “Israel has spurned the good.” As the calf-idol in Aaron’s day was pulverized, s
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 8:6. FOR] The reason of displeasure. IT ALSO] The calf as well as the kings set up, made by Israel, not by God. It deserved not their homage, no creature can be God; idol worsh...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 8:2. WE] Heb. joins Israel with the last clause, “_We know thee, we Israel_,” a plea of descent to move God to mercy; but hypocrisy, the cry of fear and not love. Dead knowledg...
EXPOSITION This chapter deals with the punishment of apostasy. Once more the sins of the northern kingdom are enumerated and its approaching fall predicted. There is a close connection between the ver...
Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law (Hsa Hosea 8:1). So God again is giving...
2 Kings 17:16; 2 Kings 17:21; Acts 7:41; Deuteronomy 32:22; Hose
Thy calf — The chief idol set up in Samaria. Cast thee off — Hath provoked God to cast thee off. Against them — Idols, and idol worshippers. How long — How long will it be, ere they repent and reform?...