A Reproof of Commercial Dishonesty
The Hebrew text divides the chapter more correctly at this v. The prophet returns to the subject of the unfaithfulness both of Israel and of Judah. They have sought help where it was not to be found, and neglected God, the only source of help, in forgetfulness of the example of their ancestor Jacob.
CHAPTER XII _The prophet, in very pointed terms, describes the_ _unprofitableness and destruction attending vicious courses;_ _particularly such as Ephraim pursued, who forsook God, and_ _courted...
EPHRAIM FEEDETH ON WIND, AND FOLLOWETH AFTER THE EAST WIND - The East wind in Palestine, coming from Arabia and the far East, over large tracts of sandy waste, is parching, scorching, destructive to v...
CHAPTER S 11:12-12:14 THE INDICTMENT _ 1. Ephraim's indictment (Hosea 11:12; Hosea 12:1) _ 2. Remembrance of the past (Hosea 12:3) 3. What Israel had become ...
HOSEA 11:12 TO HOSEA 12:14 (= Hebrews 12:1). EPHRAIM'S INFIDELITY TRACED FROM THE BEGINNING. This is one of the most difficult passages in Hosea. In the text Judah also is mentioned; but this may be d...
FEEDETH ON WIND. Compare Hosea 8:7. WIND. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. FOLLOWETH AFTER. pursueth. DAILY. all the day long DESOLATION. violence. MAKE. COVENANT, &C. Compare Hosea 5:13; H
_wind … the east wind_ Note the climax; the parching east wind combines the ideas of destructiveness and emptiness. Comp. Job 15:2; Job 27:21, and note on Hosea 13:15. _lies and desolation_ Rather, LI...
_GOD'S CONTROVERSY WITH ISRAEL AND JUDAH -- HOSEA 12:1-4:_ Israel was wasting her time on that which had no spiritual substance. It was like feeding on the wind. It was an "east" wind or a wind off of...
LIES AND DESOLATIONS— _Perfidiousness and violence._ Houbigant reads the next clause, _They make a covenant with the Assyrians, whilst in the mean time oil is carried into Egypt._ That is, "While they...
LOVE REBUKING REQUITINGEPHRAIM HAS PROVOKED TEXT: Hosea 12:1-6 1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant...
Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt. This prophecy was...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 12 V1 There is much that the people of Israel do from morning to night. But it has no worth. They tell lies and they destroy thi...
XII. (1) EAST WIND. — Comp. Isaiah 27:8 and Job 27:21. On the latter passage Wetzstein remarks: — “This wind is more frequent in winter and early spring, when, if it continues long, the tender vegetat...
_[Hosea 12:2]_ אֶפְרַ֜יִם רֹעֶ֥ה ר֨וּחַ֙ וְ רֹדֵ֣ף...
THE FINAL ARGUMENT Hosea 12:1 - Hosea 14:1 THE impassioned call with which the last chapter closed was by no means an assurance of salvation: "How am I to give thee, up, Ephraim? how am I to let thee...
TURN TO GOD, NOT TO SELFISH GAIN Hosea 11:12; Hosea 12:1-14 Though Judah still ruled with God, Hosea 11:12, yet there was grave fault in him, and, like Ephraim, which had been engaging the prophet's...
In the second movement Jehovah set the present sin in the light of His present love. The sin of Ephraim and the sin of Judah, if the marginal reading be adopted, are both declared. The sin of Ephraim...
Ephraim feedeth (a) on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and (b) oil is carried into Egypt. (a) That is...
_On. Literally, the wind. (Haydock) --- To trust in men is no less vain. (Worthington) --- Septuagint, "Ephraim is an evil spirit," &c. --- Heat. Hebrew, "eastern or burning wind." (Haydock) --- Manah...
CONTENTS The subject contained in this Chapter hath respect to Ephraim Judah and Jacob: in it there is a mixture of reproof and commendation. Hosea 12:1 Under the figure of wind is here shown, the...
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...
The Prophet here inveighs against the vain hopes of the people, for they were inflated with such arrogance, that they despised all instruction and all admonitions. It was therefore necessary, in the f...
The Spirit presents another aspect of the relationship of Israel with God. He would punish Ephraim, and the sins of Judah should be remembered. But He reminds them, that there was a time when Jacob co...
EPHRAIM FEEDETH ON WIND,.... Which will be no more profitable and beneficial to him than wind is to a man that opens his mouth, and fills himself with it: the phrase is expressive of labour in vain, a...
Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt. Ver. 1. _Ephraim fe...
_Ephraim feedeth on wind_ Flatters himself with vain, delusive hopes, of receiving effectual support from the alliances which he forms. It is a proverbial expression to signify labour in vain, or purs...
Ephraim feedeth on wind, striving after vain and empty things, AND FOLLOWETH AFTER THE EAST WIND, a hot wind coming up from the Arabian Desert, scorching everything with which it comes into contact; H...
THE LORD'S ACCUSATION...
1-6 Ephraim feeds himself with vain hopes of help from man, when he is at enmity with God. The Jews vainly thought to secure the Egyptians by a present of the produce of their country. Judah is conte...
HOSEA CHAPTER 12 Ephraim and Judah are both reproved, HOSEA 12:1,2. In consideration of God's former favours to Jacob they are exhorted to repent, HOSEA 12:3. Ephraim's sins and ingratitude provoke Go...
Hosea 12:1 Ephraim H669 feeds H7462 (H8802) wind H7307 pursues H7291 (H8802) wind H6921 daily H3117 increases...
‘Ephraim feeds on wind, and pursues the east wind, he continually multiplies lies and desolation, and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.' To feed on wind is to feed on w...
AN APPEAL IS MADE TO JACOB'S EXAMPLE WHICH SIMPLY SERVES TO REVEAL ISRAEL'S PARLOUS STATE AND GUARANTEES THE COMING JUDGMENT OF DESTRUCTION AND THE EXILE BUT IT IS WITH THE PROMISE OF FINAL RESTORATIO...
YHWH MAKES A FURTHER APPEAL TO EPHRAIM AND JUDAH ON THE BASIS OF WHAT THEIR ANCESTOR JACOB DID (HOSEA 12:1). Having first stressed Ephraim's total folly and unacceptable deceitfulness, and the fact th...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Further reproof of Israel's sins. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Those who make creatures and things their confidence, put a cheat upon their own souls, and pr...
Hosea 12:4. _He found him in Bethel._ Christ, the angel, the mystical angel, or the Angel the Word, as St. Clemens of Alexandria calls him: so indeed do all the orthodox fathers. The church knows of n...
_Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation._ THE EAST WIND IN PALESTINE Coming from Arabia and the far East, over large tracts of sandy waste...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Hosea 12:1. Feed] To eat or graze. WIND] What is empty and vain; to hunt after nothing, labour in vain. EAST] A fierce and destructive wind, oppressive and violent (Job 27:21); figur...
EXPOSITION In Hosea 12:1 God continues his complaint against Ephraim, charging them specially with the pursuit of vain and futile courses to their great detriment. Instead of repairing to the true and...
Ephraim feeds on the wind, and follows after the east wind: he daily increases lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians (Hsa Hosea 12:1), They tried to escape the destructi...
2 Kings 15:19; 2 Kings 17:4; Hosea 11:12; Hosea 5:13; Hosea 8:7;...
Feedeth on wind — It is a proverbial speech; denoting his supporting himself with hopes, as unfit to sustain him as the wind is to feed us. Increaseth lies — By making new leagues, and fortifying hims...