But the rift in the clouds closes again, and another severe rebuke follows. “Jacob” and “Israel” give place to the proud tribal name of Ephraim. This portion of the whole house of Israel incurs the charge. Read, Ephraim hath provoked bitter feeling. The bloodguiltinese of Moloch sacrifices and other iniquity God will not remove. (Comp. Genesis 27:43; Genesis 27:28, for the foundation of these references.)
Verse Hosea 12:14. _THEREFORE SHALL HE LEAVE HIS BLOOD UPON HIM_] He will not remove his guilt. These are similar to our Lord's words, John 3:36; John 9:41: "He that believeth not on the Son of God,...
EPHRAIM PROVOKED - the Lord most bitterly Literally, “with bitternesses,” i. e., with most heinous sins, such as are most grievously displeasing to God, and were a most bitter requital of all His good...
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...
EPHRAIRN. As represented by Jeroboam (1 Kings 12:25; 1 Kings 13:5), and Hoshea (2 Kings 17:11). HE. God. BLOOD. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), App-6, for blood-guiltiness....
This verse would be less abrupt if it immediately followed Hosea 12:11, of which it might be taken to furnish a fuller justification. _provoked_ Rather, HATH PROVOKED. _therefore shall he leave his b...
Not Israel, but Canaan should he be called; for his ideal is Canaan's. The end justifies the means, and his end is to become rich! But how bitterly will he be disappointed. He must in short begin his...
_ISRAEL PROVOKED GOD TO ANGER -- HOSEA 12:11-14:_ Gilead was a large area in Palestine known for producing many healing items but they had become terribly sinful. Now they will end up in ruin. Bulls w...
EPHRAIM PROVOKED HIM, &C.— _Ephraim hath provoked the extremest anger. His blood shall be sprinkled upon him; and his reproach,_ &c. Houbigant. REFLECTIONS.—1st, We have here, 1. The folly of _Ephrai...
REQUITINGEPHRAIM HAS PROVOKED TEXT: Hosea 12:7-14 7 He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me...
Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him. EPHRAIM PROVOKED HIM TO ANGER MOST BITTERLY - "Him," i:e....
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...
EPHRAIM.. BITTERLY] In spite of all this kindness Ephraim had provoked God to great anger. HIS BLOOD] plural, meaning 'bloodshed.' The blood which he has shed shall not be wiped off, but remain in God...
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...
_[Hosea 12:15]_ הִכְעִ֥יס אֶפְרַ֖יִם תַּמְרוּרִ֑ים וְ דָמָיו֙...
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...
_Him. He shall suffer for his crimes. (Menochius) --- He can blame only himself. (Calmet)_...
The Holy Ghost is here again pleased to refer to the history of Jacob, and affectionately speaks of him and his love. But if Jacob be so spoken of under those endearments of character; what must we sa...
REFLECTIONS PAUSE, Reader! and behold how God honored the Patriarch Jacob, a thousand years after his ashes had been mouldering in the dust! Behold what praise the Lord bestowed upon his servant's gal...
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 says first, that _Ephraim had provoked God by his high places _Some, however, take the word תמרורים, _tamerurim, _for bitternesses. Then it is, “Israel or Ephraim have provoked God to bitt...
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 PROVOKED [HIM] TO ANGER MOST BITTERLY,.... The Vulgate Latin version supplies it, me; that is, God, as Kimchi; or his Lord, as it may be supplied from the last clause of the verse; the sense i...
Ephraim provoked [him] to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him. Ver. 14. _Ephraim hath provoked him to anger, most bitterl...
_Ephraim provoked him to anger_, &c. Notwithstanding all God's favours showed to these people and their ancestors, they provoked him by their idolatries and other sins in a most outrageous manner. The...
Ephraim provoked Him to anger most bitterly, in spite of all the blessings which God had showered upon His people; THEREFORE SHALL HE, the Lord, LEAVE HIS BLOOD UPON HIM, leave Israel in his blood-gui...
ANOTHER SERIOUS REPROACH...
BLOOD: _ Heb._ bloods...
7-14 Ephraim became a merchant: the word also signifies a Canaanite. They carried on trade upon Canaanitish principles, covetously and with fraud and deceit. Thus they became rich, and falsely suppos...
EPHRAIM PROVOKED HIM TO ANGER MOST BITTERLY: after all the means used from time to time to reclaim idolatrous sinning Israel, yet still they provoked God to indignation by their idolatries, perjuries,...
Hosea 12:14 Ephraim H669 anger H3707 (H8689) bitterly H8563 Lord H113 leave H5203 (H8799) bloodshed H1818 return...
‘Ephraim has provoked to anger most bitterly, therefore will his blood be left on him, and his reproach will his Lord return to him.' Once again Hosea ends a passage with a judgment on Israel. He had...
HAVING MADE HIS APPEAL FOR REPENTANCE HOSEA NOW INDICATES THAT EPHRAIM ARE SO CONFIDENT IN THEMSELVES THAT THEIR ONLY HOPE WILL BE AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN ‘BROUGHT DOWN A PEG OR TWO' (HOSEA 12:8). This p...
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...
_Therefore shall He leave his blood upon him._ THE BLOOD-FIGURE: SIN AND GUILT LEFT UPON THE SINNER That is, he shall bring his sin upon his own head. Those that be wilful in sin, their blood be upon...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 12:2 Hosea recounts incidents from Israel’s past in order to display the Lord’s enduring kindness and Israel’s stubborn ingratitude. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Hosea 12:11. Vanity] The question strengthens the affirmation. All was to no purpose. Warnings unheeded, altars as numerous as heaps of stones gathered out of the field, and scenes...
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...
1 Kings 2:33; 1 Kings 2:34; 1 Samuel 2:30; 2 Kings 17:7; 2 Samuel 1:16
His blood — He shall bear the punishment of all his blood; his murders of the innocent, and his own guilt too. His reproach — Which Ephraim hath cast upon the prophets, the worshippers of God, and on...