Translate, And Ephraim saith, Surely I have become wealthy; I have gotten me substance (i.e., by legitimate means, not robbery): all my earnings bring me not guilt as would be sin (i.e., requiring expiation). Such a coarse pursuit of wealth, and such glorying in the innocence of the entire process by which it has been obtained, has its parallel in the moral position of the Laodicean Church, rebuked by our Lord (Revelation 3).
Verse Hosea 12:8. _I AM BECOME RICH_] They boasted in their riches, notwithstanding the _unjust manner_ in which they were acquired. IN _ALL MY LABOURS THEY SHALL FIND NONE INIQUITY IN ME_] This is...
AND EPHRAIM SAID, YET AM I BECOME RICH - Literally, “I am simply rich.” As if he said, “the only result of all this, with which the prophets charge me, is that ‘I am become rich:’ and since God thus p...
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...
LABOURS. toils. INIQUITY. perversity. Hebrew. _'avah_. App-44. Not the same word as in Hosea 12:11. THAT WERE. which [is]....
_And Ephraim said_ Better, EPHRAIM INDEED SAID, SURELY I HAVE BECOME RICH, I HAVE GOTTEN ME WEALTH: ALL MY PROFITS SHALL BRING ME NO INIQUITY THAT WERE A SIN. Ephraim congratulates himself on his rich...
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...
_PAYING FOR DISHONESTY IN BUSINESS -- HOSEA 12:7-10:_ Israel had become deceitful. They enjoyed cheating and taking advantage of other people. These dishonest people would use a heavy weight to buy wi...
IN ALL MY LABOURS, &C.— _My labours shall be my own nor shall the iniquity be found out, wherein I have sinned._ Houbigant....
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...
And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall...
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...
AND EPHRAIM] The Israelites had only too readily learnt the tricks of cheating from the Canaanites. YET] RV 'surely.' It is the natural consequence of his unjust dealing. IN ALL.. SIN] Israel is never...
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 12:9]_ וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֶפְרַ֔יִם אַ֣ךְ עָשַׁ֔רְתִּי...
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...
And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: [in] all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me (h) that [were] sin. (h) Thus way the wicked measure God's favour by out...
_Idol. Hebrew also, "vanity." Riches are vain, and lead to idolatry when people place their affections on them, Matthew xiii. 22., and Ephesians v. 5. --- Committed. I am conscious of no injustice. (C...
The Prophet here follows up the just and becoming resolution which ought to take place in every heart of Jacob's children, whether Ephraim or Judah, in pursuing the steps of their father. And he goes...
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...
Here God complains by his Prophet, that the Israelites flattered themselves in their vices, because their affairs succeeded prosperously and according to their wishes: and it is a vice too common, tha...
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...
AND EPHRAIM SAID, YET I AM BECOME RICH,.... Notwithstanding they took such unjust methods, as to use deceitful balances, they prospered in the world, got abundance of riches; and therefore concluded f...
And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: [in] all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that [were] sin. Ver. 8. _And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich_] _Sed...
_He is a merchant_, &c. Bishop Horsley renders this verse thus: _Canaan the trafficker! The cheating balances in his hand! He has set his heart upon over-reaching!_ On which the bishop observes, “God...
And Ephraim said, in refusing to heed the Lord's admonitions through His prophets, YET I AM BECOME RICH, thus trying to excuse his dishonest ways, I HAVE FOUND ME OUT SUBSTANCE, becoming prosperous as...
ANOTHER SERIOUS REPROACH...
IN ALL MY LABOURS THEY SHALL FIND NONE INIQUITY IN ME, THAT WERE SIN: Or, all my labours suffice me not, he shall have punishment of iniquity in whom is sin...
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 SAID; this covetous, oppressive merchant reckoned with himself, or discoursed with himself, upon the whole of his trading. YET I AM BECOME RICH; whatever is said by some, or thought by others,...
Hosea 12:8 Ephraim H669 said H559 (H8799) rich H6238 (H8804) found H4672 (H8804) wealth H202 labors...
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...
‘And Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, in all my labours they will find in me no iniquity that was sin.” In total contrast with Hosea's accusation in Hosea 12:7...
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...
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...
_He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress, etc._ FORTUNES I. Fortunes badly used. 1. Here there is no recognition of human co-operation. No man comes in posses...
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. ⇐...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 12:5 Hosea again reminds Israel of their spiritual heritage. MEMORIAL NAME. See Exodus 3:15. God’s choosing of Israel is the reason Israel can now retur
CRITICAL NOTES.] Hosea 12:7. Merchant] Marg. a Canaanite, a heathen, unlike Israel, to whom Canaanites were a reproach (Ezekiel 16:3). OPPRESS] Lit. deceive. Men whose trade is deceit, whose balance...
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 Timothy 6:17; 1 Timothy 6:5; Deuteronomy 8:17; Habakkuk 1:16;...
I am rich — Whatever is said, yet I get what I aim at. They shall find — Yet he hugs himself in the apprehension of close carriage of his affairs, so that no great crime can be found in him: none, tha...