The tops of the hills were continually chosen for idolatrous temples, i.e., “high places.”
Poplar — i.e., the white poplar, not the storax of the LXX., which is a shrub only a few feet high.
Elms should be “terebinth tree” (’çlah).
Verse Hosea 4:13. _UNDER OAKS_] אלון _allon_, from אלל _alal_, he was _strong_. Hence, the _oak_, in Latin, is called _robur_; which word means also, _strength_, the oak being the strongest of all the...
THEY SACRIFICE UPON THE TOPS OF THE MOUNTAINS - The tops of hills or mountains seemed nearer heaven, the air was purer, the place more removed from the world. To worship the Unseen God upon them, was...
II. THE MESSAGE OF EXPOSTULATION, JUDGMENT, AND MERCY CHAPTER 4 The Lord's Controversy with His People _ 1. The condition of the people (Hosea 4:1) _ 2. The loss of their priestly relation (Hosea 4...
THE UTTER CORRUPTION OF THE NATION TRACED TO IRRELIGION. (The text of Hosea 4:15 is hopelessly corrupt. Marti regards Hosea 4:3 as an insertion and Hosea 4:5_ a_ as foreign to their present context.)...
THEY SACRIFICE, &C. Compare Isaiah 1:29, and Isaiah 57:5; Isaiah 57:7; Ezekiel 6:13, and...
Thus the priests have led the way, and the people follow. They have lost the spiritual faculty; a wild impulse to the most sensual idolatry has carried them away....
_upon the tops of the mountains_ -Every high hill and every green tree" are repeatedly mentioned together as the scenes of the popular nature-worship (e.g. 1 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 17:10; Jeremiah 2:20;...
_A GOD THAT CANNOT ANSWER -- HOSEA 4:12-15:_ The children of Israel were asking counsel from their wooden idols and other objects of wood. Their sinful living had lead them to terrible judgment; think...
OAKS— That is to say, the _evergreen oak,_ or _ilex. And elms_] The _acorn-tree,_ or the _common oak._...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDESPIRIT OF IDOLATRY TEXT: Hosea 4:11-14 11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding: 12 My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto t...
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, an...
4:13 daughters-in-law (d-35) Or 'brides,' as Jeremiah 2:32 ....
CONDEMNATION OF THE PRIESTHOOD An arraignment against Israel as a whole, because of all manner of wickedness against God and man. Prophet and priest, who ought to have taught them better, are only to...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 4 THE *LORD ACCUSES ISRAEL V1 People of Israel, listen to the *Lord’s message! The *Lord will argue against the people that liv...
עַל ־רָאשֵׁ֨י הֶ הָרִ֜ים יְזַבֵּ֗חוּ וְ עַל
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
4. "THE CORRUPTION THAT IS THROUGH LUST" Hosea 9:10 CF. Hosea 4:11 Those who at the present time are enforcing among us the revival of a paganism-without the pagan conscience-and exalting licentiousn...
“JOINED TO IDOLS” Hosea 4:11-19 The prophet does not mince his words in describing the morals of his time. We are reminded of Bunyan's words: “My original and inward pollution was my plague. It was a...
In any attempt to analyze and tabulate the teaching in this second division of the Book it must be remembered that the prophetic utterances cannot be treated as verbatim reports. As they here appear,...
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof [is] good: therefore your daughters shall (p) commit whoredo...
The first verse in this paragraph is a very striking scripture. In some of our old Bibles the margin hath it in yet stronger terms; they eat up the excrement of my people, meaning that which is most t...
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 Futility of Sin I. INTRODUCTION A. As we continue the study of Hosea this morning - chapter 4 marks a turn that continues through the rest of the book. 1. Hosea 8:7 a (NASB) Give us a hint as t...
The Prophet shows here more clearly what was the fornication for which he had before condemned the people, — that they worshipped God under trees and on high places. This then is explanatory, for the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 AND 5. In chapter 4 we see that the prophet addresses the whole people together. In Verse 15 (Hosea 4:15) he distinguishes Judah from Israel, warning the fo...
THEY SACRIFICE UPON THE TOPS OF THE MOUNTAINS,.... The highest part of them, nearest to the heavens, where they built their altars to idols, and offered sacrifice unto them, as we often read in Script...
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof [is] good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, a...
_They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains_ The sacrificing upon the mountains and in shady groves was an ancient piece of idolatry, often mentioned and reproved by the prophets. They seem to have...
THE SECOND PART OF THE ACCUSATION...
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, after the manner which they had taken over from the heathen Canaanites, AND BURN INCENSE UPON THE HILLS, in a form of worship which should have been rese...
12-19 The people consulted images, and not the Divine word. This would lead to disorder and sin. Thus men prepare scourges for themselves, and vice is spread through a people. Let not Judah come near...
THEY, both priests and people, SACRIFICE UPON THE TOPS OF THE MOUNTAINS; where their altars were sometimes to God, sometimes to idols: these were the high places, chosen out by themselves, and where t...
Hosea 4:13 sacrifices H2076 (H8762) mountaintops H2022 H7218 incense H6999 (H8762) hills H1389 oaks H437 poplars...
‘They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its shadow is good. Therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your bride...
STRONG WINE AND ILLICIT SEX HAVE TURNED THE PEOPLE'S MINDS SO THAT THEY LOOK TO BITS OF WOOD CONCERNING THEIR FUTURE AND PLAY THE HARLOT ON THE TOPS OF MOUNTAINS AND UNDER SACRED TREES RATHER THAN LOO...
DANIEL; Book of, Introduction, (_ See Scofield) - (Daniel 1:1). _ DANIEL; authorship of Book, (_ See Scofield) - (Daniel 2:4). _ DANIEL; monarchs of his time, ( See Scofield) - ...
CONTENTS: Charges against Israel for their sinfulness, idolatry and ignorance. CHARACTERS: God, Hosea. CONCLUSION: It is a sad and sore judgment for men when God has to say, «let them alone» giving...
Hosea 4:1. _Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel._ Here a new sermon is built upon a new revelation. Hosea 4:2. _Blood toucheth blood,_ as explained in the words preseding, adultery upon a...
_They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills._ BLUSTERING SINNERS That is the bold aspect, that is the public phase; instead of doing all these things, as Ezekiel w...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 4:12 These verses describe breaking God’s laws by following Canaanite religious practices. INQUIRE OF A PIECE OF WOOD. They would ask for guidance from an idol carved out of wood....
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 4:10. ENOUGH] Not be satisfied. LEFT OFF] keeping, observing Jehovah (Zechariah 11:11). All other means of increase failed. Polygamy against the law, and will bring the curse o...
EXPOSITION HOSEA 4:1 A new and distinct division of the book commences with this fourth chapter and continues till the close. What had previously been presented in figure and symbol is now plainly an...
Now we enter into the second part of the book of Hosea, where he declares: HEAR the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land (Hsa Hosea...
2 Samuel 12:10; Amos 7:17; Ezekiel 16:16; Ezekiel 16:25; Ezekiel
Good — Convenient for the sacrificers. Shall commit whoredom — Shall dishonour themselves, and their families, with fornicators....