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Verse 16. _THEY RETURN_, BUT _NOT TO THE MOST HIGH_] They go to their
idols.
_THEY ARE LIKE A DECEITFUL BOW_] Which, when it is _reflexed_, in
order to be strung, suddenly _springs back_ into its _q...
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THEY RETURN, BUT NOT TO THE MOST HIGH - God exhorts by Jeremiah, “If
thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return unto Me” Jeremiah
4:1. They changed, whenever they did change, with a feigned,
h...
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CHAPTER 7
The Moral Depravity of Israel
_ 1. Their moral depravity (Hosea 7:1) _
2. Mingling with heathen nations (Hosea 7:8)
Hosea 7:1. All the gracious efforts of the Lord to heal Israel
resulted...
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HOSEA 7:8 TO HOSEA 8:3. POLITICAL DECAY THE OUTWARD SIGN OF ISRAEL'S
MORAL DECAY. The attempts to cure national ills and secure safety by
foreign aid, instead of by turning to Yahweh, are foredoomed t...
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TO THE MOST HIGH. to Him Who is on high. Compare Hosea 11:7.
A DECEITFUL BOW. That disappoints the user, and cannot be depended
upon. Compare Psalms 78:57.
FOR. because of.
DERISION. ridicule....
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_They return, but not to the most High_ Rather, THEY TURN (i.e. shift
or change), BUT NOT UPWARDS (as Hosea 11:7). They are not content with
passive complaints; they have reached a turning-point in th...
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_ISRAEL REBELLED MORE AND MORE -- HOSEA 7:14-16:_ The rebellion of
Israel against God has brought on devastation. God was their rightful
king and ruler. He had always ruled fairly and with their good...
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THEY RETURN, BUT NOT TO THE MOST HIGH— _They have endeavoured again
to be without yoke: They are become like a deceitful bow: Their
princes shall fall by the sword. For the wantonness of their tongue,...
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ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDELOVE OF SIN
TEXT: Hosea 7:8-16
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Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not
turned.
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Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea...
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They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow:
their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue:
this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
THEY RE...
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CORRUPTION OF THE COURT
In this chapter the tone again becomes despondent. How can Israel be
saved when her iniquity is so deep, so glaring, so obstinate? Samaria
is especially instanced as the centr...
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THEY RETURN, etc.] Their turning is ever farther away from God. THEIR
PRINCES SHALL FALL] As a punishment for their insolence they would
perish amidst the derision of the very people whose aid they ha...
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THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING
HOSEA
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 7
V1 I want to heal my people Israel!
Then people will know that *Ephraim has *sinned....
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יָשׁ֣וּבוּ ׀ לֹ֣א עָ֗ל הָיוּ֙ כְּ
קֶ֣שֶׁת רְמ
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THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL
Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
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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...
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INIQUITY UNCOVERED
Hosea 7:1-16
The last clause of the previous chapter belongs to this. God desired
to turn aside the captivity of His people and to heal Israel, but His
pleading was unavailing beca...
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The prophet then declared more particularly the true state of affairs.
The divine desire to heal was frustrated by the pollution and the
people's persistent ignoring of God. Hosea graphically describe...
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They return, [but] not to the most High: they are like a deceitful
bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage (n) of their
tongue: this [shall be] their derision in the land of Egypt.
(n...
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_Returned, imitating Apis, the folly of Egypt. They have repeatedly
followed idols in Egypt, and in the desert, under Jeroboam, Achab,
Jehu, &c. --- Deceitful. Septuagint, "bent." Theodoret reads,
"un...
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We have here a continuation of the same subject, namely, the Lord's
remonstrance with Israel. But I pray the Reader to observe, how many
sweet and gracious expressions of our God are mingled with his...
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REFLECTIONS
READER! let this Chapter, as many other Chapter s of the same nature
and doctrine are highly calculated for, lead your heart and mine,
under the teachings and influences of God the Holy Gh...
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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...
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IX. HOSEA 7:8-9 (NASB) EPHRAIM MIXES HIMSELF WITH THE NATIONS; EPHRAIM
HAS BECOME A CAKE NOT TURNED.
9 STRANGERS DEVOUR HIS STRENGTH, YET HE DOES NOT KNOW [IT]; GRAY HAIRS
ALSO ARE SPRINKLED ON HIM,...
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The Prophet again assails the perverse wickedness of Israel, and also
their fraud and perfidiousness. Hence he says that they feigned some
sort of repentance, but it was nothing else than false; for t...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7.
Chapter 6 calls forth a touching address from the prophet, in which he
entreats the people to return to Jehovah. Faith has always this
resource, beca...
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THEY RETURN, [BUT] NOT TO THE MOST HIGH,.... To Egypt, and not to
Jerusalem, and the temple there, and the worship of it; to their
idols, and not to him whose name alone is Jehovah, and is the most
Hi...
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They return, [but] not to the most High: they are like a deceitful
bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their
tongue: this [shall be] their derision in the land of Egypt.
Ver. 1...
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_Though I have bound_, &c. Though, after bringing them low, I have
given them new strength and vigour; _yet do they imagine mischief
against me_ Yet they are continually devising some new idolatrous
i...
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They return, but not to the Most High, or, "upwards," with their faces
turned to His power alone; THEY ARE LIKE A DECEITFUL BOW, whose string
has lost its tenseness and cannot carry the arrow to its m...
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HYPOCRISY REBUKED...
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8-16 Israel was as a cake not turned, half burnt and half dough, none
of it fit for use; a mixture of idolatry and of the worship of
Jehovah. There were tokens of approaching ruin, as grey hairs are...
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THEY RETURN; they sometimes have given some signs of returning, as
when Jehu destroyed Baal, or Hoshea gave liberty to Israel to go up to
Jerusalem (if it be true which some affirm of him); and if I w...
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Hosea 7:16 return H7725 (H8799) High H5920 treacherous H7423 bow H7198
princes H8269 fall H5307 (H8799) sword...
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EPHRAIM (ISRAEL) ARE PICTURED AS A HAPLESS DOVE FLUTTERING BETWEEN
EGYPT AND ASSYRIA AS THEY ENDEAVOUR TO AVOID YHWH'S NET (HOSEA 7:11).
Ephraim are now depicted as being willing to do anything rather...
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‘They return, but not to on high,
They are like an unreliable bow,
Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue,
This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
Thus it was t...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's response to Israel's, cry, continued. Israel's sad
state.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: If sinful souls are not healed and helped, but perish in
their sin and misery, they cannot...
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Hosea 7:1. _When I would have healed Israel,_ by Jehu's zeal for the
Lord, then the idolatrous priests, like troops of robbers, gathered
round him with lies in their mouth, and persuaded him to retain...
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_They return, but not to the Most High._
PARTIAL REPENTANCE
Sin, in its worst, forms, was rampant in the land, and the very rulers
rejoiced in the wickedness of their people. The cause of all this
so...
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HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 7:4 Hosea compares Israel to an oven (vv. Hosea
7:4), a half-baked cake (vv. Hosea 7:8), a silly dove (vv....
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HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 7:16 EGYPT here represents all foreign powers
but refers specifically to Israel’s time of slavery in Egypt (Exodus
1:1). Like other historical references in...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
HOSEA 7:15. BOUND] Weakened and relaxed, an image from surgery
(_chastened_, marg.). “Instructing the arms, according to the
analogy of Psalms 18:35, is equivalent to showing where an...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter may be divided into three sections. In the first section,
including Hosea 7:1, the prophet reproves with much but deserved
severity the depraved morals of king and princes. In...
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The Lord continues His response to them.
When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was
discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood;
and the thief comes in...
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2 Peter 2:8; Ezekiel 23:32; Ezekiel 36:20; Hosea 11:7; Hosea 6:4;...
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Not to the most high — What shew soever of repentance was among
them, yet they never throughly repented. A deceitful bow — Tho' they
seemed bent for, and aiming at the mark, yet like a weak bow they
c...