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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Hosea 12:9

Verse Hosea 12:9. And I - the Lord thy God] I who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, will again make thee to dwell in tabernacles. This appears to be a threatening. I will reduce you to as miserable a state in the land of your captivity, as you often were through your transgressions in the wilderness. This was the opinion of some of the ancients on this verse; and the context requires it to be understood in this way. I do not think that the feast of tabernacles is referred to.

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See also Hosea 12:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND I, THE LORD THY GOD FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT - God, in few words, comprises whole centuries of blessings, all, from the going out of Egypt to that very day, all the miracles in Egypt, in the wildern...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AND I, &C. These verses (9, 10) correspond with Hosea 12:14, and give the cause of the provocation. There is an evident _Ellipsis_, which may be thus supplied: "And [thou forgettest that] I, Jehovah t...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And I_ Rather, FOR I. It is explanatory of the vague hint of an inexorable doom. _thy God from the land of Egypt_ Who is therefore ever ready to help you (Isaiah 46:3), but who will also, if necessa...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND I—WILL YET MAKE, &C.— _I, the Lord thy God, brought thee out of the land of Egypt, till I gave thee such a habitation in tents as thou hast in the days of the solemn feast;_ meaning that of _taber...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast. AND - rather, 'And yet.' I, THAT AM THE LORD THY GOD FROM THE...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AND] RV 'But.' In spite of all this I will not leave you to your evil ways. TABERNACLES] RV 'tents.' Israel had learned nothing since the days in the wilderness. In religion and morality they were st...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TABERNACLES. — The prophet here speaks of Israel’s moral restoration under the form of a return to “the old ideal of simple agricultural life, in which every good gift is received directly from Jehova...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Hosea 12:10]_ וְ אָנֹכִ֛י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ מֵ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And I [that am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in (i) the days of the solemn feast. (i) Seeing you will not acknowledge my benefits, I will bri...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Egypt. At Sinai the covenant between God and Israel was chiefly ratified. The former ceased not to perform the conditions, but the latter repaid him with ingratitude. --- Feast. The people shall be b...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    In the first clause God reproaches the Israelites for having forgotten the benefit of his redemption, the memory of which ought ever to have prevailed and flourished among them. _I yet, _he says, _am...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND I [THAT AM] THE LORD THY GOD FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT,.... Ephraim being so very corrupt in things, both religious and civil, and so very impenitent and impudent, is let alone to suffer the just pun...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I [that am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast. Ver. 9. _And I that am thy Lord God from the land of Egypt_] Th...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt_ From the time I brought thee out of it: _will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles_ That is, in thy habitations, quietly and joyfully, as in festiv...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ANOTHER SERIOUS REPROACH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And I that am the Lord, thy God, from the land of Egypt, where He first revealed the greatness of His mercy toward Israel, WILL YET MAKE THEE TO DWELL IN TABERNACLES AS IN THE DAYS OF THE SOLEMN FEAST...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AND, or but, I the Lord thy God, who forbade thy frauds and gave thee wealth, and am forgotten in both, thou fearest not mine anger and sinnest; thou forgettest that I give thee power to get wealth, a...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 12:9 LORD H3068 God H430 land H776 Egypt H4714 dwell H3427 (H8686) tents H168 days H3117 feast...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘But I am YHWH your God from the land of Egypt, I will yet again make you to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.' In reply YHWH reminded them of Who He was. He was not a comfortable Ca...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast._ THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES AS A TYPE This feast was the yearly remembrance Of God’s miraculous guidance and support of Israel th...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Samuel 7:2; Exodus 20:2; Ezra 3:4; Genesis 25:27; Hebrews 11:9;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    From Egypt — From the time I brought thee out of it. In tabernacles — I have given thee all these blessings and comforts, expressed proverbially in allusion to the joy which they had at the feast of t...

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