Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Hosea 13:10
Verse Hosea 13:10. Give me a king and princes?] Referring to the time in which they cast off the Divine theocracy and chose Saul in the place of Jehovah.
Verse Hosea 13:10. Give me a king and princes?] Referring to the time in which they cast off the Divine theocracy and chose Saul in the place of Jehovah.
I WILL BE THY KING - (literally, “I would be” thy King) Where is any other that, etc. A better translation would be: “Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities; and thy judges, of...
CHAPTER 13 EPHRAIM'S RUIN AND JUDGMENT _ 1. Ruin and judgment (Hosea 13:1) _ 2. It is thy destruction, O Israel! (Hosea 13:9) 3. Mercy to follow wrath (Hosea 13:12) 4. The desolation of the nearin...
HOSEA 13:1 (= Heb. Hosea 13:1 to Hosea 14:1). FACILIS DESCENSUS AVERNO. Israel has persistently lapsed into the Baal-worship and idolatry, and therefore shall be swept away as the chaff ...
I WILL BE THY KING. Where is thy king? Hebrew. _'ehi_. where, as in Hosea 13:14 twice; _'ehi_ is separated from the following word "king" by the accent _zakeph,_ and connected with _'epho'_. now. It t...
An alternation of cries expressive of the contending thoughts and emotions of the tender-hearted but truthful prophet. The punishment is inevitable; yea, it is begun. Yet if Israel would only repent!...
_ISRAEL DESTROYED HERSELF -- HOSEA 13:9-12:_ Suicide is a horrible thing. What Israel had done spiritually was nothing short of nation spiritual suicide. They had turned from God to idolatry and destr...
O ISRAEL, &C.— _O Israel, I will destroy thee, and who shall bring thee help?_ Hosea 13:10. _Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities? And thy judges,_ &c. Houbigant....
REQUITINGISRAEL WILL PERISH TEXT: Hosea 13:9-16 9 It is thy destruction, O Israel, that thou art against me, against thy help. 10 Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities? a...
I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? I WILL BE THY KING: WHERE - rather, as margin and the Se...
ISRAEL'S IDOLATRY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES The main thought of this c., which is a continuation of the last (cp. Hosea 12:9; Hosea 13:4), is the folly of Israel incurring the enmity of God, who had shown...
1.. KING] RV 'Where now is thy king?' What use would the king and princes whom they had so clamoured for be in their trouble?...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 13 FINAL *JUDGEMENT ON ISRAEL V1 *Ephraim made himself very important in Israel. *Ephraim spoke and people shook with fear....
The rendering should be,_ Where, pray, is thy king, that he may save thee?_ &c. The original demand for a king who should be a visible token to Israel of protection against their surrounding foes was...
אֱהִ֤י מַלְכְּךָ֙ אֵפֹ֔וא וְ יֹושִֽׁיעֲךָ֖ בְּ...
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...
TO OPPOSE GOD IS DESTRUCTION Hosea 13:1-14 Again, a very tender chapter. The lips that speak with trembling betray the heart that God can exalt. But when we turn to Baal, the emblem of self-confiden...
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...
Turning from this main line of the divine message, we now examine the prophet's interpolations. These set forth the history of Israel indicating their relation to Jehovah, and pronounce judgment. They...
(g) I will be thy king: where [is any other] that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? (g) I am all one; (James 1:17)....
_Princes. It was on this pretext that a king was demanded, 1 Kings viii. 20. Will any now save you? (Menochius)_...
All that is here said may be considered as the natural effect of sin, which self-destroyers bring upon themselves. Here is an allusion perhaps to Israel's history, in the case of Saul, king of Israel,...
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...
He afterwards more fully confirms the same by saying, _I will be; _and then he says, _Thy king, where is he? _By saying, ‘I will be,’ God retreats what he had before declared, that he would always be...
Chapter 13 is the perpetual conflict of the affections and the judgment of God. The thought of their sin calls forth the announcement of the necessary and inevitable judgment. As soon as the judgment...
I WILL BE THY KING, WHERE [IS ANY OTHER] THAT MAY SAVE THEE IN ALL THY CITIES?.... Governor, Protector, and Defender; and so confirming what is before said, that their help was in him: or, as the Targ...
I will be thy king: where [is any other] that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? Ver. 10. _I will be thy king_] Thine eternal King, so Pa...
_I will be thy king_ I would have been thy king to save and govern thee, but thou refusedst me in both respects: yet I will be thy king to judge me and punish thee. The LXX. and all the ancient versio...
I will be thy King, so the Lord's offer still holds good; WHERE IS ANY OTHER THAT MAY SAVE THEE IN ALL THY CITIES? Who else could really deliver them from the power of the Assyrians?. AND THY JUDGES,...
THE RETRIBUTION COMING...
I WILL...: rather, Where is thy king?...
9-16 Israel had destroyed himself by his rebellion; but he could not save himself, his help was from the Lord only. This may well be applied to the case of spiritual redemption, from that lost state...
I WILL BE THY KING; I would have been thy King to govern and save thee, but thou refusedst me in both; yet I will he thy King to punish thee. I will not lose my right and honour by thy rebellious carr...
Hosea 13:10 will H165 King H4428 Where H645 save H3467 (H8686) cities H5892 judges H8199 (H8802) said...
‘Where now is your king, That he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, Give me a king and princes?' Let them consider that their king and princes have already been sna...
BECAUSE EPHRAIM HAVE OFFENDED SO DEEPLY, AND HAVE REJECTED THEIR DELIVERER, JUDGMENT UPON THEM IS INEVITABLE (HOSEA 13:1). The crimes of Israel are again laid bear. They are guilty of idolatry (Hosea...
Hosea 13:1. _When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel;_ When we are little in our own esteem, when we are full of fears concerning ourselves, when we dare not think of boasting, the...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Israel's ruin. Ultimate blessing in the kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Worldly prosperity, which feeds men's pride, makes them forgetful of God, a...
Hosea 13:2. _Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves._ The readings vary here. The LXX, “You must sacrifice men, for there are no more calves.” The Vulgate Latin reads, “Sacrifice the men that wors...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 13:9 Ephraim, by its stubborn refusal to return to the Lord, rejects the only hope that God offers. Three figures of judgment are pronounced in these verses: the incompetent king ...
CRITICAL NOTES.] HOSEA 13:10. WHERE] thy king to save when Assyrians attack cities? Where thy judges who surround the king and help to administer right? God gave and God punished them through a king....
EXPOSITION The first eight verses of this chapter form the premises from which the prophet, in the ninth verse, draws the conclusion that the conduct of Israel had been suicidal; that they had brought...
Now when Ephraim was speaking trembling (Hsa Hosea 13:1), That is, when Ephraim was not proud and exalted, but recognized their own weakness and all, then the LORD exalted himself in Israel; but whe...
1 Kings 12:20; 1 Samuel 12:11; 1 Samuel 12:12; 1 Samuel 8:19; 1
Thy king — I would have been thy king to govern and save thee, but thou refusedst me in both: yet I will be thy king to punish thee. Thy judges — Where are they now? And princes — Necessary to assist...