Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Hosea 9:12
Verse Hosea 9:12. Though they bring up their children] And were they even to have children, I would bereave them of them; for, when I depart from them, they shall have all manner of wretchedness and wo.
Verse Hosea 9:12. Though they bring up their children] And were they even to have children, I would bereave them of them; for, when I depart from them, they shall have all manner of wretchedness and wo.
THOUGH THEY BRING UP CHILDREN - God had threatened to deprive them of children, in every stage before or at their birth. Now, beyond this, he tells them, as to those who should escape this sentence, h...
CHAPTER 9:10-11:11 RETROSPECT, ISRAEL'S FAILURE AND RUIN _ 1. Israel once beloved, now fugitive wanderers (Hosea 9:10) _ 2. Their guilt and punishment (Hosea 10:1) 3. Exhortation and rebuke (Hosea...
THE NEMESIS OF AN IMPURE WORSHIP (_cf. Hosea 4:11_). Israel in unspoilt youth had appeared to Yahweh like grapes in the wilderness, but at the very first of the Canaanite shrines which they reached, B...
THOUGH THEY BRING UP, &C Not "inappropriate after Hosea 9:11 ", but is part of the contrast commenced there. CHILDREN. sons. WILL. BEREAVE THEM. Ref to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:22.Deuteronomy 28:41
_ISRAEL'S GLORY FLEW AWAY -- HOSEA 9:11-14_ : The glory of Israel would fly away like a bird. They would no longer be a growing and productive nation. Their women would no longer be able to give birth...
DISCOURSE: 1166 MISERY OF A DESERTED PEOPLE Hosea 9:12. _Woe also to them when I depart from them!_ THERE is nothing so essential to our happiness as the Divine presence. With that, we may smile at a...
REPROVINGISRAEL FOLLOWED BAAL TEXT: Hosea 9:10-17 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-figs in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-pe...
Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! THOUGH THEY BRING UP THEIR CHILDREN, YET WILL I BER...
EXILE IS AT HAND This prophecy appears to have been written in a time of rejoicing over a good harvest and vintage. Israel need not rejoice, says the prophet, with the wild joy of the heathen. Their...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 9 HOSEA TELLS ISRAEL THAT GOD WILL PUNISH HER V1 People of Israel, do not be happy. Do not shout for joy like the other nations...
כִּ֤י אִם ־יְגַדְּלוּ֙ אֶת ־בְּנֵיהֶ֔ם וְ שִׁ
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...
“WANDERERS AMONG THE NATIONS” Hosea 9:10-17 At the Exodus the love and thanks of Israel were as delightful to God as grapes in the desert or as the first ripe figs. But they gave themselves up to th...
The judgment was then described in detail. Its first note was of the death of joy. Israel could not find her joy like other peoples. She had gone whoring from God, loving hire on every threshing floor...
_When. Septuagint Theodotion, "my flesh is taken from them," which Theodoret, Lyranus, &c., explain of the incarnation; but Aquila, &c., agree with the Vulgate which is more natural. (Calmet)_...
Reader! do not fail still to pursue the subject with an eye to the Lord's grace, for the whole Chapter is full of it. The Lord, to whose comprehensive view, all things past, present, and future, form...
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...
XII. HOSEA 9:7 (NASB) THE DAYS OF PUNISHMENT HAVE COME, THE DAYS OF RETRIBUTION HAVE COME; LET ISRAEL KNOW [THIS]! THE PROPHET IS A FOOL, THE INSPIRED MAN IS DEMENTED, BECAUSE OF THE GROSSNESS OF YOUR...
He then adds, _Though they shall bring up children, I will yet exterminate them, so that they shall not be men, _or, _before they grow up, _as some expound the words. The meaning is, that though Ephra...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9, 10, AND 11. In CHAPTER 9 we have here that touching mixture of affection and judgment which we find again and again in this prophet. Ephraim should not rem...
THOUGH THEY BRING UP THEIR CHILDREN,.... Though this be the case of some, as to be conceived, carried in the womb to the full time, and be born, and brought up to a more adult age, and appear very pro...
Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, [that there shall] not [be] a man [left]: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! Ver. 12. _Though they bring up children, yet wil...
_As for Ephraim_, or, _Ephraim! their glory shall fly away like a bird_ What they make their boast of so much shall depart from them. The fruitfulness of their women seems to be the thing here spoken...
Though they bring up their children, those whom the Lord would still permit them to have, YET WILL I BEREAVE THEM, depriving them of their children by death, THAT THERE SHALL NOT BE A MAN LEFT, Cf Deu...
THE CORRUPTION OF ISRAEL AND ITS CONSEQUENCES...
11-17. God departs from a people, or from a person, when he withdraws his goodness and mercy from them; and when the Lord is departed, what can the creature do? Even though, for the present, good thi...
Or suppose neither of these, but that their children live, grow up and come to some maturity, yet God, provoked by their sins, will deprive them of their children by famine; or by civil wars, which we...
Hosea 9:12 up H1431 (H8762) children H1121 bereave H7921 (H8765) man H120 woe H188 depart H5493 ...
‘Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, so that not a man will be left. Yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!' And even though they seek to bring up the children that t...
EPHRAIM'S FUTURE IS BLEAK (HOSEA 9:11). As a result of their sinfulness Ephraim's future is depicted as being very bleak. Their wealth and prosperity (their ‘glory' - compare Isaiah 17:3) will fly awa...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Israel's coming distress because of sin. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Joy is a forbidden fruit to those who have broken covenant with God, until they return...
Hosea 9:1. _Rejoice not, oh Israel,_ with the shouts of harvest, and the songs of the vintage, as all heathen nations have done, and have ascribed their harvests to their idols; for God was about to d...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 9:11. THEIR GLORY] Children the glory of parents, sterility a reproach. EPH.]= fruitfulness (Genesis 41:52, marg), which characteristic should cease; licentious worship would di...
EXPOSITION HOSEA 9:1 Contain a warning against security arising from temporary prosperity. HOSEA 9:1 REJOICE NOT, O ISRAEL, FOR JOY, AS OTHER PEOPLE. The occasion on which the prophet penned this s...
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have gone a whoring from your God, you have loved a reward upon every cornfloor. The floor in the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wi...
1 Samuel 16:14; 1 Samuel 28:15; 1 Samuel 28:16; 2 Kings 17:18;...
Not a man left — There shall be a total extirpation of them. When I depart — To compleat their misery, I will depart from them. It is sad to lose our children, but sadder to lose our God....