Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Hosea 11:2
[As] they called them, so they (b) went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
(b) They rebelled and went a contrary way when the Prophets called them to repentance.
[As] they called them, so they (b) went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
(b) They rebelled and went a contrary way when the Prophets called them to repentance.
AS THEY CALLED THEM, SO THEY WENT FROM THEM - The prophet changes his tone, no longer speaking of that one first call of God to Israel as a whole, whereby He brought out Israel as one man, His one son...
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 DIVINE FATHER'S LOVE FOR ISRAEL. In Israel's youth Yahweh loved him, and called him from Egypt to be His son, but he proved disloyal, sacrificing to the Baalim (Hosea 11:1 f.). Yet it was Yahweh w...
THEY. The callers: i.e. the prophets, &c. who called to them. THEM. The Septuagint and Syriac read "Me". THEY. Israel. SACRIFICED. kept sacrificing. Compare Hosea 2:13. Hos 13:2. 2 Kings 17:16....
_As they called them_, &c. Or, THE MORE THEY CALLED THEM, &c. (comp. Hosea 4:7). Since Israel disobeyed the first call by Moses, prophets were sent to repeat the call, but their preaching only seemed...
_GOD LOVED AND PROTECTED ISRAEL -- HOSEA 11:1-3:_ God said, "When Israel was a child, I loved him, and I called my son out of Egypt." When Israel was a young nation it was a matter of history that God...
AS THEY CALLED THEM— _As I called them, so they went from me._ Houbigant. _GRAVEN IMAGES_— We read frequently, in our English bibles, of graven images, and of molten images: and the words are become...
RECOGNIZING GOD'S COMPASSION REMONSTRATING TEXT: Hosea 11:1-9 1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. 2 The more the prophets called them, the more they went...
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. AS THEY CALLED THEM - "they", namely, monitors sent by me. "Called," in , suggests th...
11:2 called (d-3) See ver. 7, i.e. the prophets called....
THE INGRATITUDE OF ISRAEL Jehovah had been like a tender father and a kind master to Israel from the first, yet had they ever rejected Him and turned to idols. He cannot bear the thought of punishing...
JACOB] as before used to introduce the personal history of the Patriarch, from which Hosea seeks to draw an analogous lesson for the people. Jacob had begun life by cunningly supplanting his brother,...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 11 ISRAEL HAS FORGOTTEN THE *LORD V1 ‘I, (the *Lord), loved Israel when he was a child. I called my son out of Egypt....
AS THEY (_i.e.,_ the prophets) CALLED THEM, SO THEY (Israel) WENT FROM THEM. — Sought to avoid the voice and presence of the men of God....
קָרְא֖וּ לָהֶ֑ם כֵּ֚ן הָלְכ֣וּ מִ פְּנֵיהֶ֔ם...
THE FATHERHOOD AND HUMANITY OF GOD Hosea 11:1 FROM the thick jungle of Hosea's travail, the eleventh chapter breaks like a high and open mound. The prophet enjoys the first of his two clear visions-...
“BANDS OF LOVE” Hosea 11:1-11 This is a very tender chapter, full of moving appeals. God looks back on the happy, blessed past, as a fond parent on the innocent childhood of a son who is now causing...
The third cycle of the prophecy sets forth the love which Jehovah had for His people, notwithstanding their sin. This section sets forth Jehovah's love toward His sinning people, and, for the most par...
_They called: viz., Moses and Aaron called: but they went away after other gods, and would not hear. (Challoner) --- Septuagint, "As I called them back, or (repeatedly; Greek: metekalesa. Grabe has, ...
I beg the Reader, as a further confirmation to what I have observed in the first verse, that the Lord by his servant the Prophet, is here speaking of them, and not as before of him. Whereas, had the f...
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 Prophet now repeats the ingratitude of the people in neglecting to keep in mind their redemption. The word, “called,” is here to be taken in a different sense. For God effectually called, as they...
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...
[AS] THEY CALLED THEM, SO THEY WENT FROM THEM,.... That is, the prophets of the Lord, the true prophets, called Israel to the worship and service of God; but they turned a deaf ear to them, and their...
Hosea 11:2 [As] they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. Ver. 2. _As they called them_] _i.e._ As the prophets and ministers (whose...
_As they called them, so_, &c. Or, _The more they called them_, or, _they were called, so much the more they went from him;_ that is, the more earnestly the prophets called upon them to cleave steadfa...
THE PROOF OF JEHOVAH'S LOVE...
As they, the prophets, CALLED THEM, with the Lord's tender invitation to follow the way of salvation, SO THEY, the children of Israel, WENT FROM THEM, turning away from the path of deliverance which w...
1-7 When Israel were weak and helpless as children, foolish and froward as children, then God loved them; he bore them as the nurse does the sucking child, nourished them, and suffered their manners....
AS THEY; Moses and Aaron, and other prophets, and holy, zealous judges and priests, as Samuel, &c. CALLED; advised, persuaded, entreated, and urged by exhortations. THEM; the whole house of Israel, an...
‘The more they called them, The more they went from them, They sacrificed to the Baalim, And burned incense to graven images.' But it is made clear that Israel in fact never came out of Egypt in th...
YHWH DESCRIBES HOW HE HAD CALLED HIS SON (ISRAEL) OUT OF EGYPT AND WATCHED OVER HIM AS A FAITHFUL FATHER, TRAINING HIM IN THE RIGHT WAY, ONLY FOR HIS SON'S HEART TO REMAIN IN EGYPT SO THAT HE WOULD IN...
Hosea 11:1. _When Israel was a child,_ When the nation was yet young, and had scarcely started on its march among the peoples of the earth: «When Israel was a child,» Hosea 11:1. _Then I loved him,...
Hosea 11:1. _When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt._ God remembers what he did for us when we were young; and sin against him is much aggravated by his long kindne...
Hosea 11:1. _When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt._ God's love was very early love. He began with the nation of Israel when it was a mere handful of men in Egypt....
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. His tender love for Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Though men who have had relationship with God are ripe for ruin because of following their own couns...
Hosea 11:1. _When Israel was a child I loved him._ I led Joseph like a flock, by the hands of Moses and Aaron. I protected him among the kings of Canaan. I fed and multiplied him in Egypt; and when th...
_They sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images._ GRAVEN IMAGES We read frequently of graven images and of molten images, and the words are become so familiar as names of idolatrous...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 11:2 The Lord never stopped loving Israel. Throughout their history, he TAUGHT EPHRAIM (that is, Israel) TO WALK, and he HEALED THEM, as a father does with his chil
CRITICAL NOTES. HOSEA 11:1.] The prophet shows how Israel had repaid God’s love in the past with ingratitude and unfaithfulness. CHILD] “First-born son” (Exodus 4:22), the infancy in Egypt and the wil...
EXPOSITION In Hosea 11:1 Jehovah enumerates the benefits conferred on Israel all along from the time of their departure out of Egypt. But parallel with this enumeration runs the history of Israel's i...
God continues His lament and all. He said, When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt (Hsa Hosea 11:1). Now, this verse has been used in Matthew's gospel as a prophecy...
1 Kings 12:33; 1 Kings 16:31; 1 Kings 16:32; 1 Kings 18:19; 1 Sa
A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF HOSEA Hosea 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As introductory to our study of the Book of Hosea, we propose to show how God wrote His messages in Hosea, as well as by him. There is a ver...
They — Moses and Aaron, and other prophets. Called — Persuaded, intreated, and urged by exhortations, the whole house of Israel. From them — From the prophets counsel and commands. Baalim — In the des...