Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Hosea 11:7
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though (e) they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt [him].
(e) That is, the Prophets.
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though (e) they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt [him].
(e) That is, the Prophets.
Verse Hosea 11:7. _THOUGH THEY CALLED THEM TO THE MOST HIGH_] _Newcome_ is better: "And though _they call on him together because of the yoke,_ _he will not raise it_. He shall receive no _refreshment...
AND MY PEOPLE ARE BENT TO BACKSLIDING FROM ME - Literally, “are hung to it!” as we say, “a man’s whole being “hangs” on a thing.” A thing “hung to” or “on” another, sways to and fro within certain lim...
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...
BENT TO BACKSLIDING. Compare Hosea 4:16. THOUGH THEY CALLED THEM, &C.. though they call upon the Most High. MOST HIGH. Hebrew. _'al._ NONE AT ALL WOULD EXALT HIM. He shall not altogether lift them...
_And my people_, &c. This verse gives the ground of the judgment; -and" = -for", -in fact." The reference to -backsliding" (lit. turning, or turning about) should be taken in connexion with Hosea 14:4...
_ISRAEL WAS BENT TO BACKSLIDING -- HOSEA 11:7-9:_ God's people were bent on or inclined towards backsliding. They were determined to reject the Almighty for gods that they thought were stronger the He...
DISCOURSE: 1171 GOD’S COMPASSION Hosea 11:7. My people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt him: [yet] how shall I give thee up, Ephraim?...
MY PEOPLE, &C.— _My people delay returning to me: though they have been called upwards, yet none at all would raise himself up._...
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...
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him. AND MY PEOPLE ARE BENT TO BACKSLIDING - not only do they backslide, and that t...
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...
THOUGH.. _him_] Though they formally called on God, they do not really exalt Him in their hearts. 8. Hosea's feeling again turns to tenderness. How can the loving Father bear to chastise His people a...
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....
No imagery is used, as of unfaithful wife, recalcitrant heifer, or furnace-piling baker, but homely literal commonplace. The people were called by sufficient means to the highest worship, but they wer...
וְ עַמִּ֥י תְלוּאִ֖ים לִ מְשֽׁוּבָתִ֑י וְ אֶל
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...
_Off, for a long time; and indeed Israel never recovered its former state, after the captivity. (Haydock) --- Then they became more docile. Hebrew is very ambiguous. (Calmet)_...
We have here the sad account of Israel's requital of the Lord's kindness. In which Reader, we shall as sadly mistake the subject if we overlook in Israel's history our own. As Israel threatened to ret...
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...
This verse is variously rendered. Some explain the word תלואים, _teluaim, _as signifying “perplexed;” as though the Prophet had said, that the people would suffer a just punishment through being anxio...
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...
AND MY PEOPLE ARE BENT TO BACKSLIDING FROM ME,.... There is a propensity in thorn to it, through prevailing corruption in them; they are inclined unto it, the bias of their minds is that way; they are...
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt [him]. Ver. 7. _My people are bent to backsliding from me_] They have a principle of a...
_My people are bent to backsliding from me_ Many versions render this clause, _Nevertheless, my people are in suspense_ (or hesitate) _about returning to me; though they called them to the Most High_...
THE PROOF OF JEHOVAH'S LOVE...
And My people are bent to backsliding from Me, they were ever inclined to fall away and to reject the Lord; THOUGH THEY, the prophets, CALLED THEM TO THE MOST HIGH, pointing them upwards to the one Ro...
NONE AT ALL WOULD EXALT HIM: _ Heb._ together they exalted not...
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....
MY PEOPLE; yet God owneth them for his, he had not cast them quite off; or since they call themselves his, he is willing to encourage them by owning all in them that looks toward him. ARE BENT TO BACK...
Hosea 11:7 people H5971 bent H8511 (H8803) backsliding H4878 call H7121 (H8799) High H5920 all H3162 exalt...
And my people are bent on backsliding from me, Though they call them to on high, None at all will exalt him.' This was all necessary and certain because of the fact was that the people were intent o...
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...
_My people are bent to backsliding from Me._ RELIGIOUS DECLENSION How singular is the moral condition of a believer bent on backsliding. It is not a mere vacillation between God and mammon, holiness...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 11:5 THEY SHALL NOT RETURN... BUT ASSYRIA. An alliance with Egypt will not save them from Assyria. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES. HOSEA 11:7. BENT] Lit. hung suspended on backsliding, “impaled or fastened upon apostasy as upon a stake, so that it cannot get loose” [_Keil_]. NONE] Lit. together they exalted not,...
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...
2 Chronicles 30:1; Amos 5:14; Amos 5:15; Amos 5:4; Hosea 14:4;...
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 — The prophets. None at all — Scarce any one would hearken and obey....