Hawker's Poor man's commentary
Hosea 13:3
All these figures are strong and expressive, to show the transiency and emptiness of all things in man's strength, or man's attainment.
All these figures are strong and expressive, to show the transiency and emptiness of all things in man's strength, or man's attainment.
Verse Hosea 13:3. _THEREFORE THEY SHALL BE AS THE MORNING CLOUD - AS THE_ _EARLY DEW - AS THE CHAFF - AS THE SMOKE_] _Four_ things, most easy to be driven about and dissipated, are employed here to sh...
THEREFORE THEY SHALL BE AS THE MORNING CLOUD - There is often a fair show of prosperity, out of God; but it is short-lived. “The third generation,” says the pagan proverb, “never enjoys the ill-gotten...
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 ...
DEW. Hebrew. _t_ al. the night mist. See note on "Zion", Psalms 133:3. THE. a. FLOOR. threshingfloor. CHIMNEY. window, or opening. No word for chimney in Hebrew...
Israel signed his own death-warrant when he lapsed into Baal-worship. Foolish as it is to -kiss calves", they persist in the practice. Therefore the nation can but drift away, like cloud, or chaff, or...
_the early dew_, &c. Rather, THE NIGHT-MIST THAT EARLY PASSETH AWAY. See on Hosea 6:4. _as the chaff … the floor_ A familiar figure, but here expressed with more fulness than usual. The point of it is...
_ISRAEL SINNED MORE AND MORE -- HOSEA 13:1-4:_ There was a time when the leaders in Israel spoke for God and the people showed great respect for Him. As long as Israel had respect for God she enjoyed...
REQUITINGGOD WILL PUNISH TEXT: Hosea 13:1-8 1 When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died, 2 And now they sin more and more, and ha...
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney. THEREFORE...
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...
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....
EARLY DEW... — Better, dew _that early passeth away, like chaff that flies in a whirlwind from the threshing-floor, and like smoke from the window_ (_i.e.,_ the lattice beneath the roof through which...
לָכֵ֗ן יִֽהְיוּ֙ כַּ עֲנַן ־בֹּ֔קֶר וְ כַ
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...
_Away. Chap. vi. 4. --- Chimney, or hole, at the side or top of the room. (Calmet) --- Hebrew arubba, (Haydock) means also "a locust," as the Septuagint render it, though here it affords no sense._...
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 employs here four similitudes to show the condition of Israel. How much soever they flourished for a time, and might be deemed happy, their state would yet be fading and evanescent. _They...
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...
THEREFORE THEY SHALL BE AS THE MORNING CLOUD,.... Which, however promising it is, soon disappears when the sun is risen; signifying that the idolatrous Israelites, king, priests, and people, should be...
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff [that] is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney. Ver. 3. _...
_Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud_, &c. All the comparisons in this verse are intended to express a quick destruction, or that they should soon come to nothing. _Yet I am the Lord thy God_...
GOD'S BENEFITS SCORNED BY ISRAEL...
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, the vapor which arises at dawn, AND AS THE EARLY DEW THAT PASSETH AWAY, Cf Hosea 6:4, AS THE CHAFF THAT IS DRIVEN WITH THE WHIRLWIND OUT OF THE FLOOR, bei...
1-8 While Ephraim kept up a holy fear of God, and worshipped Him in that fear, so long he was very considerable. When Ephraim forsook God, and followed idolatry, he sunk. Let the men that sacrifice k...
THEREFORE; for these sins in multiplied idolatries and trusting to idols. THEY, Ephraim, his king, his captains, his fortresses, and aids, shall be, in the day of the Assyrian invasion, suddenly, easi...
Hosea 13:3 morning H1242 cloud H6051 early H7925 (H8688) dew H2919 away H1980 (H8802) chaff H4671 off...
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...
‘Therefore they will be as the morning cloud, And as the dew which passes early away, As the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, And as the smoke out of the chimney....
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...
Hosea was full of complaints against the people of God; for, in his day, they had very sadly wandered from the Lord. They had even forgotten him. In Hosea's prophecy, we have the plaintive voice of a...
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...
_As the morning cloud. .. early dew. .. as the chaff. .. as the smoke out of the chimney._ THE LIFE OF THE WICKED I. It is deceptive. “Like the morning cloud.” In Palestine and countries of the same...
SMOKE Smoke out of the chimney. Hosea 13:3. That is a thing that nobody likes. Many people are fond of smoke out of a pipe, but nobody cares for smoke out of the chimney especially when it is in the...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 13:1 The man-made gods that Israel worships are nothing compared to their actual God, who is living, active, and true to his word. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.] HOSEA 13:1. EPH.] formerly enjoyed great distinction in Israel. Men listened with fear and trembling to him (Job 29:21); he exalted himself, secured the rule among the tribes, and the...
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...
Daniel 2:35; Hosea 6:4; Isaiah 17:13; Isaiah 41:15; Isaiah 41:16;...