Hosea 7:15
What meaning of the hosea 7:15 in the Bible?
What does Hosea 7:15 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me."
What does Hosea 7:15 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me."
Verse 15. _THOUGH I HAVE BOUND AND STRENGTHENED THEIR ARMS_] Whether I dealt with them in _judgment_ or _mercy_, it was all one; in all circumstances they rebelled against me....
THOUGH I HAVE BOUND - Rather, (as in the E. M) “And I have chastened, I have strenghened their arms, and they imagine mischief against Me.” God had tried all ways with them, but it was all one. He cha...
CHAPTER 7 The Moral Depravity of Israel _ 1. Their moral depravity (Hosea 7:1) _ 2. Mingling with heathen nations (Hosea 7:8) Hosea 7:1. All the gracious efforts of the Lord to heal Israel resulted...
HOSEA 7:8 TO HOSEA 8:3. POLITICAL DECAY THE OUTWARD SIGN OF ISRAEL'S MORAL DECAY. The attempts to cure national ills and secure safety by foreign aid, instead of by turning to Yahweh, are foredoomed t...
THOUGH. HAVE BOUND. Though I, even I, have warned (or instructed). Compare Psalms 18:34; Psalms 144:1....
_Though I have bound and strengthened their arms_ Rather, I INDEED HAVE TRAINED AND STRENGTHENED THEIR ARMS. The Israelites had had a proof of this not long since when -Jehovah saw the affliction of I...
_ISRAEL REBELLED MORE AND MORE -- HOSEA 7:14-16:_ The rebellion of Israel against God has brought on devastation. God was their rightful king and ruler. He had always ruled fairly and with their good...
THOUGH I HAVE BOUND, &C.— _But I will chastise them. I strengthened their arms, yet did they,_ &c....
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDELOVE OF SIN TEXT: Hosea 7:8-16 8 Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea...
Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. THOUGH I HAVE BOUND AND STRENGTHENED THEIR ARMS - when I saw their arms as it were relaxed with various dis...
CORRUPTION OF THE COURT In this chapter the tone again becomes despondent. How can Israel be saved when her iniquity is so deep, so glaring, so obstinate? Samaria is especially instanced as the centr...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 7 V1 I want to heal my people Israel! Then people will know that *Ephraim has *sinned. Then people will know about the wicked t...
BOUND. — Should be _instructed._ God has imparted skill and power to fight their enemies. (Comp. Psalms 144:1.) So the grace of the Spirit is often slighted by its recipients....
וַ אֲנִ֣י יִסַּ֔רְתִּי חִזַּ֖קְתִּי זְרֹֽועֹתָ֑ם וְ אֵלַ֖י יְחַשְּׁבוּ ־רָֽע׃...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1; Hosea 9:1; Hosea 10:1; Hosea 11:1; Hosea 12:1; Hosea 13:1;...
INIQUITY UNCOVERED Hosea 7:1-16 The last clause of the previous chapter belongs to this. God desired to turn aside the captivity of His people and to heal Israel, but His pleading was unavailing bec...
The prophet then declared more particularly the true state of affairs. The divine desire to heal was frustrated by the pollution and the people's persistent ignoring of God. Hosea graphically describe...
_Arms. I gave them my laws and power to resist the enemy. (Menochius)_...
We have here a continuation of the same subject, namely, the Lord's remonstrance with Israel. But I pray the Reader to observe, how many sweet and gracious expressions of our God are mingled with his...
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...
IX. HOSEA 7:8-9 (NASB) EPHRAIM MIXES HIMSELF WITH THE NATIONS; EPHRAIM HAS BECOME A CAKE NOT TURNED. 9 STRANGERS DEVOUR HIS STRENGTH, YET HE DOES NOT KNOW [IT]; GRAY HAIRS ALSO ARE SPRINKLED ON HIM,...
God again reproaches the Israelites for having in a base manner abused his goodness and forbearance. Some consider the verb יסר, _isar, _as meaning, “to chastise,” because God had disciplined the Isra...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7. Chapter 6 calls forth a touching address from the prophet, in which he entreats the people to return to Jehovah. Faith has always this resource, beca...
THOUGH I HAVE BOUND [AND] STRENGTHENED THEIR ARMS,.... As a surgeon sets a broken arm and swathes and binds it, and so restores it to its former strength, or at least to a good degree of strength agai...
Though I have bound [and] strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. Ver. 15. _Though I have bound and strengthened their arms_] _Quum ego erudivi,_ so Pagnine, Polanus, and ot...
_Though I have bound_, &c. Though, after bringing them low, I have given them new strength and vigour; _yet do they imagine mischief against me_ Yet they are continually devising some new idolatrous i...
HYPOCRISY REBUKED...
HAVE BOUND: Or, chastened...
8-16 Israel was as a cake not turned, half burnt and half dough, none of it fit for use; a mixture of idolatry and of the worship of Jehovah. There were tokens of approaching ruin, as grey hairs are o...
THOUGH I; but as for me, or, And I. BOUND; or chastised, as the word will bear; or instructed; either notion will well suit the place. When I had chastised them for their sins, as in Jehoahaz's time,...
Hosea 7:15 disciplined H3256 (H8765) strengthened H2388 (H8765) arms H2220 devise H2803 (H8762) evil H7451 I have - 2 Kings 13:5, 2 Kings 13:23, 2 Kings 14:25-27; Psalms 106:43-45 bound - or, chasten...
EPHRAIM (ISRAEL) ARE PICTURED AS A HAPLESS DOVE FLUTTERING BETWEEN EGYPT AND ASSYRIA AS THEY ENDEAVOUR TO AVOID YHWH'S NET (HOSEA 7:11). Ephraim are now depicted as being willing to do anything rather...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response to Israel's, cry, continued. Israel's sad state. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If sinful souls are not healed and helped, but perish in their sin and misery, they cannot...
Hosea 7:1. _When I would have healed Israel,_ by Jehu's zeal for the Lord, then the idolatrous priests, like troops of robbers, gathered round him with lies in their mouth, and persuaded him to retain...
_Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against Me._ DIVINE DISPENSATIONS ABUSED I. God’s dispensations with men are characterised by variety. The events of hu...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 7:4 Hosea compares Israel to an oven (vv. Hosea 7:4), a half-baked cake (vv. Hosea 7:8), a silly dove (vv. Hosea 7:11), and a treacherous bow (vv. Hosea 7:13), thus describing thei...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 7:15. BOUND] Weakened and relaxed, an image from surgery (_chastened_, marg.). “Instructing the arms, according to the analogy of Psalms 18:35, is equivalent to showing where a...
EXPOSITION This chapter may be divided into three sections. In the first section, including Hosea 7:1, the prophet reproves with much but deserved severity the depraved morals of king and princes. In...
The Lord continues His response to them. When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in...
2 Corinthians 10:5; 2 Kings 13:23; 2 Kings 13:5; 2 Kings 14:25; Acts 4:25; Hebrews 12:5; Jeremiah 17:9; Job 5:17; Nahum 1:9; Proverbs 3:11;...
Bound — As a surgeon binds up a weak member, or a broken one; so did God for Ephraim, when the Syrians and other enemies had broken their arms. Imagine mischief — They devise mischief against my proph...