Hosea 9:12

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 BEREAVE THEM, THAT THERE SHALL NOT BE A MAN LEFT - even though they should rear their children, yet will I bereave them (the Ephraimites) of them (). WOE ALSO TO THEM WHEN I DEPART FROM THEM! "Also:" besides and beyond the loss of children, whom they WOE ALSO TO THEM WHEN I DEPART FROM THEM! "Also:" besides and beyond the loss of children, whom they hoped or longed for, and their loss of national power, is that last and lowest step of woe, God's departure from them; yet the ungodly in their madness desire God to depart from them (;...

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 Ephraim then flattered himself, yet a dreadful ruin was at hand, which would extinguish the whole seed, so that there would be nothing remaining. But lest they should think that all was over, when the Lord had inflicted on them one punishment, he lays down three gradations; that God would slay them first in the birth, then extinguish them in the womb, and, lastly, before conception; but if he spared them, so that they would raise up children, it would yet be without advantage, inasmuch as God would take away the youths in the flower of their age. Thus, then he threatens entire destruction to the kingdom of Israel. And, lastly, he closes the verse in these words, _And surely woe will be to them wh...

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 things seem to remain, yet the blessing is gone if God is gone. Even the children should perish with the parents. The Divine wrath dries up the root, and withers the fruit of all comforts; and the scattered Jews daily warn us to beware, lest we neglect or abuse the gospel. Yet every smiting is not a drying up of the root. It may be that God intends only to smite so that the sap may be turned to the root, that there may be more of root graces, more humility, patience, faith, and self-denial. It is very just that God should bring judgments on those who slight his offered mercy....

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, he would bereave them of them, or make them childless. THAT THERE SHALL NOT BE A MAN LEFT - Literally, “from man.” The brief word may be filled up, as the English Version has done (by not infrequent an idiom): (1) “from there being a man;” or (2) “from” among “men;” as Samuel said to Agag (1 Samuel 15:33; add Proverbs 30:14), “as thy sword has made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women;” or (3) “from

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 section was so no idolatrous merry-making in connection with harvest, and not any change of political situation. (1) The literal rendering of the first clause is, _rejoice not unto exultation_,_ _or _exceedingly_,_ as _the same expression is translated in Job 3:22; it is thus climactic. (2) The old versions take _el-gil_ as imperative, and read אַל; μηδὲ εὐφραίνον, equivalent to "nor ma

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 promising to live, and perpetuate the names of their fathers and their families: YET WILL I BEREAVE THEM; their parents of them, by the sword, famine, pestilence, or by carrying them captive into a foreign country: [THAT THERE SHALL] NOT [BE] A MAN [LEFT]; in the whole land of Israel, but all shall be destroyed, or carried captive; or, "from men" i; that is, either from being men, as the Targum; though they are brought up to some ripeness, and a more adult age than others, yet arrive not to such a time and age as to be called men, as Kimchi observes; or from being among men, being either taken away by death, or removed from the society of men to live among beasts, and to he slaves like them:...

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 10:12) 4. The mercy of a merciful God (Hosea 11:1) Hosea 9:10. Like a wayfaring man who finds grapes and figs in the desert and delights in them, so the Lord found Israel in the desert and they were His pleasure when He led them out of Egypt. But they requited His love by going after Baal-peor, one of the filthiest gods of heat

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, Baal-Peor, they polluted themselves (Hosea 9:10). The consequent nemesis was barrenness [12] (Hosea 9:11).their root is dried up (Hosea 9:16) should be inserted (Wellhausen) between Hosea 9:11 and Hosea 9:12. If children are brought up to die prematurely ...

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; Deuteronomy 28:62). WHEN. DEPART FROM THEM. when. take command from them. Hebrew. _sur,_ as in Hosea 8:4, and Hosea 12:3 (see notes there). Not the same word as "withdraw" in...