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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:11

Ephraim is as a heifer that is taught - One thoroughly broken in to the yoke. And loveth to tread out - Goes peaceably in the yoke; and is pleased because, not being muzzled, she eats of the corn. I passed over upon her fair neck - I brought the yoke upon it, that she should not tread out the corn merely, but draw the plough and drag the harrow. These operations of husbandry are all referred to here, with some others. Ephraim shall tread out the corn, that there may be seed for the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:12

Sow to yourselves in righteousness - Let the seed you sow be of the best kind, and in just measure. Reap in mercy - By the blessing of God on this ploughing, sowing, and harrowing, you may expect a good crop in harvest. Break up your fallow ground - Do not be satisfied with a slight furrow; let the land that was fallowed (slightly ploughed) be broken up again with a deep furrow. For it is time to seek the Lord - This should be immediately done: the season is passing; and if you... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:13

Ye have ploughed wickedness - Ye have labored sinfully. Ye have reaped iniquity - The punishment due to your iniquity. Ye have eaten the fruit of lies - Your false worship and your false gods have brought you into captivity and misery. Because thou didst trust in thy way - Didst confide in thy own counsels, and in thy mighty men, and not in the God who made you. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:14

Shall a tumult arise - The enemy shall soon fall upon thy people, and take all thy fortified places. As Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel - Some think that this refers to Jerubbaal, or Gideon's victory over Zalmunna, general of the Midianites; see Judges 7:8 . Others think that an allusion is made here to the destruction of Arbela, a city of Armenia, by Shalmaneser, here called Shalman; and this while he was only general of the Assyrian forces, and not yet king. I think the history to which... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:15

So shall Beth-el do unto you - This shall be the consequence of your idolatry. In a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off - Suddenly, unexpectedly. Hoshea, the king of Israel, shall be cut off by the Assyrians. There are some allusions to facts in this chapter, which cannot be easily verified, as we have not sufficient acquaintance with the history of those times. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:9

Verse 9 He here reproaches Israel for having been long inured in their sins, and not for being lately corrupted. This is the substance. He had said in the last chapter that they were deep in their sins, as in the days of Gibeah: we then explained why the Prophet adduced the example of Gibeah, and that was, because the Gibeonites had fallen away from all fear of God, as if not a word about the law had ever been heard among them. We indeed know that they abandoned themselves to filthy and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:10

Verse 10 When God says that he desires to chastise the people, he intimates that this was his purpose, as when one greatly wishes for anything; and it may be an allowable change in the sentence, if the copulative was omitted, and it be rendered thus, — It is in my desire to chastise them But to depart from the words seems not to me necessary; I therefore take them apart as they stand, in this sense, — that God would follow his desire in chastising the people. The sentence seems indeed to be... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:11

Verse 11 Some read the two words, “taught,” and “loveth,” separately, מלמדה, melamde, and אהבתי, aebti; for they think that at the beginning of the verse a reproach is conveyed, as though the Prophet had said, that Ephraim was wholly unteachable: though God had from childhood brought him up under his discipline, he yet now showed so great stubbornness, that he even ceased not to rebel against God, and went on obstinately in his own wickedness. “Ephraim then is like a trained heifer.” But this... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:12

Verse 12 He exhorts here the Israelites to repentance; though it seems not a simple and bare exhortation, but rather a protestation; as though the Lord had said, that he had hitherto laboured in vain as to the people of Israel, because they had ever continued obstinate. For it immediately follows — read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:13

Verse 13 The reason is here found, why I thought that the Prophet did not simply exhort the people, but rather charged them with obduracy for not growing better, though often admonished. He then relates how much God had previously done to restore the people to a sound mind; for it had been his constant teaching, Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap, in proportion, kindness, or according to the proportion of kindness; plough a ploughing for yourselves; it is the time to seek the Lord Though... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:15

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:12

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 10:13

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