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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hosea 7:16

to the Most High = to Him Who is on high. Compare Hosea 11:7 . a deceitful bow. That disappoints the user, and cannot be depended upon. Compare Psalms 78:57 . for = because of. derision = ridicule. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hosea 7:16

"They return, but not to him that is on high; they are like a deceitful bow; their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue; this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt."The people returned all right, but not to God. They returned to the immoral orgies of Bethel, to the drunkenness, immorality, and vice which were the stock in trade of paganism."They are like a deceitful bow ..." Some scholars have understood this to be "a slack bow, one that looks good but has no... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hosea 7:16

Hosea 7:16. They return, but not to the Most High— They have endeavoured again to be without yoke: They are become like a deceitful bow: Their princes shall fall by the sword. For the wantonness of their tongue, they shall be a derision in the land of Egypt. Houbigant. Bishop Horsley translates the first clause of this verse, They fall back into nothingness of condition, observing, That the situation of the Israelites, as the chosen people of God, was a high degree; a rank of distinction and... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hosea 7:16

16. return, but not to the Most High—or, "to one who is not the Most High," one very different from Him, a stock or a stone. So the Septuagint. deceitful bow— ( :-). A bow which, from its faulty construction, shoots wide of the mark. So Israel pretends to seek God, but turns aside to idols. for the rage of their tongue—their boast of safety from Egyptian aid, and their "lies" (Hosea 7:13), whereby they pretended to serve God, while worshipping idols; also their perverse defense for their... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hosea 7:8-16

Reliance on foreigners 7:8-16This pericope condemns Israel’s foreign policy. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hosea 7:16

They had looked around to other nations for help, but they had not turned their hearts and eyes to heaven to seek the Lord’s help. They had become like a warped bow in Yahweh’s hands. Rather than shooting His enemies, they shot their own leaders and slew them (e.g., Zechariah, Shallum, Pekahiah, and Pekah). In the days of Jeroboam II the Israelites had also boasted insolently to the Egyptians about not needing Yahweh. But the Egyptians, their treaty partner on several occasions, would deride... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:1-16

Corruption of the CourtIn 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 centre of a wicked and corrupt government sustained by a lawless people and false teachers. Hosea dwells chiefly on some plot which ended in regicide and the reliance on foreign powers which meant want of faith in God.2. They fail to realise how patent in God’s sight their iniquity is, while they attempt... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hosea 7:16

(16) Like a deceitful bow.—Religious observance has the appearance of a bow with the arrow on the string, apparently aimed at some object, but the string being slack, the aim is diverted.The “raving insolence of their tongue” may mean the boasts that were made of the friendship of King Shebaka of Egypt, who made Israel his tool. In the land of Egypt they would thus become objects of derision. (Comp. Isaiah’s warning to his countrymen, Isaiah 30:1-8.) read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:1-16

THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAELHosea 4:1-19; Hosea 5:1-15; Hosea 6:1-11; Hosea 7:1-16; Hosea 8:1-14; Hosea 9:1-17; Hosea 10:1-15; Hosea 11:1-12; Hosea 12:1-14; Hosea 13:1-16; Hosea 14:1-9It was indeed a "thick night" into which this Arthur of Israel stepped from his shattered home. The mists drive across Hosea’s long agony with his people, and what we see, we see blurred and broken. There are stumbling and clashing; crowds in drift; confused rallies; gangs of assassins breaking across the highways;... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:8-16

1. THE CONFUSION OF THE NATIONHosea 7:8-16; Hosea 8:1-3Hosea begins by summing up the public aspect of Israel in two epigrams, short but of marvelous adequacy:-{Hosea 7:8}"Ephraim-among the nations he mixeth himself: Ephraim has become a cake not turned."It is a great crisis for any nation to pass from the seclusion of its youth and become a factor in the main history of the world. But for Israel the crisis was trebly great. Their difference from all other tribes about them had struck the... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hosea 7:16

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hosea 7:16

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hosea 7:16

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hosea 7:16

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hosea 7:8-16

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hosea 7:16

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:1-16

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hosea 7:16

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:1-16

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:8-16

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