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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 7:9

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not - Like Samson, when, for sensual pleasure, he had betrayed the source of his strength and God had departed from him, lsrael knew not how or wherein his alliancs with the pagan had impaired his strength. He thought his losses at the hand of the enemy, passing wounds, which time would heal; he thought not of them, as tokens of God’s separation from him, that his time of trial was coming to its close, his strength decaying, his end at... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 7:8-10

Hosea 7:8-10. Ephraim, he hath mixed among the people By his alliances with the heathen, and by imitation of their manners, he is himself become one of them. He has thrown off all the distinctions, and forfeited the privileges of the chosen race. “The Hebrew word here rendered people, עמים , is in the plural, and, when applied to bodies politic,” says Bishop Horsley, “always signifies the various nations of the earth, the unenlightened nations, in opposition to God’s peculiar people, the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:8-16

Alliances with other nations (7:8-16)Israel is useless, like a cake that is burnt on one side but uncooked on the other. It has ruined itself by relying too much on other nations and too little on God. As a result Israel has, without realizing it, come under the power of these nations. God has allowed this to happen as a punishment on his people, but because of their arrogance they refuse to acknowledge the fact and will not return to God (8-10). Foolishly they make alliances, first with one... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hosea 7:9

Strangers = Outsiders. Compare Hosea 8:7 . here and there = sprinkled. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hosea 7:9

"Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth it not."The tragedy in view here is that Ephraim (or Israel) had permitted the paganism of the old Canaanites with whom they had intermingled to rob them of their relationship to the true God, a pathetic situation compounded and multiplied by the fact that Ephraim was absolutely unaware of what had happened to him."Gray hairs ... and he knoweth it not ..." Gray hairs are... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hosea 7:9

9. Strangers—foreigners: the Syrians and Assyrians (2 Kings 13:7; 2 Kings 15:19; 2 Kings 15:20; 2 Kings 17:3-6). gray hairs—that is, symptoms of approaching national dissolution. are here and there upon—literally, "are sprinkled on" him. yet he knoweth not—Though old age ought to bring with it wisdom, he neither knows of his senile decay, nor has the true knowledge which leads to reformation. 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 7:9

Foreign alliances had sapped Ephraim’s strength rather than adding to it, but the Israelites were ignorant of this. They thought they were as strong as ever. Tribute payments to allies constantly drained the nation’s wealth and weakened its economy (cf. 2 Kings 15:19-20; 2 Kings 17:3). Israel was unaware of its real condition, as when a person’s hair becomes gray but he does not notice it. Others can sense the approach of death, but he does not. Israel was dying in the late 730s and early 720s,... 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 7:9

(9) Have devoured.—The past tense may refer to the invasions of Tiglath-pileser. Both Egypt and Assyria had come to regard Israel as the earthen pipkin between iron pots. These strangers have devoured his strength—i.e., he has less power to resist aggression, less treasure, less land, smaller population. The signs of senility are upon him. “Grey hairs are his passing bell.” He is under sentence of death, and knoweth it not. read more