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Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:7-9

These verses describe the season and source of punishment. The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come. Commentators have appropriately compared the Vergilian " Venit summa dies, et irreluctabile tempus ," equivalent to" The final day and inevitable hour is come." Israel shall know (it): the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad . Here the prophet and the man of the spirit (margin) are In confirmation of (a) that of Israel against their fellow-men, and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:7-9

There is no joy, any more than peace, to the sinner. However men put away from them the evil day, they can neither stave it off altogether nor delay its coming. I. THE CERTAINTY OF THE DIVINE JUDGMENTS OVERTAKING SINNERS . In the previous verse the prophetic past is used, to intimate that, though the event predicted had not yet taken place, yet was it as sure of accomplishment as if it had already occurred. Here the words "are come" are repeated to apprise sinners of its... read more

Albert Barnes

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

The days of visitation are come - The false prophets had continually hood-winked the people, promising them that those days would never come. “They had put far away the evil day” Amos 6:3. Now it was not at hand only. In God’s purpose, those “days” were “come,” irresistible, inevitable, inextricable; days in which God would visit, what in His long-suffering, He seemed to overlook, and would “recompense each according to his works.”Israel shall know it - Israel would not know by believing it;... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 9:7

Hosea 9:7. The days of visitation are come The days of punishment, or retribution, are at hand. This resembles the well-known line of Virgil: Venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus Dardaniæ. ÆN. lib. 2. 50:324. The fatal day, th’ appointed hour is come, The time of Troy’s irrevocable doom. Israel shall know it The Hebrew is only, Israel shall know, namely, that I have spoken the truth; that is, in denouncing misery and calamity against them, as the Chaldee supplies the ellipsis. God’s... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hosea 9:1-17

9:1-13:16 ISRAEL’S PUNISHMENTPunishments to fit the sins (9:1-17)Baal worship and its accompanying immoral rituals were aimed at increasing the produce from farms and vineyards. As a punishment God will destroy the farms and vineyards and send the people into captivity. There they will be forced to eat food that to them is unclean (9:1-3). They will not be able to offer the usual food and wine offerings; in fact, they will barely have enough to keep themselves alive. Meanwhile the land in which... read more

E.W. Bullinger

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

The days of visitation are come. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 32:34 ). App-92 . Compare Luke 19:44 ; Luke 21:22 . recompence = retribution. know [it] = discover [her wickedness, when she said]. spiritual man = man of the Spirit: i.e. God's prophet, who is defined as a man in whom the Spirit of God was. for the multitude, &c. = for great is thine iniquity, great is thine enmity. iniquity = distortion. Hebrew. 'avah. App-44 . hatred = provocation. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hosea 9:7

"The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it; the prophet is a fool, the man that hath the spirit is mad, for the abundance of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great."In a word, the judgment is to fall upon Israel for their sins; and the reason for this is spelled out line by line in 2 Kings 17:7-18. That sacred account of what they had done to incur the awful judgment about to fall includes the following;They worshipped the female... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hosea 9:7

Hosea 9:7. The prophet is a fool, &c.— Stupid is the prophet, &c.; that is to say, the false prophets, who foretel nothing but peace, shall be convinced of their folly and madness, when they see the events happen contrary to what they had foretold. See Calmet and Lowth. The title of prophet seems to have been given to all of the prophetical order; that is, to all who had been educated in the schools of the prophets; because these were usually the persons to whom the gift of prophesy was... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

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

7. visitation—vengeance: punishment (Isaiah 10:3). Israel shall know it—to her cost experimentally (Isaiah 9:9). the prophet is a fool—The false prophet who foretold prosperity to the nation shall be convicted of folly by the event. the spiritual man—the man pretending to inspiration (Lamentations 2:14; Ezekiel 13:3; Micah 3:11; Zephaniah 3:4). for the multitude of thine iniquity, c.—Connect these words with, "the days of visitation . . . are come" "the prophet . . . is mad," being... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hosea 9:1-7

2. Israel’s inevitable judgment 9:1-11:7This section of prophecies continues to record accusations against Israel, but the emphasis on the inevitability of coming judgment increases. Also in contrast to chapter 8, this section is not a speech by Yahweh but one that Hosea delivered about Him. [Note: See Charles H. Silva, "The Literary Structure of Hosea 9-14," Bibliotheca Sacra 164:656 (October-December 2007):435-53, for a literary analysis of this section of Hosea.] read more

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