Hosea 9:10

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 9:10

I found, &c. Another contrast. See Hosea 9:8 . they went, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 25:3 ). The history was well known, or this reference to it would be useless. App-92 . Baal-peor. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 25:3 .Deuteronomy 4:3; Deuteronomy 4:3 ). Elsewhere only in Psalms 106:28 . Compare Joshua 22:17 . that shame = that shameful thing: the 'Asherah and its worship. See App-42 . their, &c. Supply the Ellipsis, and render: "became an abomination like their... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hosea 9:10

"I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.""Like the grapes in the wilderness ... as the first-ripe in the fig tree ..." This is a reference to the early favor which was found from God in the lives of the early patriarchs of Israel. Men of the stature of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were among... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hosea 9:10

Hosea 9:10. I found Israel, &c.— "After I had miraculously redeemed Israel out of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness, their obedience was as grateful to me as early grapes, or the first ripe figs to a thirsty traveller." See Micah 7:1.Isaiah 28:4; Isaiah 28:4. Houbigant renders the last clause of this verse, Which when they loved they became abominable: others read, They went to Baal-peor, and consecrated or devoted themselves unto that shame; and abominations became as their love. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hosea 9:10

10. As the traveller in a wilderness is delighted at finding grapes to quench his thirst, or the early fig (esteemed a great delicacy in the East, Isaiah 28:4; Jeremiah 24:2; Micah 7:1); so it was My delight to choose your fathers as My peculiar people in Egypt (Hosea 2:15). at her first time—when the first-fruits of the tree become ripe. went to Baal-peor— (Hosea 2:15- :): the Moabite idol, in whose worship young women prostituted themselves; the very sin Israel latterly was guilty of.... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hosea 9:10

In the early days of Israel’s history in the wilderness, the Lord took great delight in His people, as one rejoices to find grapes in a desert or the first figs of the season. However, when they came to Baal-Peor, where they worshipped Baal and committed ritual sex with the Moabite and Midianite women (Numbers 25), they became as detestable to Yahweh as the idols they loved. This first instance of Baal worship set the pattern of Israel’s idolatry that followed in the land and resulted in her... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hosea 9:10-14

Diminished fruitfulness 9:10-14"The gloomy, foreboding atmosphere of Hosea 9:1-9 changes now to one of pathos. The words here are at once tender and loving." [Note: McComiskey, p. 148.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hosea 9:10-17

Israel’s humiliation 9:10-17This section is one in a series that looks back on Israel’s previous history, and its reflective mood colors its prophecies (cf. Hosea 10:1-15; Hosea 11:1-7)."Divine speech and prophetic speech combine in this passage to pronounce upon the disobedient Israelites the fulfillment of the curses for disobedience contained in the Mosaic covenant. Here for the first time Hosea himself calls down the wrath of God upon his own compatriots (Hosea 9:14; Hosea 9:17). He is thus... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 9:1-17

Exile is at HandThis prophecy appears to have been written in a time of rejoicing over a good harvest and vintage. Israel need not rejoice, says the prophet, with the wild joy of the heathen. Their praises to the local Baals are insults to Jehovah, whom they have denied. Their rejoicing will end in disaster, culminating in captivity either in Egypt or Assyria.1, 2. People] RV ’peoples,’ i.e. the heathen nations around. The allusion is probably to the orgies of the heathen festival. The sins of.... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hosea 9:10

(10) Grapes in the wilderness.—Rich dainties to the desert traveller. So had Jehovah regarded His people at the commencement of their national history in the wilderness.Firstripe.—The early fig that ripens in June, while the rest come to maturity about August (Isaiah 28:4; Micah 7:1; Jeremiah 24:2).Baal-peor was the place where Moabitic idolatry was practised. This great disgrace had burned itself into their national traditions and literature (Numbers 25:0; Deuteronomy 4:3; Psalms... read more

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