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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 9:15

wickedness. Hebrew. ra'a'. App-44 . Gilgal. Compare Hosea 4:15 ; Hosea 12:11 . The place where Jehovah was rejected, and man's king set up; and where, on account of his impatience and disobedience Saul got his first message of his rejection (1 Samuel 13:4-15 ), and his second (1 Samuel 15:12-33 ). See note on Hosea 4:15 . I hated them = have I come to hate them. for the wickedness, &c. Compare Hosea 1:6 . their princes are revolters. Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia ( App-6 ),... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hosea 9:15

"All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings, I will drive them out of my house; I will love them no more; all their princes are revolters.""All their wickedness is in Gilgal ..." This is the third of the historical situations cited by the prophet to show that Israel's defection from God was no recent thing at all, but the final flowering of a fundamental rejection of God's teaching which had been evident in the behavior of the people... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hosea 9:15

Hosea 9:15. Gilgal; for there I hated them— For there they became hateful to me, for their flagitious practices;—I will drive them, &c. That is, "I will no longer consider them as my family, my children, and servants." See chap. Hosea 8:1. The first great offence of the Israelites, after their entrance into the holy land, was committed when they were encamped in Gilgal; namely, the sacrilegious peculation of Achan. There, says God, of old was my quarrel with them; and to this, I think,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hosea 9:15

15. All their wickedness—that is, their chief guilt. Gilgal—(see on :-). This was the scene of their first contumacy in rejecting God and choosing a king (1 Samuel 11:14; 1 Samuel 11:15; compare 1 Samuel 11:15- :), and of their subsequent idolatry. there I hated them—not with the human passion, but holy hatred of their sin, which required punishment to be inflicted on themselves (compare 1 Samuel 11:15- :). out of mine house—as in Hosea 8:1: out of the land holy unto ME. Or, as "love" is... 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

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hosea 9:15

What the Israelites did at Gilgal caused the Lord to hate them. This is covenant terminology meaning He opposed them; personal emotion is not the main point. At Gilgal the Israelites practiced the pagan fertility cult (cf. Hosea 4:15; Hosea 12:11). Gilgal epitomized the syncretistic worship of Hosea’s day. Yahweh would drive His people out of the land, as He had expelled Adam and Eve and the Canaanites, because they had sinned and had adopted the ways of sinners. He would love (choose to bless)... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hosea 9:15-17

Expulsion from the land 9:15-17"The previous section (Hosea 9:10-14) began with a tender expression of Yahweh’s love. This section (Hosea 9:15-17) begins with an affirmation of his hatred. The previous section looked back to the wilderness; this section looks back to Gilgal. Hosea views God as acting in history; thus historical events and the geographical sites where they occurred become vehicles of divine truth. The events of the exodus from Egypt spoke volumes about God, as did the events... 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 9:15

(15) Gilgal.—On Gilgal as a seat of idolatrous worship, see Hosea 4:15. “My house” here, and in Hosea 8:1 (“Jehovah’s house”), is interpreted by Wünsche and Nowack, with considerable show of reason, to mean the “holy land,” Canaan. This interpretation is confirmed by the use of the Assyrian word Bîtu, corresponding to the Hebrew bêth “house.” The term seems to have blended the conception of a people and the territory they occupied. (See Schrader, Keilinschriften und das alte Testament, p. 540,... read more

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