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
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hosea 9:11
from the birth, &c. = no birth, none with child, no conception. conception. This particular word herayon occurs only here, and Ruth 4:13 . A similar word (Hebrew. haron) in Genesis 3:16 . read more