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Sermon Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:9

Hosea 7:9 Gray hairs are a sign of decay. They are here the marks of age, the premonitory symptoms of dissolution; and so the truth the text announces is that men, many men, live in ignorance, and act in disregard, of signs that should warn and alarm them. In illustration of this I remark I. It appears in the history of states. The words were first spoken of the kingdom of Israel. In the oppression of the poor and the sighing of the needy, in the corruption of morals and the decline of true... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Hosea 7:8-9

DISCOURSE: 1159CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS OF SPIRITUAL DECAYHosea 7:8-9. Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people: Ephraim is a cake not turned. Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, grey hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth it not.IF the body be oppressed with sickness, we inquire into the symptoms of the disorder, and trace it, if possible, to its proper cause. The same course is proper in reference to the soul, and indeed to the state of nations as... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:1-16

Chapter 7The Lord continues His response to them.When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in, and the troop of robbers spoils without. And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face ( Hsa Hosea 7:1-2 ).People forget that God remembers. You don't hide anything from God. You think you're... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 7:1-16

Hosea 7:1 . When I would have healed Israel, by Jehu’s zeal for the Lord, then the idolatrous priests, like troops of robbers, gathered round him with lies in their mouth, and persuaded him to retain the golden calves which Jeroboam had set up in Bethel and in Dan. Hosea 7:7 . All their kings are fallen. Hosea saw in his own times four of their kings besieged, vanquished, and murdered. Zachariah was killed by Shallum, and Shallum by Manahem. Pekahiah was destroyed by Pekah, and Pekah by... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Hosea 7:9

Hosea 7:9Grey hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.Neglected warningsI. Grey hairs are a sign of decay. God has for wise purposes given distinctive features to the different periods of human life, from the cradle onwards to the grave. Human life between the ages of forty and fifty is a sort of tableland. Growth has ceased, but decay has not begun. After that time decay begins. In this text grey hairs are not associated either with parental honours, or with the ripe wisdom of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Hosea 7:9

Hos 7:9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. Ver. 9. Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not ] Strange stupidity, such as was that of Samson, who had lost his hair, and therewith his strength, and wist not at it. These strangers were the kings of Syria, but especially of Assyria. See 2 Kings 13:7 ; 2 Kings 14:25-27 ; 2Ki 15:19-20 ; 2 Kings 15:29-30 ; 2 Kings 17:6 . Salmanasar, as a... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Hosea 7:9

devoured: Hosea 8:7, 2 Kings 13:3-Judges :, 2 Kings 13:22, 2 Kings 15:19, Proverbs 23:35, Isaiah 42:22-Lamentations :, Isaiah 57:1 here and there: Heb. sprinkled Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:3 - turned Judges 16:20 - I will go 2 Chronicles 30:1 - Ephraim Proverbs 5:10 - strangers Ecclesiastes 6:2 - but Ecclesiastes 12:1 - while Isaiah 1:7 - strangers Isaiah 42:25 - he knew Ezekiel 24:13 - because Haggai 2:17 - yet read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hosea 7:9

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.Knoweth it not — He is not aware of the loss he hath sustained.Gray hairs — Of old age and declining strength are upon their kingdom. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:8-16

ISRAEL, BLIND IN HER FOLLY, RUSHES HEADLONG TO DESTRUCTION, Hosea 7:8-16 a. Hosea 7:8-16 a connect very closely with the last clause of Hosea 7:7, but these verses differ so much from the preceding in matter and form that they may be treated as a separate section. Instead of turning to Je-hovah the people mingled with the foreign nations, there to learn wisdom and to find help; unaware that by this policy they were courting certain destruction. What a disappointment the chosen nation has proved! read more