Hosea 12:7

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 12:1-14

Hosea 12:4-5 . He found him in Bethel. Christ, the angel, the mystical angel, or the Angel the Word, as St. Clemens of Alexandria calls him: so indeed do all the orthodox fathers. The church knows of no exception, till the time of Arius. See bishop Bull’s defence of the faith of the Nicene fathers. This work has been reprinted in Holland, and it has the first of claims to the study of all ministers. There he spake with us, even the Lord God of hosts. The name here designates the Speaker,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Hosea 12:7-9

Hosea 12:7-9He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress, etc.FortunesI. Fortunes badly used.1. Here there is no recognition of human co-operation. No man comes in possession of wealth without the efforts of some men either living or dead. Wealth, in most cases, is the result of the efforts of a large number of human workers But the possessor oftentimes takes no note of this. He thinks only of himself.2. Here there is no recognition of Divine agency. All... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Hosea 12:7

Hosea 12:7 [He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress. Ver. 7. He is a merchant ] Heb. He is Canaan that is, a mere natural man, Ezekiel 16:3 , money merchant, who, so he may have it, careth not how he comes by it; he is more like a Canaanite than a Jacobite. Jacob said, "I have enough, my brother"; but Ephraim is sick of the plague of unsatisfiableness; and instead of keeping mercy and judgment, as in the former verse, he keepeth false balances in his... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Hosea 12:7

a merchant: or, Canaan, Ezekiel 16:3, Zechariah 14:21, John 2:16 the balances: Leviticus 19:35, Leviticus 19:36, Proverbs 11:1, Proverbs 16:11, Amos 8:5, Amos 8:6, Micah 6:10, Micah 6:11, 1 Timothy 6:9, 1 Timothy 6:10 he loveth: Isaiah 3:5, Ezekiel 22:29, Amos 2:7, Amos 3:9, Amos 4:1, Amos 5:11, Micah 2:1, Micah 3:1-Leviticus :, Micah 7:2, Malachi 3:5, James 5:4 oppress: or, deceive, 1 Samuel 12:3 Reciprocal: Psalms 10:3 - and blesseth Psalms 36:2 - For he Psalms 52:7 - strengthened Psalms... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hosea 12:7

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.A merchant — Ephraim is so far from being as Jacob, that you may account him a Canaanite, a subtle merchant. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 12:7

7. He is a merchant [“trafficker”] Literally, Canaan, without “he is”; hence margin of R.V., “As for Canaan, the… ,” is preferable. Addressed to the degenerate Israel. Because of the commercial habits of the Canaanites, including the Phoenicians, Canaan became a synonym of merchant (Job 41:6; Proverbs 31:24; compare Zephaniah 1:11; Ezekiel 17:4), just as Chaldean, at a later period, became a synonym of astrologer. “Instead of seeking high gifts from heaven, like its progenitor,... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 12:7-14

ISRAEL’S UNHOLY AMBITION AND BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT, Hosea 12:7-14. Israel’s sole ambition had been to accumulate material wealth, even by the use of the most shameful means. This ill-gotten gain, the prophet says, will avail nothing, for Jehovah is about to reduce Israel to poverty (7-9). The latter part of the section is obscure, due perhaps to a disarrangement of the verses. They seem to contain a complaint of Jehovah because the people disregarded and rejected the prophets whom he had raised... read more