sinned. Hebrew. chata . App-44 . from: or, beyond. the days of Gibeah. See Hosea 9:9 and Judges 19:0 and Judges 20:0 . Note the Article. there they stood. In battle array. children = sons. iniquity. Hebrew. 'alvah. Occurs only here, from Hebrew. 'avah. App-44 . did not overtake them. Supply the Ellipsis: [and shall ye escape? ]. read more
It is in My desire, &c. = I am resolved to. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:63 ). people = peoples when they shall bind = they being joined (or yoked) [in cohabitation. Put for idolatries] together in committing idolatry. two furrows. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), for being yoked together as oxen in committing the same sins of idolatry. See the interpretation in verses: Hosea 10:11-13 . read more
And Ephraim = i.e. the land of Ephraim. Here is the contrast. See note on "watchman", Hosea 9:8 . an heifer. Compare Jeremiah 50:11 .Micah 4:13 . passed over upon = put a yoke upon. Jacob. Put here by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6 , for Ephraim. read more
to seek the LORD. Ref to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:29 ). App-92 . rain righteousness, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:2 ). read more
Ye have plowed = Ye have sown. Heb, harashtem. Occurs, with this spelling, only here and Judges 14:18 . The Massorah ( App-30 and App-93 ) places it in an alphabetical list of words, occurring twice, with two different meanings (see Ginsburg's Massorah, vol. i, p. 498). It is therefore a Homonym with one meaning: ye have plowed (Judges 14:18 ); and another, ye have sown (Hosea 10:13 ). wickedness = lawlessness. Hebrew. rasha'. App-44 . trust = confide. Hebrew. batah. App-69 . way.... read more
Shalman. Sayce thinks he is Salamanu, king of Moab, a tributary of Tiglath-Pileser III (Compare Hosea 1:1 ); therefore a contemporary of Hosea. Beth-arbel. Hebrew. Beth-'arbeel = house of the ambush of GOD (Hebrew El. App-4 . IV). Hebrew margin reads Beth - 'arbel, so as to disguise the name El and avoid the supposed offensive expression. the mother, &c. Compare Hosea 13:16 . read more
your great wickedness. Hebrew "evil of your evil". Note the Figure of speech P olypto t on ( App-6 ), Hebrew. ra'a'. in a morning. Some codices, with two early printed editions (one Rabbinic, margin), read "like the dawn". shall the king of Israel. Compare Hosea 10:7 , The king referred to may be Hoshea. read more
"O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood; the battle against the children of iniquity doth not overtake them in Gibeah."The commentators usually refer this sin mentioned here to the elevation of Saul and the rejection of the Theocracy, and that was no doubt the very thing signified in the first mention of it (Hosea 9:9); but by Hosea's mention of the same place again here, he evidently had in mind something more than the rejection of the Theocracy, a fact made... read more
"When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the peoples shall be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions.""I will chastise them ..." This refers to the judgment about to fall."The peoples shall be gathered against them ..." It is particularly the vast hordes of the Assyrian armies that were prophesied in this."Their two transgressions ..." There is no agreement whatever among scholars as to what these two transgressions were, although it is quite generally... read more
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Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hosea 10:1-15
Click image for full-size versionReaping what they have sown (10:1-15)The more prosperous the people of Israel become, the more they increase their worship of Baal. The more certain, therefore, is their coming judgment (10:1-2). No one can be trusted. Injustice, like a poisonous plant, is having a deadly effect. It is killing the nation. The people do not fear God, and as a result will fall under his judgment. They, along with their king and the golden calf that they worship, will be carried... read more