Hosea 12

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:6

Genuine human goodness. "Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually." Delitzsch renders the verse thus: "And thou to thy God shall return, keep love, and right, and hope continually in thy God." The new translation gives no new idea. The few words may be regarded as representing genuine human goodness. Looking at it in this respect it includes three things. I. SPIRITUAL CONVERSION . "Turn thou to thy God." An expression implying that... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:7

He is a merchant (margin, Canaan ) , the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress . This verse is more exactly rendered, Canaan is he, in his hand are the balances of deceit: he loveth to oppress . How the sons have degenerated from the sire! No longer do we see Jacob wrestling in prayer with the angel of the covenant, and knighted in the field with the name of Israel, or "prince with God;" but a fraudulent merchant Kenaan, seeking to aggrandize himself by... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:7-9

Fortunes badly used, badly made, and badly ended. "He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labors they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin. And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast." Here we have— I. FORTUNES BADLY USED . "And Ephraim said, I am become rich, I... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:7-10

Extent of Israel's apostasy. I. Here we are shown now FOR ISRAEL HAD APOSTATIZED , how unlike they were to the patriarch of whom they boasted, and how far they fell short of admonitions that had been addressed to) them. 1. They were like the Canaanite whom they despised than the patriarch from whom they were descended. They had become liker fraudulent merchants than God-fearing members of the Church of God. To fraud they added oppression where they had the power. 2. The ... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:7-11

Balances of deceit. In the manner of his acquisition of wealth, Ephraim conjoined deceit and oppression. He was dishonest in trade. He oppressed the poor. He was a better imitator of Jacob in his act of laying hold of his brother's heel than in his earnestness in wrestling with the angel. He inherited the evil, not the good, traits in the character of his progenitor He was a "Jacob," not an "Israel." Yet he plumed himself on his success. I. EPHRAIM 'S SAY IN THE MATTER . ( ... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:7-14

Contain a fresh description of Israel's apostasy. To this the prophet is led by the preceding train of thought. When he called to mind the earnestness of the patriarch to obtain the blessing, the sincerity of his repentance, and the evidences of conversion, consisting in mercy and judgment and constant waiting on God, he looks around on Israel, and finding those virtues conspicuous by their absence; he repeats the story of their degeneracy. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:7-14

Three painful contrasts. In this strophe the threatening of punishment is again repeated ( Hosea 12:14 ). Ephraim's blood-guiltiness is to be left upon him; i.e. his sin is not to be pardoned. The "reproach" or dishonor which he has done to God by his idolatry, and iniquity God will repay him. But the denunciation is mixed with mercy. "I will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles" ( Hosea 12:9 ) seems to include, not only a threatening of banishment from "the Lord's land," but a new... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:8

And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance. Ephraim in this verse boasts of his riches, though procured by fraud and violence, while he maintains at the same time that he has not sinned thereby so as to expose himself to punishment or deserve severe reprehension. The particle— אַךְ —has two principal meanings: (a) "surely" and (b) "only." In the former sense the clause (a) the subject of the verb, as in the LXX ; which is, "None of his labors... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:9

And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast. This verse consists of two parts which in the original are coordinated; but in the Authorized Version the one is subordinated to the other by supplying an awkward and unnecessary ellipsis. It is better, therefore, to translate thus: And I am the Lord thy God, from the land of Egypt: I will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn ... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:9

Happiness in reserve. The mixture of promise with threat is one of the remarkable and instructive characteristics of these prophecies. In the midst of wrath God remembers mercy. The bright lining of the cloud cheers the beholder when he is downcast and troubled. Hoses is commissioned to assure Israel that upon their repentance they shall rejoice before God in the glad Feast of Tabernacles, which they shall celebrate to his glory. I. TRUE HAPPINESS CONSISTS IN THE REMEMBRANCE ... read more

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