Hosea 12:10 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 12:7-14

Here are intermixed, in these verses, I. Reproofs for sin. When God is coming forth to contend with a people, that he may demonstrate his own righteousness, he will demonstrate their unrighteousness. Ephraim was called to turn to his God and keep judgment (Hos. 12:6); now, to show that he had need of that call, he is charged with turning from his God by idolatry, and breaking the laws of justice and judgment. 1. He is here charged with injustice against the precepts of the second table, Hos.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 12:10

I have also spoken to the prophets ,.... Or, "I will speak" F2 ודברתי "et loquar", Piscator, Liveleus, Drusius, Cocceius, Schmidt. ; for this respects not the Lord's speaking by the prophets of the Old Testament who spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost; though all they said were for the use of, and profitable unto, Christian churches; but his speaking by the apostles, prophets, and teachers, under the Gospel dispensation; by whom the doctrines of grace have been more clearly... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 12:10

I have also spoken - I have used every means, and employed every method, to instruct and save you. I have sent prophets, who spake plainly, exhorting, warning, and beseeching you to return to me. They have had Divine visions, which they have declared and interpreted. They have used similitudes, symbols, metaphors, allegories, etc., in order to fix your attention, and bring you back to your duty and interest. And, alas! all is in vain; you have not profited by my condescension. This text St.... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 12:10

Verse 10 The Prophet amplifies the sin of the people in having always obstinately opposed God, so that they were without any pretext of ignorance: for men, we know, evade God’s dreadful judgement as long as they can plead either ignorance or thoughtlessness. The Prophet denies that the people had fallen through want of information, for they had been often, nay, continually warned by the Prophets. It then appears that this people were become, as it were, wilfully rebellious against God; for they... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:10

I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets. The vav before the verb in the beginning of the verse is copulative, and the verb is in the preterit as the accent is on the penult; if the vav were conversive of the preterit into the future, the verb would have the accent on the ultimate. The preterit denotes what has been taking place up to the present. עִל is explained (a) use similitudes, some supply a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:10

Visions and similitudes. In two ways Jehovah showed himself to be in an especial manner favorable towards the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The first was by his providential care of the nation throughout its history. And the second was that mentioned in this verse: God sent continually to his chosen people prophets, whose communications were the means of instructing, warning, and guiding them. Observe the twofold description of the Divine revelation vouchsafed. I. VISIONS .... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 12:7-14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 12:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 12:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 12:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:7-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:7-11

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The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:7-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:10

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