Hosea 12:14

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 12:14

Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly ,.... The Vulgate Latin version supplies it, me; that is, God, as Kimchi; or his Lord, as it may be supplied from the last clause of the verse; the sense is the same either way: it was God that Ephraim or the ten tribes provoked to stir up his wrath and vengeance against them; notwithstanding all the favours that they and their ancestors had received from him, they provoked him in a most bitter manner, to bitter anger, vehement wrath and fury:... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 12:14

Therefore shall he leave his blood upon him - He will not remove his guilt. These are similar to our Lord's words, John 3:36 ; John 9:41 ; : "He that believeth not on the Son of God, shall not see life, for the wrath of God Abideth On Him" - shall not be removed by any remission, as he rejects the only way in which he can be saved. Because ye say, We see; therefore, Your Sin Remaineth, i.e., it still stands charged against you. Your miseries and destruction are of your own procuring;... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 12:14

Verse 14 The Prophet says first, that Ephraim had provoked God by his high places Some, however, take the word תמרורים, tamerurim, for bitternesses. Then it is, “Israel or Ephraim have provoked God to bitterness.” But since this word in other places as in the thirty-first of Jeremiah, is taken for high places and as it clearly appears that the Prophet here inveighs avowedly against Israel and their vicious worship, I doubt not but that he points out these high places in which the Israelites... 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 12:11-14

Reproofs and remembrancers. Reproofs for sin, and remembrancers of mercy. I. REBUKES FOR SIN . 1. The richest temporal blessings are blighted by sin . Gilead was a fruitful and pleasant region, as may be inferred from references to it in Scripture, as when God says, "Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness," and when its productions are spoken of, and its pasturages celebrated. It is still a beautiful district, with its... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:12-14

Preserved by a prophet. Comparison with Deuteronomy 26:5-10 shows that the point in this passage is the contrast between Israel's original low estate in Syria and Egypt—the nation in the former case being represented in its ancestor—and the state of honor to which God raised it, when he brought it out of Egypt by Moses, and settled it in Canaan. The intention is to show the full enormity of Ephraim's ingratitude. I. ISRAEL IS SYRIA . ( Deuteronomy 26:12 ) This is viewed as the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:14

Ephraim provoked him to auger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him. Instead of humble thankfulness and due devotedness, Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly. Therefore his blood-guiltiness and consequent punishment are left upon him; his sin and its consequences are not taken away. The dishonor done to God by Ephraim's idolatry and sins shall bring back a sure recompense and severe retribution. HOMILETICS read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 12:14

Ephraim provoked - the Lord most bitterly Literally, “with bitternesses,” i. e., with most heinous sins, such as are most grievously displeasing to God, and were a most bitter requital of all His goodness. “Wherefore He shall leave” (or, “cast”) “his blood” (literally, “bloods”) “upon him.” The plural “bloods” expresses the manifoldness of the bloodshed . It is not used in Holy Scripture of mere guilt. Ephraim had shed blood profusely, so that it ran like water in the land (see the notes above... read more

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