Hosea 12:8 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 12:8

And Ephraim said, yet I am become rich ,.... Notwithstanding they took such unjust methods, as to use deceitful balances, they prospered in the world, got abundance of riches; and therefore concluded from thence that their manner of dealing was not criminal, at least not so bad as the prophets represented to them; and so promised themselves impunity, and that what they were threatened with would not come upon them; and, as long as they got riches, they cared not in what manner; and inasmuch... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 12:8

I am become rich - They boasted in their riches, notwithstanding the unjust manner in which they were acquired. In all my labors they shall find none iniquity in me - This is frequently the language of merchants, tradesmen, etc. None are so full of professions of equity and justice, while all the time they are endeavoring to overreach, both in buying and selling. "Sir, I cannot afford it at that price." "It is not mine for that money." "I assure you that it cost me more than you offer."... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 12:8

Verse 8 Here God complains by his Prophet, that the Israelites flattered themselves in their vices, because their affairs succeeded prosperously and according to their wishes: and it is a vice too common, that men felicitate themselves as long as fortune, as they commonly say, smiles on them, thinking that they have God then propitious to them. Since then the condition of the people was such, they despised all the Prophets and their reproofs. Of this hardihood the Lord now complains. Ephraim... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

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 12:8

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 12:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 12:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 12:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:7-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:7-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:7-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:7-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:7-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:8

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