Hosea 13:3 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 13:1-4

Idolatry was the sin that did most easily beset the Jewish nation till after the captivity; the ten tribes from the first were guilty of it, but especially after the days of Ahab; and this is the sin which, in these verses, they are charged with. Observe, I. The provision that God made to prevent their falling into idolatry. This we have, Hos. 14:4. God did what was fit to be done to keep them close to himself; what could have been done more? 1. He made known himself to them as the Lord their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 13:3

Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud ,.... Which, however promising it is, soon disappears when the sun is risen; signifying that the idolatrous Israelites, king, priests, and people, should be no more; their kingdom would cease, all their riches and wealth would depart from them, and they and their children be carried captive into a strange land: and as the early dew it passeth away ; as soon as the heat of the sun is felt, when the earth is left dry; so these people, though... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 13:3

Therefore they shall be as the morning Cloud - as the early Dew - as the Chaff - as the Smoke - Four things, most easy to be driven about and dissipated, are employed here to show how they should be scattered among the nations, and dissipated by captivity. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 13:3

Verse 3 The Prophet employs here four similitudes to show the condition of Israel. How much soever they flourished for a time, and might be deemed happy, their state would yet be fading and evanescent. They shall be, he says, as the morning cloud: though they be loftily proud, the Lord will yet shake off from them whatever power they may have. Secondly, they shall be as the dew that rises up in the morning — having nothing substantial in them. Thirdly they shall be as the chaff which from the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 13:1-4

Baal-exaltation. The first clause is better read, "When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel." The contrast is between what Ephraim once was, and what his offending in Baal had now brought him to. Once he was great in Israel. He had authority, influence, power to inspire terror. Now he was but the wreck of his former self. He would be swept away like chaff before the whirlwind. I. THE FIRST FALSE STEP . ( Hosea 13:1 ) It is the first false step in sin... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 13:1-8

Justification of the ways of God to man. Israel had been the cause of their own calamities—another proof that sin is the procuring cause of all human suffering and sorrow. God's character is seen to be everlastingly the same—long-suffering and merciful, ever gracious to penitents, abounding in goodness and truth to all, but by no means clearing the guilty. I. THE SECRET OF SUCCESS . Most men are fond of power, all men value prosperity; yet few men know the right road, and fewer... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 13:1-8

Ephraim, living and dead. This passage portrays anew the dreadful prevalence of apostasy and idolatry throughout the nation. "The same strings, though generally unpleasing ones, are harped upon in this chapter that were in those before" (Matthew Henry). Much of the imagery continues to be anthropopathic; the prophet exhibits an apparent tumult of contending passions in the Divine mind towards unfilial and rebellious Ephraim. I. EPHRAIM WAS ONCE ALIVE . He had been so, both... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 13:3

Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind cut of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney . The illative particle with which the verse begins has reference to the sins of Israel, so great and multiplied that punishment could not be long delayed. Their irrational and God-dishonoring conduct was bringing on them sure and swift destruction. The prophet employs four figures to exhibit their political... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 13:3

Driven chaff and vanished smoke. The imagery here employed is of obvious interpretation. When the blast of the whirlwind or of the winnowing fan passes ever the threshing-floor, the chaff is driven away and dispersed. When the fire is kindled upon the earth, the smoke makes its escape through the lattice-work below the roof into the open air. Even so, those who wickedly depart from Jehovah and addict themselves to the worship of idols shall, says the prophet, learn by bitter experience the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 13:3

The life of the wicked. "Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney." This verse may be taken as a picture of a human life unregenerate, out of vital sympathy with God and goodness. I. IT IS DECEPTIVE . "Like the morning cloud." In Palestine and countries of the same latitude, dense clouds often appear in the morning, cover the heavens, and... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 13:1-4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 13:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 13:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 13:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 13:1-4

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 13:1-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 13:1-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 13:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 13:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 13:3

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