Hosea 9:10

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 9:7-10

For their further awakening, it is here threatened, I. That the destruction spoken of shall come speedily. They shall have no reason to hope for a long reprieve, for the judgment slumbers not; it is at the door (Hos. 9:7): The days of visitation have come, and there shall be no more delay; the days of recompence have come, which they have been so often warned to expect; their prophets have told them that destruction would come, and now it has come, and the time of the divine patience has... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 9:10

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness ,.... Not Jacob or Israel personally, with the few souls that went down with him into Egypt; for these died in Egypt, and never returned from thence, or came into the wilderness to be found; nor Israel in a spiritual sense, the objects of electing, redeeming, and calling grace; though it may be accommodated to them, who in their nature state are as in a wilderness, in a forlorn, hopeless, helpless, and uncomfortable condition; in which the Lord... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 9:10

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness - While they were faithful, they were as acceptable to me as ripe grapes would be to a thirsty traveler in the desert. I saw your fathers - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, Caleb, Samuel, etc. As the first ripe - Those grapes, whose bud having come first, and being exposed most to the sun, have been the first ripe upon the tree; which tree was now in the vigor of youth, and bore fruit for the first time. A metaphor of the rising... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 9:10

Verse 10 In this verse God reproves the Israelites for having preferred to prostitute themselves to idols, rather than to continue under his protection, though he had from the beginning showed his favour to them; as though he had said that they having been previously favoured with his free love, had transferred their affections to others; for he says, that he had found them as grapes in the wilderness. The word wilderness, ought to be joined with grapes, as if he had said, that they had been as... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:9-10

Gibeah and Baal-peor. From this point the mind of the prophet reverts largely to the past. He sees mirrored in it both God's love and the people's sins. Allusion is made Lore to God's early love for Israel, and to the sins of Gibeah and Baal-peor. I. THE EVIL OF SIN IS SEEN BY COMPARISON WITH FORMER SINS , THE HEINOUSNESS OF WHICH ALL ADMIT . Two such outstanding sins of the past were those of Gibeah, and, at a still earlier period, of Baal-peor. The... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:10

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig tree at her first time. Grapes and first figs are among the choicest and most refreshing fruits; but to find such delicious fruits in a dry, barren wilderness is specially grateful and delightful. There are three possible constructions of bammidhbor : According to the first, which, on the whole, seems preferable, the meaning is, "I found Israel of old as a man finds grapes in a desert;" and the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:10-11

God's goodness met with ingratitude by a sinful people. Instead of repenting of their sins, they persevered in their rebellion against God. As if God overlooked or connived at their enormities, they added their deep corruption in the matter of Gibeah, in the days of the judges, to the iniquity of Baal-peor at a still earlier period; while the sins of Gibeah and Baal-peor were equaled by those of the prophet's own day. I. THE DELIGHT WHICH GOD TOOK IN THEIR FATHERS . Their... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:10-17

Bereavement, barrenness, and banishment. Here the prophet ( Hosea 9:10 ) finds a background for his picture of the final distress and captivity of Ephraim, by contrasting therewith the fair promise of prosperity and usefulness which the Hebrew nation had shown during its infancy. The body of the strophe—uttered by Hosea with intense emotion—is full of lamentations and mourning and woe (verses 11-16). And the closing words (verse 17) summarize in one brief and pregnant sentence the burden... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 9:10

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness - God is not said to find anything, as though “He” had lost it, or knew not where it was, or came suddenly upon it, not expecting it. “They” were lost, as relates to Him, when they were found by Him. As our Lord says of the returned prodigal, “This my son was lost and is found” Luke 15:32. He “found” them and made them pleasant in His own sight, “as grapes which a man finds unexpectedly, in “a great terrible wilderness of fiery serpents and drought”... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 9:10

Hosea 9:10. I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness The sense is, as the traveller, passing through the deserts of Arabia, is greatly delighted if he happen to find in his way vines bearing grapes, so was Israel anciently delighted in by God. This relates particularly to their first entering into covenant with God, and their promises of ready obedience: see Exodus 19:8; Exodus 24:3; Deuteronomy 5:27-29. I saw your fathers Whom I brought out of Egypt; as the first ripe in the... read more

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