Hosea 7:1-3 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 7:1-7

Some take away the last words of the foregoing chapter, and make them the beginning of this: ?When I returned, or would have returned, the captivity of my people, when I was about to come towards them in ways of mercy, even when I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim (the country and common people) was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, the court and the chief city.? Now, in these verses, we may observe, I. A general idea given of the present state of Israel, Hos.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:1

When I would have healed Israel ,.... Or rather, "when I healed Israel" F11 כרפאי "dum curo", Junius & Tremellius; "dum medeor", Piscator, Zanchius, Calvin; "quando sanavi, vel sano", Schmidt. ; for this is not to be understood of a velleity, wish, or desire of healing and saving them, as Jarchi; nor of a bare attempt to do it by the admonitions of the prophets, and by corrections in Providence; but of actual healing them; and by which is meant, not healing them in a spiritual... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:2

And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness ,.... That is, the people of the ten tribes, and the inhabitants of Samaria, whose iniquity and wickedness are said to be discovered, and to be very notorious: and yet "they said not to their hearts" F13 ובל יאמרו ללבבם "et non dicebant ad cor suum", Cocceius; "et non dicunt cordi suo", Schmidt. , as in the original text; they did not think within themselves; they did not commune with their own hearts;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:3

They make the king glad with their wickedness ,.... Not any particular king; not Jeroboam the first, as Kimchi; nor Jehu, as Grotius; if any particular king, rather Jeroboam the second; but their kings in general, as the Septuagint render it, in succession, one after another; who were highly delighted and pleased with the priests in offering sacrifice to the calves, and with the people in attending to that idolatrous worship, by which they hoped to secure the kingdom of Israel to themselves,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:1

When I would have healed Israel - As soon as one wound was healed, another was discovered. Scarcely was one sin blotted out till another was committed. The thief cometh in - Their own princes spoil them. The troop of robbers spoileth without - The Assyrians, under different leaders, waste and plunder the country. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:2

They consider not in their hearts - They do not consider that my eye is upon all their ways; they do not think that I record all their wickedness; and they know not their own evil doings are as a host of enemies encompassing them about. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:3

They make the king glad - They pleased Jeroboam by coming readily into his measures, and heartily joining with him in his idolatry. And they professed to be perfectly happy in their change, and to be greatly advantaged by their new gods; and that the religion of the state now was better than that of Jehovah. Thus, they made all their rulers, "glad with their lies." read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:1

Verse 1 God, that he might show how corrupt was the state of all the people of Israel, compares himself here to a physician, who, while he wishes to try remedies, acknowledges that there are hid more grievous diseases; which is often the case. When a sick person sends for a physician, his disease will be soon discovered; but it may be that he has for many years labored under other hidden complaints, which do not immediately come to the knowledge of the physician. He may indeed think that the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:2

Verse 2 The Prophet shows here that the Israelites had advanced to the highest summit of all wickedness; for they thought that no account was ever to be given by them to God. Hence arises the contempt of God; that is, when men imagine that he is, as it were, sleeping in heaven, and that he rests from every work. They dare not indeed to deny God, and yet they take from him what especially belongs to his divinity, for they exclude him from the office of being a judge. Hence then it is that men... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:3

Verse 3 The Prophet now arraigns all the citizens of Samaria, and in their persons the whole people, because they rendered obedience to the king by flattery, and to the princes in wicked things, respecting which their own conscience convicted them. He had already in the fifth chapter mentioned the defection of the people in this respect, that they had obeyed the royal edict. It might indeed have appeared a matter worthy of praise, that the people had quietly embraced what the king commanded.... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 7:1-7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:2

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:3

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