Hosea 8:8

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 8:8-14

It was the honour and happiness of Israel that they had but one God to trust to and he all-sufficient in every strait, and but one God to serve, and he well worthy of all their devotions. But it was their sin, and folly, and shame, that they knew not when they were well off, that they forsook their own mercies for lying vanities; for, I. They multiplied their alliances (Hos. 8:9): They have hired lovers, or (as the margin reads it) they have hired loves. They were at great expense to purchase... read more

John Gill

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

Israel is swallowed up ,.... Not only their substance, but their persons also, the whole nation of them, their whole estate, civil and ecclesiastic: it notes the utter destruction of them by the Assyrians, so that nothing of them and theirs remained; just as anyone is swallowed up and devoured by a breast of prey; the present is put for the future, because of the certainty of it: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure ; when Shalmaneser took Samaria,... read more

Adam Clarke

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

Now shall they be among the Gentiles - They shall be carried into captivity, and there be as a vessel wherein there is no pleasure; one soiled, unclean, infectious, to be despised, abhorred, not used. The allusion is to a rotten, corrupted skin-bottle; a bottle made of goat, deer, or calf hide, still commonly used in Asia and Africa. Some of them are splendidly ornamented. This is the case with one now before me made of a goat's skin well dressed, variously painted, and ornamented with... read more

John Calvin

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

Verse 8 He uses the same word as before when he spake of the meal, and says, that not only the provision of Israel shall be devoured, but also the people themselves; and he upbraids the Israelites with their miseries, that they might at length acknowledge God to be adverse to them. For the Prophet’s object was this — to make them feel their evils, that they might at length humble themselves and learn suppliantly to pray for pardon. For it is a great wisdom, when we so far profit under God’s... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 8:4-8

The causes of the Divine judgments are more particularly specified. The first sin which brought down the Divine displeasure was their civil apostasy, as it has been called, or change of civil government. I. NATURE OF THE FIRST SIN BY WHICH ISRAEL INCURRED DIVINE WRATH . By this we are not to understand, with some, the election of Saul, because this political offence, if we may rightly so term it, included the twelve tribes in common, whereas it is the ten tribes of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 8:5-14

Sin its own punishment. These verses exhibit But perhaps the most prominent thought in the passage is that of the self-punishing nature of sin, as illustrated in the early history and the later fortunes of Ephraim. We see this fact reflected— I. IN THE NATIONAL CALF - WORSHIP . ( Hosea 8:5-7 ) Samaria had "cast off good" ( Hosea 8:3 ) by departing from the pure ritual which Jehovah had prescribed; and therefore the "calf" which she had set up, and in which she gloried,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up . Not only shall the productions of their land be swallowed up, but the persons of the Israelites shall be consumed; nor is the event far off in the distant future, though the Hebrew commentators translate the past as prophetic future; already has the process beam. Such is the extension of the punishment. Now shall they be (rather, are then become ) among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. The prosperity, population, property, and even... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 8:8-10

Israel among the Gentiles. We have here the Nemesis of a false desire of independence. I. MINGLING WITH THE WORLD LEADS TO ABSORPTION BY THE WORLD . ( Hosea 8:8 ) It was the complaint against Ephraim that he had mixed himself among the people ( Hosea 7:8 ). He was not content to remain separate, as God had ordained. He must have his freedom (cf. Luke 15:11-13 ). We now see the end of this: "Israel is swallowed up." He was: 1. Absorbed by the world . The... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up - Not only shall all which they have, be swallowed up by the enemy, but themselves also; and this, not at any distant time, but “now.” “Now,” at a time all but present, “they shall be among the Gentiles, as a vessel wherein is no pleasure,” or, quite strictly, “Now they have become, among the Gentiles.” He speaks of what should certainly be, as though it already were. “A vessel wherein is no pleasure,” is what Paul calls “a vessel to dishonor” 2 Timothy 2:20, as opposed... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 8:8

Hosea 8:8. Israel is swallowed up Under this image the Hebrew language, the Greek, and our own, describe any sudden destruction, so complete as to leave no visible vestige of the thing remaining. The prophet speaks of what was future, as though it were already present; and signifies that the Israelites would be as certainly carried captives into Assyria, as if they were already gone thither into captivity. Now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel, &c. In a short time they... read more

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