Hosea 9:17 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 9:11-17

In the foregoing verses we saw the s 38ba in of Israel derived from their fathers; here we see the punishment of Israel derived to their children; for, as death entered by sin at first, so it is still entailed with it. We may observe, in these verses, I. The sin of Ephraim. Some expressions are here which describe that. 1. They did not hearken to God (Hos. 9:17); they did not give attention to the voice either of his word or of his rod; they did not believe what he said, nor would they be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 9:17

My God will cast them away ,.... With loathsomeness and contempt, having sinned against him, and done such abominable things; cast them out of their own land, as men not fit to live in it; cast them out of his sight, as not able to endure them; cast them away, as unprofitable and good for nothing; reject them from being his people; no more own them in the relation they had stood in to him; nor show them any more favour, at least until the conversion of them in the times of the Messiah. These... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 9:17

My God will cast them away - Here the prophet seems to apologize for the severity of these denunciations; and to vindicate the Divine justice, from which they proceeded. It is: - Because they did not hearken unto him - That "my God," the fountain of mercy and kindness, "will cast them away." And they shall be wanderers among the nations - And where they have wandered to, who can tell? and in what nations to be found, no man knows. Wanderers they are; and perhaps even now unknown to... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 9:17

Verse 17 The Prophet, as I have lately hinted, assigns a reason why God had resolved to deal so severely with this people, namely because he saw their unnameable perverseness. For the Prophets always defend the justice of God against the impious complaints of those men who murmur whenever God severely punishes them, and cry out that he is cruel, and exceeds moderation. The Prophets do therefore shut up the mouth of the ungodly, that they may not vomit out their blasphemies against God; and the... 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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:11-17

Ephraim's woe. "Woe also to them when I depart kern them" ( Hosea 9:12 ). It is this thought of woe as the result of God departing from Ephraim—"hating them," "loving them no more" ( Hosea 9:15 )—which is the key-note of the passage. The prophet compares the ideal which God set up for Ephraim—fruitfulness, Tyre-like pleasantness of situation, settled habitation in Canaan—with the miserable end now awaiting the people. His mind dwells with a sort of fixity of horror on the bringing forth... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:12-17

The wicked shall not go unpunished. If they escape one calamity, they are sure to be overtaken and overwhelmed by another. I. CALAMITY OF TWOFOLD KIND THREATENED . There is: 1. Bereavement , and that of a most painful nature. To be childless altogether, or to lose children in infancy, is sorrowful enough; but to be bereft of children when they have grown up to manhood or womanhood is an unspeakably greater sorrow. After labor, and trouble, and care, and thought have... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:15-17

After the interruption by the excited question of the prophet in Hosea 9:14 , the terrible storm of denunciation sweeps on to the end of the chapter. All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them ; or, there I conceived hatred against them , the verb being used in an inchoative sense. Gilgal had been the scene of many mercies; there the rite of circumcision, the seal of the Abrahamic covenant, after its omission dining the sojourn in the wilderness, was renewed; there the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:17

Wanderers among the nations. Whether or not there was present to the mind of the prophet the actual fate which has overtaken his countrymen, it seems plain that the Spirit within him uttered in these words a doom of which long centuries have beheld the awful fulfillment. We see here— I. NATIONAL CONTINUITY . The Hebrews were, and are, treated as one people. God visited, and still visits, the sins of the fathers upon the children. The Israelites who apostatized were one generation;... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 9:17

My God hath cast them away - “My God” (he saith) as if God were his God only who clave to him, not their’s who had, by their disobedience, departed from Him. “My God.” “He had then authority from Him,” whom he owned and who owned “him,” and who bade him so Speak, as though God were “his” God, and no longer their’s. God “casts them away,” lit. “despises them,” and so rejects them as an object of aversion to Him, “because they did not hearken to Him.” “God never forsakes unless He be first... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 9:11-17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 9:17

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 9:17

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 9:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:10-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:11-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:12-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:15-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 9:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 9:17

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