Oseas 8:11-13 NVI

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 8:11

Because Ephraim hath, made many altars to sin ,.... Not with an intention to commit sin, but to offer sacrifice for sin, and make atonement for it, as they thought; but these altars being erected for the sake of idols, and sacrifices offered on them to them, they sinned in so doing, and were the cause of sin in others, who were drawn into it by their example; as they were made to sin, or drawn into it, by Jeroboam their king, These altars were those set up at Dan and Bethel, and in all high... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 8:12

I have written to him the great things of my law ,.... Which was given by Moses to Israel at the appointment of God, in which were many commands, holy, just, and true; a multiplicity of them, as the Targum, relating to the honour of God, and the good of men; many excellent and useful ones of a moral nature, and others of a ceremonial kind; and particularly concerning sacrifices, showing what they should be, the nature and use of them, and where and on what altar they should be offered; and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 8:13

They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings , and eat it ,.... Or, "as to the sacrifices mine offerings" or "gifts, they sacrifice flesh, and eat it" F15 זבחי הבהבי יזבחו בשר ויאכלו "quod attinet ad sacrificia donariorum meorum, sacrificant illi quidem carnem, et comedunt", Piscator, De Dieu; "quantum ad sacrificia", &c.; Schmidt. So Reinbeck. De Accent. Hebr. p. 445. ; these sacrifices, which, according to the law, should given to God when they... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 8:11

Many altars to sin - Though it does not appear that the Jews in Babylon were obliged to worship the idols of the country, except in the case mentioned by Daniel, yet it was far otherwise with the Israelites in Assyria, and the other countries of their dispersion. Because they had made many altars to sin while they were in their own land, they were obliged to continue in the land of their captivity a similar system of idolatry against their will. Thus they felt and saw the evil of their... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 8:12

I have written to him the great things of my law - I have as it were inscribed my laws to them, and they have treated them as matters in which they had no interest. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 8:13

They sacrifice flesh - Bp. Newcome translates thus: "They sacrifice gifts appointed unto me, and eat flesh." They offer to their idols the things which belong to Jehovah; or, while pretending to offer unto the Lord, they eat and drink idolatrously; and therefore the Lord will not accept them. They shall return to Egypt - Many of them did return to Egypt after the conquest of Palestine by Shalmaneser, and many after the ruin of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar; but they had in effect returned... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 8:11

Verse 11 The Prophet here again inveighs against the idolatry of the people, which was, however, counted then the best religion; for the Israelites, as it has been said were become hardened in their superstitions, and had long before fallen away from the pure and lawful worship of God. And we know, that where error has once prevailed, it attains firmness by length of time: hence the Israelites had become hardened in their perverted and fictitious worship. They thought that they did the most... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 8:12

Verse 12 The Prophet shows here briefly, how we ought to judge of divine worship, and thus intends to cut off the handle from all devices, by which men usually deceive themselves, and form disguises, when at any time they are reproved. For he sets the law of God, and the rule it prescribes, in opposition to all the inventions of men. Men think God unjust, except he receives as good and legitimate whatever they imagine to be so; but God, as it is said in another place, prefers obedience to all... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 8:13

Verse 13 Interpreters think that the Israelites are here derided because they trusted in their own ceremonies, and that their sacrifices are reproachfully called flesh. But we must see whether the words of the Prophet contain something deeper. For the word הבהב, ebeb, some rightly expound, in my judgment, as meaning “sacrifices,” either burnt or roasted; it is a word of four letters. Others derive it from יהב, ieb, which signifies “to give gifts;” and hence they render thus, “sacrifices of my... read more

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 8:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 8:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 8:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 8:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 8:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 8:13

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 8:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 8:12

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 8:13

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