Hosea 9:1-6

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 9:1-6

Here, I. The people of Israel are charged with spiritual adultery: O Israel! thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, Hos. 9:1. Their covenant with God was a marriage-covenant, by which they were joined to him as their God, renouncing all others. But when they set up idols and worshipped them, when they fled to creatures for succour and put a confidence in them, they went a whoring from God as their God, and honoured the pretenders and rivals with the affection, adoration, and confidence, which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 9:1

Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people ,.... But rather mourn and lament, since such a load of guilt lay upon them, and they had so highly provoked the Lord to anger by their sins, and punishment would quickly be inflicted on them; and though they might be now in prosperity, through Jeroboam's success against their enemies, who by his victories had enlarged their border; yet they should not rejoice at it, as other people used to do on such occasions, by illumination of houses,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 9:2

The floor and the winepress shall not feed them ,.... Though their expectations from their worship of idols were large, they should find themselves mistaken; for there would not be a sufficiency of corn on the floor, nor of wine in the press, to supply them with what was necessary for their sustenance; either through a blight upon their fields and vineyards, or through the invasion of an enemy, treading them down, and spoiling and foraging them: or else supposing a sufficient quantity of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 9:3

They shall not dwell in the Lord's land ,.... The land of Israel, or Canaan; which, though all the earth is the Lord's, was peculiarly his; which he had chosen for himself, and for this people; where he had his temple, and caused his Shechinah or divine Majesty to dwell in a very special manner, and where his worship and service were performed. So the Targum calls it the land of the Shechinah or majesty of the Lord. Sometimes it is called Immanuel's land, where the Messiah Immanuel, God with... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 9:4

They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord ,.... This is either a threatening of the cessation of sacrifices, being carried into Assyria, a strange land, where it was not lawful to offer sacrifice, there being no temple nor altar to offer in or at; and so as they would not offer to the Lord when they should, now they shall not if they would: or this respects not, the future time of their exile, but their present time now, as Kimchi observes; and so is a reproof of their present... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 9:5

What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord? Since their sacrifices now were so disagreeable and displeasing to the Lord, and so unavailable to themselves, what would they do when in captivity, "in the solemn day", the seventh day of the week, appointed by the Lord for rest and religious worship; and in the first day of the month, which also was to be solemnly observed, by offering sacrifice, &c.; and on feast days of the Lord's instituting, as the feasts... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 9:6

For, lo, they are gone, because of destruction ,.... That is, many of the people of Israel were gone out of their own land to others, particularly to Egypt, because of the destruction that was coming upon them, and to avoid it; because of the Assyrian army which invaded their land, and besieged Samaria, and threatened them with entire destruction; and upon which a famine ensued, and which is thought by Kimchi to be here particularly meant; Egypt shall gather them up : being dead; for... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 9:1

Rejoice not - Do not imitate the heathens, nor serve their idols. Do not prostitute thy soul and body in practicing their impurities. Hitherto thou hast acted as a common harlot, who goes even to the common threshing places; connects herself with the meanest, in order to get a hire even of the grain there threshed out. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 9:3

But Ephraim shall return to Egypt - See on Hosea 8:12 ; (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 9:4

As the bread of mourners - By the law, a dead body, and every thing that related to it, the house where it lay, and the persons who touched it, were all polluted and unclean, and whatever they touched was considered as defiled. See Deuteronomy 26:14 ; Numbers 19:11 , Numbers 19:13 , Numbers 19:14 . For their bread for their soul - The bread for the common support of life shall not be sanctified to them by having the first-fruits presented at the temple. read more

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