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Hosea 12
A high charge against Israel and Judah for various sins, yet
with intimations of mercy, ver. 1-14.
Verse 1. Feedeth on wind - It is a proverbial speech; denoting his
supporting himself with hopes, as unfit to sustain him as the wind
is to feed us. Increaseth lies - By making new leagues, and
fortifying himself with them, against the menaces of God by his
prophets. Desolation - Which will only hasten and increase his
desolation. Oil - Not common oil for trade, but rich and precious
oils, to procure friendship there too.
Verse 2. Jacob - Ephraim and Judah are of Jacob, both have corrupted
themselves, and therefore I will proceed against both.
Verse 3. He - Jacob. Took his brother - The design of mentioning this is
to mind them of that goodness which God shewed them in their
father Jacob. His strength - This strength was not of nature, but of
grace. Strength received of God was well employed betimes; in it
he wrestled for and obtained the blessing.
Verse 4. The angel - Called ver. 3, God; and ver. 5, Jehovah, Lord of
hosts. He was no created angel, but the Messiah; eternal God by
nature and essence, angel by office, and voluntary undertaking.
He wept - He prayed with tears from a sense of his own
unworthiness, and with earnestness for the mercy he desired. He -
God. Him - Jacob full of weariness, fears, and solicitude on his
journey to Laban. He - God. With us - Being then in Jacob's loins.
Verse 5. The Lord God of hosts - He that appeared and spake, who
promised the blessing and commanded the reformation at Beth-el
was Jehovah, the eternal and unchangeable God; who can perform
his promise, and execute his threat, who is a most terrible enemy,
and most desirable friend. The Lord - Jehovah, repeated for
confirmation. His memorial - By this he will be known.
Verse 6. Turn - Repent, leave idols and all sins. He worshipped God
alone, do you so; he cast idols out of his family, do you so too; be
Jacob's children herein. Mercy - Shew kindness to all who need it.
Judgment - Wrong none; but with justice in dealings, in
judicatures; and public offices, render to every one their due. Wait
on thy God - In public worship and private duties serve and trust
God alone: let not idols have either sacrifice, prayer, praise, or
trust from you; and let your hope and worship, be for ever
continued.
Verse 7. A merchant - Ephraim is so far from being as Jacob, that you
may account him a Canaanite, a subtle merchant.
Verse 8. I am rich - Whatever is said, yet I get what I aim at. They shall
find - Yet he hugs himself in the apprehension of close carriage of
his affairs, so that no great crime can be found in him: none, that
is sin, that is any great enormity.
Verse 9. From Egypt - From the time I brought thee out of it. In
tabernacles - I have given thee all these blessings and comforts,
expressed proverbially in allusion to the joy which they had at the
feast of tabernacles.
Verse 10. Spoken - To warn them of their danger.
Verse 11. In Gilead - Tiglah Pileser had formerly took Gilead among
other towns, leading the inhabitants captive. By this the prophet
minds the Ephraimites what they must expect, and doth it in this
pungent question, Is there iniquity in Gilead? Is it there only? Be
it, Gilead was all iniquity; Gilgal is no better. They - They that
come up to Gilgal to sacrifice, are idolaters. In the furrows - They
are for number like heaps of stones, gathered out of plowed land
and laid in furrows.
Verse 12. Fled - For fear of Esau.
Verse 13. A prophet - By Moses. Israel - Your forefathers. Preserved -
In the wilderness. The aim of the prophet seems to be this, to
prevent their vain pride, and boasting of their ancestors.
Verse 14. His blood - He shall bear the punishment of all his blood; his
murders of the innocent, and his own guilt too. His reproach -
Which Ephraim hath cast upon the prophets, the worshippers of
God, and on God; preferring idols before him. His Lord - God
who is Lord of all.
Chapter 12:
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