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Hosea 13
Israel reproved for idolatry and other sins, ver. 1-8. Ruin
foretold, yet with encouragement to hope, ver. 9-16.
Verse 1. Ephraim - The ten tribes, of which Ephraim was the chief.
Spake trembling - Humbled himself before God. Exalted himself -
The kingdom flourished. When he offended - So soon as they
sinned, taking Baal to be their God. He died - They lost their
power and glory.
Verse 2. Of them - Of the idols. Let the man - Let all that bring their
offerings to these idols, worship and adore, and shew they do so
by kissing the calves.
Verse 4. Thou shalt know - I forbad thee to know any other God but me,
in gratitude thou shouldest know no other.
Verse 5. I did know - Owned, took care of, guided and supplied.
Verse 6. Their pasture - When they were come into Canaan, and had
abundance of all things, they ran into luxury. Was exalted - They
grew proud.
Verse 7. Observe them - Watch for them, that I might be sure to take
them.
Verse 8. Rent - First kill, then tear in pieces, and pull out the very heart.
Verse 10. Thy king - I would have been thy king to govern and save
thee, but thou refusedst me in both: yet I will be thy king to
punish thee. Thy Judges - Where are they now? And princes -
Necessary to assist the king.
Verse 11. A king - Such as Shallum, Menahem, Pekah.
Verse 12. Is bound up - As sins unpardoned; for to loose sins is to
forgive, and to bind sins is to charge them upon the sinner, Matt.
xvi, 19. Hid - Not from God, but laid up with God against the day
of recompense.
Verse 13. The sorrows - The punishment of his sins will overtake him
suddenly, with great anguish. An unwise son - A foolish son, who
endangers himself and his mother. He should not stay - As a child
that sticks in the birth, so is Ephraim, one while will, another
while will not return to God; and thus dies under the delay.
Verse 14. Ransom - By power and purchase, by the blood of the lamb of
God, and by the power of his Godhead. Them - That repent and
believe. From the grave - He conquered the grave, and will at the
great day of the resurrection open those prison-doors, and bring us
out in glory. From death - From the curse of the first death, and
from the second death, which shall have no power over us. Thy
plagues - Thus I will destroy death. I will pull down those prison-
walls, and bring out all that are confined therein, the bad of whom
I will remove into other prisons, the good I will restore to glorious
liberty. Repentance shall be hid - I will never, as a man that
repenteths, change my word and purpose, saith the Lord. What a
glorious promise is this, which is interposed in the midst of all
these judgments!
Verse 15. He - Ephraim. His brethren - Either the rest of the tribes, or
the nations who by league are become as his brethren. An east-
wind - An enemy as pernicious to his estate as the east-wind is to
fruits. Of the Lord - A mighty enemy, called here the wind of the
Lord, the usual superlative in Hebrew. The wilderness - Which
lay southeast from Canaan. The southeast winds in that country
were of all, most hot and blasting. He - The Assyrian army. Shall
spoil - Shall carry away all desirable vessels and furniture.
Chapter 13:
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