hosea-7:2-4

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 7:1-7

Some take away the last words of the foregoing chapter, and make them the beginning of this: ?When I returned, or would have returned, the captivity of my people, when I was about to come towards them in ways of mercy, even when I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim (the country and common people) was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, the court and the chief city.? Now, in these verses, we may observe, I. A general idea given of the present state of Israel, Hos.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:2

And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness ,.... That is, the people of the ten tribes, and the inhabitants of Samaria, whose iniquity and wickedness are said to be discovered, and to be very notorious: and yet "they said not to their hearts" F13 ובל יאמרו ללבבם "et non dicebant ad cor suum", Cocceius; "et non dicunt cordi suo", Schmidt. , as in the original text; they did not think within themselves; they did not commune with their own hearts;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:3

They make the king glad with their wickedness ,.... Not any particular king; not Jeroboam the first, as Kimchi; nor Jehu, as Grotius; if any particular king, rather Jeroboam the second; but their kings in general, as the Septuagint render it, in succession, one after another; who were highly delighted and pleased with the priests in offering sacrifice to the calves, and with the people in attending to that idolatrous worship, by which they hoped to secure the kingdom of Israel to themselves,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:4

They are all adulterers ,.... King, princes, priests, and people, both in a spiritual and corporeal sense; they were all idolaters, given to idols try, eager of it, and constant in it, as the following metaphors show; and they were addicted to corporeal adultery; this was a prevailing vice among all ranks and degrees of men. So the Targum, "they all desire to lie with their neighbours' wives;' see Jeremiah 5:7 ; as an oven heated by the baker ; which, if understood of spiritual... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:2

They consider not in their hearts - They do not consider that my eye is upon all their ways; they do not think that I record all their wickedness; and they know not their own evil doings are as a host of enemies encompassing them about. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:3

They make the king glad - They pleased Jeroboam by coming readily into his measures, and heartily joining with him in his idolatry. And they professed to be perfectly happy in their change, and to be greatly advantaged by their new gods; and that the religion of the state now was better than that of Jehovah. Thus, they made all their rulers, "glad with their lies." read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:4

As an oven heated by the baker - Calmet's paraphrase on this and the following verses expresses pretty nearly the sense: Hosea makes a twofold comparison of the Israelites; to an oven, and to dough. Jeroboam set fire to his own oven - his kingdom - and put the leaven in his dough; and afterwards went to rest, that the fire might have time to heat his oven, and the leaven to raise his dough, that the false principles which he introduced might infect the whole population. This prince,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:2

Verse 2 The Prophet shows here that the Israelites had advanced to the highest summit of all wickedness; for they thought that no account was ever to be given by them to God. Hence arises the contempt of God; that is, when men imagine that he is, as it were, sleeping in heaven, and that he rests from every work. They dare not indeed to deny God, and yet they take from him what especially belongs to his divinity, for they exclude him from the office of being a judge. Hence then it is that men... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:3

Verse 3 The Prophet now arraigns all the citizens of Samaria, and in their persons the whole people, because they rendered obedience to the king by flattery, and to the princes in wicked things, respecting which their own conscience convicted them. He had already in the fifth chapter mentioned the defection of the people in this respect, that they had obeyed the royal edict. It might indeed have appeared a matter worthy of praise, that the people had quietly embraced what the king commanded.... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:4

Verse 4 The Prophet pursues the same subject in this verse: he says that they were all adulterers. This similitude has already been often explained. He speaks not here of common fornication, but calls them adulterers, because they had violated their faith pledged to God, because they gave themselves up to filthy superstitions, and also, because they had wholly corrupted themselves, for faith and sincerity of heart constitute spiritual chastity before God. When men become corrupt in their whole... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 7:1-7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:4

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:2

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 7:4

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