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Hosea 10:2-12

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2 Their heart is false; now they must bear [their] guilt. He himself will break down their altars; he will destroy their stone pillars.
3 For now they will say, "We have no king; indeed, we did not fear Yahweh, and what can a king do for us?"
4 They utter words of vain oaths [when] {making covenants}, and judgment blossoms like a poisonous plant on the furrows of the field.
5 The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, his people will mourn for it, and his idolatrous priests will wail over it-- over its glory because it has departed from it.
6 It will also be brought to Assyria, [as] tribute to [the] great king. Ephraim will obtain disgrace and Israel will be ashamed from his advice.
7 Samaria will be destroyed; her king [is] like a chip on the surface of the water.
8 The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. Thorn and thistle will grow on their altars. They will say to the mountains, "Cover us," and to the hills, "Fall on us."
9 From the days of Gibeah you have sinned, [O] Israel; there {they have remained}. Will not war in Gibeah overtake them against the children of evil?
10 In my desire I will punish them; nations will be gathered against them when they are punished for {their double iniquities}.
11 Ephraim [was] a trained heifer, that loved to thresh [grain], and I myself {spared} the fairness of her neck; I will make Ephraim break the ground, Judah will plow, Jacob must till for himself.
12 Sow for yourselves righteousness; {reap loyal love}. Break up for yourself fallow ground; [it is] time to seek Yahweh so he will come and rain righteousness upon you.
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Hosea 10:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO HOSEA 10

This chapter is of the same argument with the former, and others before that; setting forth the sins of the ten tribes, and threatening them with the judgments of God for them; and exhorting them to repentance, and works of righteousness. They are charged with unfruitfulness and ingratitude; increasing in idolatry, as they increased in temporal good things, Ho 10:1; with a divided heart, and with irreverence of God, and their king; and with false swearing, covenant breaking, and injustice, Ho 10:2-4; and are threatened with a removal of their king, and with the destruction of their idols, and places of idolatry, which should cause fear in the common people, and mourning among the priests, Ho 10:1,5-8. It is observed, that their sin had been of long continuance, though the Lord had been kind and good unto them, in chastising them in love, giving them good laws, sending his prophets to exhort them to repentance and reformation, but all in vain, Ho 10:9-13; wherefore they are threatened with the spoiling of their fortresses, the destruction of the people, and the cutting off of their king, Ho 10:14,15.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Footnotes 12

  • [a]. That is, "Yahweh himself"
  • [b]. Literally "cutting covenant"
  • [c]. Hebrew "inhabitant"
  • [d]. Hebrew "calves"
  • [e]. Or "rejoice"
  • [f]. See 5:13; some translate literally "King Jareb"
  • [g]. Or "counsel"
  • [h]. Literally "they stood"
  • [i]. The LXX translates "I will come"
  • [j]. So Qere; Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) "their two eyes"
  • [k]. Literally "passed over"
  • [l]. Literally "reap according to loyal love"
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