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Hosea 10:9-15

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9 From the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel; There they stand! Will not the battle against the sons of iniquity overtake them in Gibeah?
10 When it is My 1desire, I will 2chastise them; And 3the peoples will be gathered against them When they are bound for their double guilt.
11 Ephraim is a trained 4heifer that loves to thresh, But I will 5come over her fair neck with a yoke; I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, Jacob will harrow for himself.
12 6Sow with a view to righteousness, Reap in accordance with kindness; 7Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to 8seek the LORD Until He 9comes to 10rain righteousness on you.
13 You have 11plowed wickedness, you have reaped injustice, You have eaten the fruit of 12lies. Because you have trusted in your way, in your 13numerous warriors,
14 Therefore a tumult will arise among your people, And all your 14fortresses will be destroyed, As Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle, When 15mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.
15 Thus it will be done to you at Bethel because * of your great wickedness. At dawn the king of Israel will be completely cut off.
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Hosea 10:9-15 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

Cross References 15

  • 1. Ezekiel 5:13
  • 2. Hosea 4:9
  • 3. Jeremiah 16:16
  • 4. Jeremiah 50:11; Hosea 4:16; Micah 4:13
  • 5. Jeremiah 28:14
  • 6. Proverbs 11:18
  • 7. Jeremiah 4:3
  • 8. Hosea 12:6
  • 9. Hosea 6:3
  • 10. Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 45:8
  • 11. Job 4:8; Proverbs 22:8; Galatians 6:7, 8
  • 12. Hosea 4:2; Hosea 7:3; Hosea 11:12
  • 13. Psalms 33:16
  • 14. Isaiah 17:3
  • 15. Hosea 13:16

Footnotes 3

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