Hosea 9 Study Notes
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9:11-12 Ephraim’s glory was the Lord, whose departure would end their fertility and cause them woe.
9:13 God had placed both Ephraim and Tyre in surroundings in which they should have flourished (meadow is figurative; Ezk 17:5-8), but both had turned to Baal worship and practiced child sacrifice. Both Tyre and Samaria were besieged by the Assyrian king Shalmaneser V. Both cities fell to Sargon II of Assyria in 722 BC.
9:14 The prophet asks the Lord to give Israel what they deserve: the opposite of Jacob’s blessing in Gn 49:25: “blessings of the breasts and the womb.”
9:15-17 Just as vv. 10-14 begin with an allusion to Baal-peor, these verses begin with an allusion to Gilgal (cp. 4:15; 12:11), a town so full of evil that God had rejected them (hate in v. 15 = reject in v. 17).