Hosea 10:7
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Samaria’s king will be destroyed, swept away like a twig on the surface of the waters.
Read Hosea 10:7 Using Other Translations
As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
Samaria's king shall perish like a twig on the face of the waters.
Samaria and its king will be cut off; they will float away like driftwood on an ocean wave.
What does Hosea 10:7 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Hosea 10:7
as any light thing flowing upon it; as the bark of a tree, as Kimchi and Abarbinel; or as the scum upon a boiling pot of water, as Jarchi, and the Targum; or as foam, which is an assemblage of bubbles upon the water; such are kings and kingdoms, swell, look big and high for a while; but are mere bubbles, empty things; and are often suddenly, quickly, and easily destroyed; so Samaria and her king were by the Assyrian army; the Lord of hosts, the King of kings, being against them.
[As for] Samaria
The metropolis of the ten tribes of Israel, and here put for the
whole kingdom: her king is cut off;
which some understand of Pekah, who was killed by Hoshea; others
of several of their kings cut off one after another, very
suddenly and quickly, as the metaphor after used shows; or rather
Hoshea the last king is meant, who was cut off by the king of
Assyria; the present tense is used for the future, to denote the
certainty of it. Aben Ezra thinks the verb "cut off" is to be
repeated, Samaria is "cut off, her king [is] cut off"; both king
and kingdom destroyed. So the Targum,
``Samaria is cut off with her king:''as the foam upon the water;
as any light thing flowing upon it; as the bark of a tree, as Kimchi and Abarbinel; or as the scum upon a boiling pot of water, as Jarchi, and the Targum; or as foam, which is an assemblage of bubbles upon the water; such are kings and kingdoms, swell, look big and high for a while; but are mere bubbles, empty things; and are often suddenly, quickly, and easily destroyed; so Samaria and her king were by the Assyrian army; the Lord of hosts, the King of kings, being against them.
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