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The Book of Hosea
Chapter 8

Chapter Overview:


Almost every verse of this chapter speaks both the sins and punishment of Israel, ver. 1 - 14.
Verses:
8:1Set the trumpet - The Lord here commands the prophet to publish, as by sound of trumpet, that which God will bring upon apostate Israel.He - The king of Assyria. As an eagle - Swift, hungry, surmounting all difficulties. House of the Lord - The family of Israel, the Israelites church.
8:2Shall cry - But not sincerely.
8:4They - Israel. Kings - Shallum, Menahem, Pekah, and Hosea. Not by me - Not by my direction. Knew it not - Did not approve of it.
8:5Thy calf - The chief idol set up in Samaria.Cast thee off - Hath provoked God to cast thee off.Against them - Idols, and idol worshippers.How long - How long will it be, ere they repent and reform?
8:6From Israel - By their invention. It - Both the idol and the worshippers of it.
8:7Sown the wind - A proverbial speech to denote lost labour.Whirlwind - A tempest, which destroyeth all that is in its way; an emblem of the wrath of God. No stalk - All your dependance on idols, and foreign assistance, will be as seed that bear neither stalk nor bud.No meal - Or suppose it produced stalk and bud, yet the bud shall be blasted, and never yield meal.
8:9Gone up - Israel is like a wild ass. A wild ass - Stubborn, wild, untamed. Alone - Solitary, where is no path or tract; so they were in their captivity.
8:10Gather them - I will assemble them together, that they may be taken and destroyed together. A little - For a while before their final captivity. The burden - The tribute laid on them by the king.
8:11Altars - Those which they shall find in Assyria.To sin - Shall be the occasion of his greater guilt and punishment.
8:12Written - By Moses first, by other prophets afterwards.But they were counted - Israel looks on them, as nothing to them.
8:13They shall return - Many shall fly from the Assyrian into Egypt.
8:14Temples - Idol temples. Devour the palaces - This was fulfilled when all the cities of Judah and Israel were laid in ashes by the king of Assyria.