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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Hosea 13 This chapter begins with observing the different state and condition of Ephraim before and after his idolatry, Hosea 13:1; his increase in it, Hosea 13:2; and therefore his prosperity was very short lived, which is signified by various metaphors, Hosea 13:3; and his sins are aggravated by the former goodness of God unto...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel,.... Or, with trembling, as Jarchi: so Jeroboam, who was of the tribe of Ephraim, spake before Solomon, a great king, as he observes. R. Moses the priest interprets it of Jeroboam; but it may be understood of the tribe in general, and especially of the heads of it, at anytime before it...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
The same strings, though generally unpleasing ones, are harped upon in this chapter that were in those before. People care not to be told either of their sin or of their danger by sin; and yet it is necessary, and for their good, that they should be told of both, nor can they better hear of either than from the word of God and from their faithful...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died. A modest, humble, trembling heart is often by far the sounder heart, but when we begin to sin, and to sin boastfully, and to wrap ourselves about with the robe of self-complacency, then is death very near to us: “When Ephraim spake trembling, he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; When we are little in our own esteem, when we are full of fears concerning ourselves, when we dare not think of boasting, then it is that we grow: “When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel.” Hos_13:1. But when he offended in Baal, he died. It is when, like Ephraim, we...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And now they sin more and more,.... Since the times of Jeroboam, and also of Ahab, adding other deities to the calves, and to Baal, as follows; increasing the number of their idols, and their idolatrous sacrifices, rites, and ceremonies: this they did in the times the prophet, who prophesied after the times of as it is common with evil men and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the word of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. When Jeroboam became king of the new kingdom of Israel, — in order to prevent his subjects from going to Jerusalem to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now they sin more and more, That is the usual way of sin; it is a growing evil; its course is downhill. Hos_13:2. And have made there molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. Their idolatry was such that they...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud,.... Which, however promising it is, soon disappears when the sun is risen; signifying that the idolatrous Israelites, king, priests, and people, should be no more; their kingdom would cease, all their riches and wealth would depart from them, and they and their children be carried captive into a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney. Those who will have gods of their own making shall have but a brief enjoyment of them. He who truly worships the everlasting God shall have an everlasting...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney. If they make idols their gods, they shall be like their idols. Idols are but for a day; what is there in them of endurance? What is there in them of power? “They...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Yet I [am] the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt,.... Which brought thee out from thence, as the Targum; and ever since, from that time to this, had shown a regard unto them, as the Lord their God, both in the wilderness, as later mentioned, and in the land of Canaan, where they had been continued, and followed with instances of goodness to that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no Saviour beside me. I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. The Israelites drew near to God when they wanted bread and water in the wilderness. God says, “I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought;” and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me. Now here is the wickedness of idolatry, that we have so good a God, and yet must needs look after another. Here is the sin of trusting to an arm of flesh, that we have an almighty arm to lean upon, and instead of doing so we...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I did know thee in the wilderness,.... Where there were no food nor drink, where were scorpions, serpents, and beasts of prey; there the Lord knew them, owned them, and showed a fatherly affection for them, and care of them; and fed them with manna and quails, and guided and directed them in the way, and protected and preserved them from their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. Look back upon days of your trouble, when God was very near to you; do you not remember when he was everything to you? When you were poor, when you were sick, when you were despised, God did know you then; yet now you sing,- “What peaceful hours I once enjoyed, How sweet their memory...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
According to their pasture, so were they filled,.... When they came into the land of Canaan, which was a land flowing with milk and honey, they were like a flock of sheep brought from short commons to a good pasture; and there they tilled themselves to the fail, and indulged to luxury and excess, pampered themselves, and made provision for the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me. Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them: I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me. What a terrible verse this is! After they had been filled, they turned away from the God that filled them. When they were poor and despised, then he was all to them; but afterwards, when by his providence they grew rich...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore I will be unto them as a lion, Because of their idolatry, ingratitude, luxury, and especially their forgetfulness of God, which is last mentioned, and with which the words are connected. By this and the following metaphors are set forth the severity of God's judgments upon them for their sins, and their utter destruction by them. Some...