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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return. And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels. If men will sin, they shall suffer; and God’s people will be the first to suffer for their sins against the Lord, as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return. And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels. When men will have their own way, God sometimes lets them have their way, and that turns out to be the most unhappy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return. If we try to escape from our trouble without hearing the voice of God in it we shall run into another; if, by our own plotting and scheming, we escape from Egypt, then the Assyrian shall be our king, and there is small choice between...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the sword shall abide on the cities,.... Or "shall fall" (y), and continue; meaning the sword of the Assyrians, whereby Ephraim should be brought into subjection to them, and the king of Assyria become king over them; his sword should be drawn, and rest upon them, not only on their chief city Samaria, besieged three years by him, but upon all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the word shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels. That is a very striking expression, “Because of their own counsels.” It should be a solemn warning to us not to follow the devices of our own heart when we see the consequences of Israel’s walking after his own way.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And my people are bent to backsliding from me,.... There is a propensity in thorn to it, through prevailing corruption in them; they are inclined unto it, the bias of their minds is that way; they are bent upon it, and pertinaciously abide in it; nor will they be reclaimed from it, by all the means and methods made use of, even though they had...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt him. How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? There seems to be a contest in the heart of God; at least, that is how he describes it himself, as though mercy pleaded with justice, and love contended with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him. There is a propensity in the human heart to go away from God — even in the hearts of God’s own people. Oh! how sad it is that, though often called to God by the voice of Providence, and by the call of his Word, yet none at all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: They seemed as if they must do it, as if their hearts were set upon it; they were “bent” upon it. Oh, that our bent and bias were towards holiness, and not towards backsliding! Hos_11:7. Though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him. See how Israel puts God away, and will not...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? [how] shall I deliver thee, Israel?.... That is, as usually interpreted, into the hand of the enemy, or unto wrath, ruin, and destruction; for, notwithstanding all the sins of this people before observed, and the punishment threatened to be inflicted on them, the Lord is pleased here, and in the following verses,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? “I cannot destroy thee, as I destroyed the guilty cities of the plain in the days of old.” Hos_11:8. Mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. O backsliders, if God’s repentings are kindled, will not yours also be kindled? If you have left him, and yet he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. God represents himself as holding a controversy within himself, “These people I must punish. These people I love. I shall have to give them up. I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. And this divine turning and repenting, remember, were toward a people who did not turn to the Lord. God turned towards a people that would not turn...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger,.... That is, his wrath and fury to the uttermost; his people are deserving of his wrath as others, being by nature children of wrath as the rest; which they are sensible of under spiritual conviction, and therefore flee from it, where they may be safe: and though the Lord often chastises and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; — What a mercy this is for us! If the Lord had been man, he would have cast us off long ago; but, as he is God he is infinitely patient, and he loves to forgive: “I am God, and not man;” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city. They shall walk after the LORD: See what his almighty grace will do to make these wanderers come back to him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee. and I will not enter into the city. Remember that when God entered into Sodom and saw its sin, then he destroyed it; but he determines to have pity upon Samaria, and not to enter into it lest, seeing...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; Our hope lies in the fact that God is God. Sometimes, that truth is a terror to men; they are distressed at the thought of the great and holy God, yet in this truth is their only hope of salvation. The Lord says, “I will not return to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They shall walk after the Lord,.... That is, after the Messiah, who is Jehovah our righteousness; that Jehovah the Jews pierced, and now shall mourn at the sight of, being converted to him; for these are the chosen of God among that people, who in the latter day shall partake of the grace and favour before expressed, in consequence of which they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west. Even his roaring like a lion will only make them tremblingly come back to him.