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<p id="Chapter9" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 9
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<p id="Ho9_1"><a onclick="return mV('Hsa',9,'1-17');">Hsa 9:1-17</a>. WARNING AGAINST ISRAEL'S JOY AT PARTIAL RELIEF FROM THEIR TROUBLES: THEIR CROPS SHALL FAIL, AND THE PEOPLE LEAVE THE LORD'S LAND FOR EGYPT AND ASSYRIA, WHERE THEY CANNOT, IF SO INCLINED, SERVE GOD ACCORDING TO THE ANCIENT RITUAL: FOLLY OF THEIR FALSE PROPHETS.
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<p><b>1. Rejoice not...for joy</b>—literally, "to exultation." Thy exultation at the league with Pul, by which peace seems secured, is out of place: since thy idolatry will bring ruin on thee.
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<br><br><b>as other people</b>—the Assyrians for instance, who, unlike thee, are in the height of prosperity.
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<br><br><b>loved a reward upon every corn floor</b>—Thou hast desired, in <i>reward</i> for thy homage to idols, abundance of corn on every threshing-floor (<a onclick="return mV('Hsa',2,12);">Hsa 2:12</a>).
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<p id="Ho9_2"><b>2.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Hsa',2,9,12);">Hsa 2:9-12</a>;).
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<br><br><b>fail</b>—disappoint her expectation.
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<p id="Ho9_3"><b>3. return to Egypt</b>—(See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Hsa/Hsa008.html#Ho8_13">Ho 8:13</a>). As in <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',11,5);">Hsa 11:5</a> it is said, "He shall <i>not return</i> into ...Egypt." FAIRBAIRN thinks it is not the exact country that is meant, but the <i>bondage state</i> with which, from past experience, Egypt was identified in their minds. Assyria was to be a second Egypt to them. <a onclick="return mV('Deu',28,68);">Deu 28:68</a>, though threatening a return to Egypt, speaks (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',28,36);">Deu 28:36</a>) of their being brought to a nation which <i>neither they nor their fathers had known,</i> showing that it is not the literal Egypt, but a second Egypt-like bondage that is threatened.
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<br><br><b>eat unclean things in Assyria</b>—reduced by necessity to eat meats pronounced unclean by the Mosaic law (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',4,13);">Eze 4:13</a>). See <a onclick="return mV('2Ki',17,6);">2Ki 17:6</a>.
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<p id="Ho9_4"><b>4. offer wine offerings</b>—literally, "pour as a libation (<a onclick="return mV('Exd',30,9);">Exd 30:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Lev',23,13);">Lev 23:13</a>).
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<br><br><b>neither shall they be pleasing unto him</b>—as being offered on a profane soil.
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<br><br><b>sacrifices...as the bread of mourners</b>—which was unclean (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',26,14);">Deu 26:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',16,7);">Jer 16:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',24,17);">Eze 24:17</a>).
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<br><br><b>their bread for their soul</b>—their offering for the expiation of their soul [CALVIN], (<a onclick="return mV('Lev',17,11);">Lev 17:11</a>). Rather, "their bread for their sustenance ('soul' being often used for <i>the animal life,</i> <a href= "#" onclick="return mV('Gen',14,21);">Gen 14:21</a>, <i>Margin</i>) shall not come into the Lord's house"; it shall only subserve their own uses, not My worship.
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<p id="Ho9_5"><b>5.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Hsa',2,11);">Hsa 2:11</a>).
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<p id="Ho9_6"><b>6. because of destruction</b>—to escape from the devastation of their country.
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<br><br><b>Egypt shall gather them up</b>—that is, into its sepulchres (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',8,2);">Jer 8:2</a> <a onclick="return mV('Eze',29,5);">Eze 29:5</a>). Instead of returning to Palestine, they should die in Egypt.
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<br><br><b>Memphis</b>—famed as a necropolis.
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<br><br><b>the pleasant <i>places</i> for their silver</b>—that is, their desired treasuries for their money. Or, "whatever precious thing they have of silver" [MAURER].
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<br><br><b>nettles</b>—the sign of desolation (<a href= "#" onclick="return mV('Isa',34,13);">Isa 34:13</a>).
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<p id="Ho9_7"><b>7. visitation</b>—vengeance: punishment (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',10,3);">Isa 10:3</a>).
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<br><br><b>Israel shall know it</b>—to her cost experimentally (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',9,9);">Isa 9:9</a>).
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<br><br><b>the prophet is a fool</b>—The false prophet who foretold prosperity to the nation shall be convicted of folly by the event.
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<br><br><b>the spiritual man</b>—the man pretending to inspiration (<a onclick="return mV('Lam',2,14);">Lam 2:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',13,3);">Eze 13:3</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mic',3,11);">Mic 3:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zep',3,4);">Zep 3:4</a>).
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<br><br><b>for the multitude of thine iniquity,</b> etc.—Connect these words with, "the days of visitation...are come"; "the prophet...is mad," being parenthetical.
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<br><br><b>the great hatred</b>—or, "the great provocation" [HENDERSON]; or, "(thy) great apostasy" [MAURER]. <i>English Version</i> means Israel's "<i>hatred</i>" of God's prophets and the law.
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<p id="Ho9_8"><b>8. The watchman...was with my God</b>—The spiritual watchmen, the true prophets, formerly consulted my God (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',31,6);">Jer 31:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hab',2,1);">Hab 2:1</a>); but their so-called <i>prophet</i> is a snare, entrapping Israel into idolatry.
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<br><br><b>hatred</b>—rather, "(a cause of) apostasy" (see <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',9,7);">Hsa 9:7</a>) [MAURER].
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<br><br><b>house of his God</b>—that is, the state of Ephraim, as in <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',8,1);">Hsa 8:1</a> [MAURER]. Or, "the house of his (false) god," the calves [CALVIN]. Jehovah, "<i>my</i> God," seems contrasted with "<i>his</i> God." CALVIN'S view is therefore preferable.
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<p id="Ho9_9"><b>9. as in the days of Gibeah</b>—as in the day of the perpetration of the atrocity of Gibeah, narrated in <a onclick="return mV('Jdg',19,'16-22');">Jdg 19:16-22</a>, etc.
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<p id="Ho9_10"><b>10.</b> As the traveller in a wilderness is delighted at finding grapes to quench his thirst, or the early fig (esteemed a great delicacy in the East, <a onclick="return mV('Isa',28,4);">Isa 28:4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',24,2);">Jer 24:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mic',7,1);">Mic 7:1</a>); so it was My delight to choose your fathers as My peculiar people in Egypt (<a href= "#" onclick="return mV('Hsa',2,15);">Hsa 2:15</a>).
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<br><br><b>at her first time</b>—when the first-fruits of the tree become ripe.
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<br><br><b>went to Baal-peor</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Num',25,3);">Num 25:3</a>): the Moabite idol, in whose worship young women prostituted themselves; the very sin Israel latterly was guilty of.
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<br><br><b>separated themselves</b>—consecrated themselves.
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<br><br><b>unto that shame</b>—to that shameful or foul idol (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',11,13);">Jer 11:13</a>).
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<br><br><b>their abominations were according as they loved</b>—rather, as <i>Vulgate,</i> "they became abominable like the object of their love" (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',7,26);">Deu 7:26</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',115,8);">Psa 115:8</a>). <i>English Version</i> gives good sense, "their abominable idols they followed after, according as their lusts prompted them" (<a onclick="return mV('Amo',4,5);">Amo 4:5</a>, <i>Margin</i>).
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<p id="Ho9_11"><b>11. their glory shall fly away</b>—fit retribution to those who "separated themselves unto that <i>shame</i>" (<a onclick="return mV('Hsa',9,10);">Hsa 9:10</a>). Children were accounted the <i>glory</i> of parents; sterility, a reproach. "Ephraim" means "fruitfulness" (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',41,52);">Gen 41:52</a>); this its name shall cease to be its characteristic.
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<br><br><b>from the birth...womb...conception</b>—Ephraim's children shall perish in a threefold gradation; (1) From the time of birth. (2) From the time of pregnancy. (3) From the time of their first conception.
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<p id="Ho9_12"><b>12.</b> Even though they should rear their children, yet will I bereave them (the Ephraimites) of them (<a onclick="return mV('Job',27,14);">Job 27:14</a>).
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<br><br><b>woe...to them when I depart</b>—Yet the ungodly in their madness desire God to depart from them (<a onclick="return mV('Job',21,14);">Job 21:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Job',22,17);">22:17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',8,34);">Mat 8:34</a>). At last they know to their cost how awful it is when God has departed (<a href= "#" onclick="return mV('Deu',31,17);">Deu 31:17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Sa',28,15,16);">1Sa 28:15-16</a>; compare <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',9,11);">Hsa 9:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Sa',4,21);">1Sa 4:21</a>).
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<p id="Ho9_13"><b>13. Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus...in a pleasant place</b>—that is, in looking towards Tyrus (on whose borders Ephraim lay) I saw Ephraim beautiful in situation like her (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',26,'1-');">Eze 26:1 - 28:26</a>).
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<br><br><b>is planted</b>—as a <i>fruitful</i> tree; image suggested by the meaning of "Ephraim" (<a onclick="return mV('Hsa',9,11);">Hsa 9:11</a>).
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<br><br><b>bring forth his children to the murderer</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Hsa',9,16);">Hsa 9:16</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',13,16);">Hsa 13:16</a>). With all his fruitfulness, his children shall only be brought up to be slain.
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<p id="Ho9_14"><b>14. what wilt thou give?</b>—As if overwhelmed by feeling, he deliberates with God what is most desirable.
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<br><br><b>give...a miscarrying womb</b>—Of two evils he chooses the least. So great will be the calamity, that barrenness will be a blessing, though usually counted a great misfortune (<a onclick="return mV('Job',3,3);">Job 3:3</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',20,14);">Jer 20:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Luk',23,29);">Luk 23:29</a>).
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<p id="Ho9_15"><b>15. All their wickedness</b>—that is, their chief guilt.
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<br><br><b>Gilgal</b>—(see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Hsa/Hsa004.html#Ho4_15">Ho 4:15</a>). This was the scene of their first contumacy in rejecting God and choosing a king (<a onclick="return mV('1Sa',11,14,15);">1Sa 11:14-15</a>; compare <a onclick="return mV('1Sa',8,7);">1Sa 8:7</a>), and of their subsequent idolatry.
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<br><br><b>there I hated them</b>—not with the human passion, but holy hatred of their sin, which required punishment to be inflicted on themselves (compare <a onclick="return mV('Mal',1,3);">Mal 1:3</a>).
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<br><br><b>out of mine house</b>—as in <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',8,1);">Hsa 8:1</a>: out of the land holy unto ME. Or, as "love" is mentioned immediately after, the reference may be to the Hebrew mode of divorce, the husband (God) putting the wife (Israel) out of the house.
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<br><br><b>princes...revolters</b>—"<i>Sarim...Sorerim</i>" (<i>Hebrew</i>), a play on similar sounds.
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<p id="Ho9_16"><b>16.</b> The figures "root," "fruit," are suggested by the word "Ephraim," that is, <i>fruitful</i> (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Hsa/Hsa009.html#Ho9_11">Ho 9:11</a>, <a href="./Comm/jfb/Hsa/Hsa009.html#Ho9_12">Ho 9:12</a>). "Smitten," namely, with a blight (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',102,4);">Psa 102:4</a>).
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<p id="Ho9_17"><b>17. My God</b>—"My," in contrast to "them," that is, the people, whose God Jehovah no longer is. Also Hosea appeals to God as supporting his authority against the whole people.
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<br><br><b>wanderers among...nations</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('2Ki',15,29);">2Ki 15:29</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Ch',5,26);">1Ch 5:26</a>).
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