Contain a fresh description of Israel's apostasy. To this the prophet is led by the preceding train of thought. When he called to mind the earnestness of the patriarch to obtain the blessing, the sincerity of his repentance, and the evidences of conversion, consisting in mercy and judgment and constant waiting on God, he looks around on Israel, and finding those virtues conspicuous by their absence; he repeats the story of their degeneracy.
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Hosea 12:7-14
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commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Hosea 12:1-14EXPOSITION In Hosea 12:1-6 God continues his complaint against Ephraim, charging them specially with the pursuit of vain and futile courses to their great detriment. Instead of repairing to the true and everlasting sour…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryMatthew Henry on Hosea 12:7-14Ephraim became a merchant: the word also signifies a Canaanite. They carried on trade upon Canaanitish principles, covetously and with fraud and deceit. Thus they became rich, and falsely supposed that Providence favour…Matthew HenrycommentaryReproof for Sin; Judgment Threatened; Memorials of Divine Mercy. (b. c. 723.)REPROOF FOR SIN; JUDGMENT THREATENED; MEMORIALS OF DIVINE MERCY. (B. C. 723.) Here are intermixed, in these verses, I. Reproofs for sin. When God is coming forth to contend with a people, that he may demonstrate his own…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Hosea 12:7-10Extent of Israel's apostasy. I. Here we are shown now FOR ISRAEL HAD APOSTATIZED, how unlike they were to the patriarch of whom they boasted, and how far they fell short of admonitions that had been addressed to) them.…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Hosea 12:7-14Three painful contrasts. In this strophe the threatening of punishment is again repeated (Hosea 12:14). Ephraim's blood-guiltiness is to be left upon him; i.e. his sin is not to be pardoned. The "reproach" or dishonor w…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Hosea 12:7-11Balances of deceit. In the manner of his acquisition of wealth, Ephraim conjoined deceit and oppression. He was dishonest in trade. He oppressed the poor. He was a better imitator of Jacob in his act of laying hold of h…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Hosea 12:7He is a merchant (margin, Canaan), the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. This verse is more exactly rendered, Canaan is he, in his hand are the balances of deceit: he loveth to oppress. How the s…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Hosea 12:7-9Fortunes badly used, badly made, and badly ended. "He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labors…Joseph S. Exell and contributors