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Hosea 9
The
Book of Hosea
Hosea 9:1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast
gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every corn
floor.
2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine
shall fail in her.
3 They shall not dwell in the Lord's land; but Ephraim shall return to
Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
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Ephraim = ten tribes = they're going back into
captivity
4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord, neither shall they be
pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of
mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for
their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord.
5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the
Lord?
6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them
up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver,
nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come;
Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad,
for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of
a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah:
therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as
the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor,
and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were
according as they loved.
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He said, They love to be taken over by stranger
11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the
birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that
there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from
them!
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There shall not be a man left = they don't know
God's Word
13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim
shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
14 Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.
15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the
wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will
love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
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The place where God was rejected, and man's king
set up; and where, on account of his impatience
and disobedience Saul got his first message of
his rejection. (1 Sam 13:4-15), and his second
(1 Sam 15:12-33)
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And all Israel heard say that Saul had
smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and
that Israel also was had in abomination with
the Philistines. And the people were called
together after Saul to Gilgal.
1Samuel 13:5
And the Philistines gathered themselves together
to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots,
and six thousand horsemen, and people as the
sand which is on the sea shore in
multitude: and they came up, and pitched in
Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven. 6 When
the men of Israel saw that they were in a
strait, (for the people were distressed,) then
the people did hide themselves in caves, and in
thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and
in pits. 7 And some of the Hebrews
went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead.
As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and
all the people followed him trembling.
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8 And he tarried seven days, according to the
set time that Samuel had appointed: but
Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were
scattered from him.
9 And Saul said, Bring
hither a burnt offering to me, and peace
offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.
10 And it came to pass, that as soon as he
had made an end of offering the burnt offering,
behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet
him, that he might salute him. 11 And Samuel
said, What hast thou done? And Saul said,
Because I saw that the people were scattered
from me, and that thou camest not within
the days appointed, and that the
Philistines gathered themselves together at
Michmash; 12 Therefore said I, The
Philistines will come down now upon me to
Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto
the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered
a burnt offering. 13 And Samuel said to
Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not
kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which
he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have
established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue:
the LORD hath sought him a man after his own
heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be
captain over his people, because thou hast not
kept that which the LORD commanded thee.
15 And Samuel arose, and gat him up from
Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul
numbered the people that were present with him,
about six hundred men.
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I hated them = have I come to hate them. For the
wickedness, etc.
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Their princes are revolters = Hebrew word
sareyhem . . . sorerim. It may be Englished by
"their rulers are unruly".
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Isaiah 1:23 Thy princes are
rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one
loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they
judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause
of the widow come unto them.
16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit:
yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of
their womb.
17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him:
and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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