Hosea 12:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He is a merchant,b the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. ”

Hosea 12:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He is a merchant - Or, indignantly, “a merchant in whose hands are the balances of deceit!” How could they love “mercy and justice,” whose trade was “deceit,” who weighed out deceit with their go...
Hosea 12:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

[He is] (g) a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress. (g) As for Ephraim, he is more like the wicked Canaanites than godly Abraham or Jacob.
Hosea 12:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 11:12 to Hosea 12:14 (= Hebrews 12:1-15 ). Ephraim's Infidelity Traced from the Beginning. This is one of the most difficult passages in Hosea. In the text Judah also is mentioned; but...
Hosea 12:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

He is. merchant. Supply the Ellipsis (App-6): [He, Ephraim, is]. merchant. This is the first of two provocations. See the Structure above; and Compare Hosea 12:14 . the balances of deceit . un...
Hosea 12:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

But while the Prophet exhorted the Israelites to repentance, he adds, that such was their perverseness, that it was done without any fruit. Canaan! he says; I read this by itself; for what so...
Hosea 12:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. He is a merchant - Or a Canaanite; referring to the Phoenicians, famous for their traffic. Ephraim is as corrupt as...
Hosea 12:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

He is a merchant, &c.— Canaan holds the balances of deceit in his hands; Ephraim is so called, because he imitates the practice of fraudulent merchants.
Hosea 12:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. He is a merchant - a play on the double sense of the Hebrew, "Canaan," i:e., a Canaanite and a "merchant" ( Eze...
Hosea 12:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A Reproof of Commercial Dishonesty The Hebrew text divides the chapter more correctly at this v. The prophet returns to the subject of the unfaithfulness both of Israel and of Judah. They have sou...
Hosea 12:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

He is a merchant. — The vivid and fierce light of the prophet’s words is obscured in the English version. The rendering “he is a merchant” originates from the fact that Canaan (rendered “merchant”)...
Hosea 12:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE FINAL ARGUMENT Hosea 12:1-14 - Hosea 14:1 THE impassioned call with which the last chapter closed was by no means an assurance of salvation: "How am I to give thee, up, Ephraim? how am I...
Hosea 12:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Turn to God, not to Selfish Gain Hosea 11:12 ; Hosea 12:1-14 Though Judah still ruled with God, Hosea 11:12 , yet there was grave fault in him, and, like Ephraim, which had been engaging the...
Hosea 12:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the second movement Jehovah set the present sin in the light of His present love. The sin of Ephraim and the sin of Judah, if the marginal reading be adopted, are both declared. The sin of Ephraim...
Hosea 12:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The Prophet here follows up the just and becoming resolution which ought to take place in every heart of Jacob's children, whether Ephraim or Judah, in pursuing the steps of their father. And he goes...
Hosea 12:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

[He is] a merchant ,.... Here is a change of person from "thou" to "he", from Judah to Ephraim, who is said to be a "merchant"; and if that was all, there is nothing worthy of dispraise in it; but h...
Hosea 12:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hosea 12:7 [He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress. Ver. 7. He is a merchant ] Heb. He is Canaan that is, a mere natural man, Ezekiel 16:3 , money mer...
Hosea 12:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He is a merchant , &c. Bishop Horsley renders this verse thus: Canaan the trafficker! The cheating balances in his hand! He has set his heart upon over-reaching! On which the bishop observes,...
Hosea 12:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Reproof for Sin; Judgment Threatened; Memorials of Divine Mercy. B. C. 723. 7 He is...
Hosea 12:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He is a merchant; Ephraim, of whom here, is so far from being Jacob, or as Jacob, that you may call and account him a Canaanite, a subtle merchant. The balances of deceit are in his hand; what he...
Hosea 12:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH Makes A Further Appeal To Ephraim And Judah On The Basis Of What Their Ancestor Jacob Did ( Hosea 12:1-7 ). Having first stressed Ephraim's total folly and unacceptable deceitfulness, and the...
Hosea 12:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Hosea 12:7 . Merchant] Marg. a Canaanite, a heathen, unlike Israel, to whom Canaanites were a reproach ( Ezekiel 16:3 ). Oppress ] Lit. deceive. Men whose trade is deceit, whos...
Hosea 12:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 12:4 . He found him in Bethel. Christ, the angel, the mystical angel, or the Angel the Word, as St. Clemens of Alexandria calls him: so indeed do all the orthodox fathers. The church knows o...
Hosea 12:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress, etc. Fortunes I. Fortunes badly used. 1. Here there is no recognition of human co-operation. No man comes in p...
Hosea 12:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION In Hosea 12:1-28 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 t...
Hosea 12:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

He is a merchant, rather, "Canaan," the name here applied to the northern kingdom, since, like a dishonest merchant, he sought greatness by deceit and oppression, the balances of deceit are in his h...
Hosea 12:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 12:3 ; 1 Timothy 6:10 ; 1 Timothy 6:9 ; Amos 2:7 ; Amos 3:9 ; Amos 4:1 ; Amos 5:11 ; Amos 8:5 ; Amos 8:6 ; Ezekiel 16:3 ; Ezekiel 22:29 ; Isaiah 3:5 ; James 5:4 ; John 2:16 ;...
Hosea 12:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A merchant — Ephraim is so far from being as Jacob, that you may account him a Canaanite, a subtle merchant.

Hosea 12:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hosea 12:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Hosea 12:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 12:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Hosea 12:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 12:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Hosea 12:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Hosea 12:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Hosea 12:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 12:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hosea 12:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Hosea 12:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Hosea 12:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hosea 12:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hosea 12:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hosea 12:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hosea 12:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 12:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hosea 12:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hosea 12:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 12:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Hosea 12:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 12:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Hosea 12:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Hosea 12:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hosea 12:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 12:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes