Hosea 13:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. ”

• Hosea 13:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Samaria shall become desolate - Or “shall bear her iniquity.” Her iniquity should now find her out, and rest upon her. Of this, “desolation” was, in God’s judgments, the consequence. Samaria, “th...

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• Hosea 13:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Hosea 13:1-16 (= Heb. Hosea 13:1 to Hosea 14:1 ). Facilis descensus Averno. Israel has persistently lapsed into the Baal-worship and idolatry, and therefore shall be swept away as the chaff...

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• Hosea 13:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Samaria. See 2 Kings 17:6 . their. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "and their".

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• Hosea 13:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  This is the conclusion of the discourse: this verse has then been improperly separated from the former chapter (99); for the Prophet enters not here on a new subject, but only confirms what he...

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• Hosea 13:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. Samaria sha...

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• Hosea 13:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. Sam...

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• Hosea 13:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Israel's Idolatry and its Consequences The main thought of this c., which is a continuation of the last (cp. Hosea 12:9 ; Hosea 13:4 ), is the folly of Israel incurring the enmity of God, who ha...

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• Hosea 13:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Fruitful. — Observe the play on Ephraim’s name. Wind of the Lord stands in apposition to east wind. Render a wind of the Lord rising from the wilderness. The armies of Assyria are referred t...

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• Hosea 13:16 - 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...

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• Hosea 13:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “I Will Heal Their Backsliding” Hosea 13:15-16 ; Hosea 14:1-9 The prophet here ransacks the world of nature for phrases sufficiently expressive of his transports of joy. The whole world seems...

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• Hosea 13:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Turning from this main line of the divine message, we now examine the prophet's interpolations. These set forth the history of Israel indicating their relation to Jehovah, and pronounce judgment. The...

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• Hosea 13:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Some have thought that it is the Lord Jesus Christ that is spoken of as fruitful among his brethren. And no doubt Christ is abundantly fruitful; as Jacob prophesied of him, as a fruitful bough whose...

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• Hosea 13:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Samaria shall become desolate ,.... With this verse the fourteenth chapter begins in the Hebrew copies, and in the Targum, and in many versions; but seems better to conclude the present chapter; sin...

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• Hosea 13:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. Ver. 16....

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• Hosea 13:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Samaria shall become desolate, for she hath rebelled , &c. The prophet foretels the final destruction of Samaria, for her idolatry and other impieties, by Shalmaneser, king of Assyria. Their in...

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• Hosea 13:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Folly of Israel; Promises of Mercy. B. C. 722.       9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thy...

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• Hosea 13:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Samaria, the chief or royal city of the kingdom of Israel, shall become desolate; besieged, taken, plundered, and sacked, probably it was razed to the foundation, by the Assyrians, provoked by th...

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• Hosea 13:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Because Ephraim Have Offended So Deeply, And Have Rejected Their Deliverer, Judgment Upon Them Is Inevitable ( Hosea 13:1-16 ). The crimes of Israel are again laid bear. They are guilty of idolatr...

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• Hosea 13:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.] Hosea 13:10 . Where ] thy king to save when Assyrians attack cities? Where thy judges who surround the king and help to administer right? God gave and God punished them through...

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• Hosea 13:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hosea 13:2 . Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. The readings vary here. The LXX, “You must sacrifice men, for there are no more calves.” The Vulgate Latin reads, “Sacrifice the men that w...

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• Hosea 13:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The first eight verses of this chapter form the premises from which the prophet, in the ninth verse, draws the conclusion that the conduct of Israel had been suicidal; that they had b...

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• Hosea 13:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Retribution Coming

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• Hosea 13:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Kings 15:16 ; 2 Kings 17:18 ; 2 Kings 17:6 ; 2 Kings 19:9-11 ; 2 Kings 8:12 ; Amos 1:13 ; Amos 3:9-15 ; Amos 4:1 ; Amos 6:1-8 ; Amos 9:1 ; Hosea 10:14 ; Hosea 10:15 ; Isaiah 13:16 ; I...

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