“ Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. ”
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people - i. e., with the pagan; he “mixed” or “mingled” himself among or with them, so as to corrupt himself, as it is said, “they were mingled among the...
Ephraim, he hath (f) mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. (f) That is, he counterfeited the religion of the Gentiles, yet is but as a cake baked on the one side, and raw on...
Hosea 7:8 to Hosea 8:3 . Political Decay the Outward Sign of Israel's Moral Decay. The attempts to cure national ills and secure safety by foreign aid, instead of by turning to Yahweh, are fored...
people . peoples, or nations. a cake not turned: i.e.. thin (pan)cake, burnt one side and moist the other, and therefore uneatable.
God now complains, that Ephraim, whom he had chosen to be a peculiar possession to himself, differed nothing from other nations. The children of Abraham, we know, had been adopted by God for th...
DISCOURSE: 1159 CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS OF SPIRITUAL DECAY Hosea 7:8-9 . Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people: Ephraim is a cake not turned. Strangers have devoured his strength, and he k...
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. A cake not turned - In the East having heated the hearth, they sweep one corner, put the cake upon it, and cover it with...
Among the people; Ephraim is a cake, &c.— Among the heathen, &c. This similitude of Ephraim to a cake, is accommodated to the Hebrew word בלל balal, rendered mixed, and which proper...
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people - by leagues with idolaters (see remarks on the beginning of thi...
Corruption of the Court In this chapter the tone again becomes despondent. How can Israel be saved when her iniquity is so deep, so glaring, so obstinate? Samaria is especially instanced as the ce...
Cake not turned. — Referring to the destructive effect of foreign influences. Ephraim was consumed by the unhallowed fire of Baal-worship, with all its passion and sensualism — a cake burnt on one...
A PEOPLE IN DECAY: 1 MORALLY Hosea 4:1-19 - Hosea 7:7 PURSUING the plan laid down in the last chapter, we now take the section of Hosea's discourse which lies between chapter 4 and Hosea 7:...
Iniquity Uncovered Hosea 7:1-16 The last clause of the previous chapter belongs to this. God desired to turn aside the captivity of His people and to heal Israel, but His pleading was unavailin...
The prophet then declared more particularly the true state of affairs. The divine desire to heal was frustrated by the pollution and the people's persistent ignoring of God. Hosea graphically describ...
I include all these verses under one view; for they are all to the same amount. They represent the same melancholy truth, only by different figures. The heart of man ready like an oven, always heated...
THE UNTURNED CAKE ‘Ephraim is a cake not turned.’ Hosea 7:8 Scripture is less a book for the schools than for the home. It is more colloquial than scientific; its terms are less technical th...
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people ,.... Either locally, by dwelling among them, as some of them at least might do among the Syrians; or carnally, by intermarrying with them, contrary t...
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. Ver. 8. Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people ] viz. in confederacies, marriages, manners, superstitions. T...
Ephraim, he hath mixed among the people By his alliances with the heathen, and by imitation of their manners, he is himself become one of them. He has thrown off all the distinctions, and forfeited...
The Crimes of the People; Infatuation of Ephraim; Ephraim's Obstinate Rebellion; Ephraim's Hypocrisy. B. C. 750....
Ephraim; the kingdom of Israel. Hath mixed himself among the people, by leagues and commerce, by imitation of their manners, and by either entertaining their gods, and sacrificing to them, or at...
‘Ephraim, he mixes himself among the peoples, Ephraim is a cake not turned.' The use of ‘Ephraim' may indicate a time when what was mainly left of Israel was that part which was on the mountain of...
CRITICAL NOTES .— Hosea 7:8 . Mixed ] by leagues and adoption of idolatrous customs. The Heb. indicates a mixing which disorders and involves confusion. A cake ] burned at the bottom and sad a...
Hosea 7:8 There is something in the character of some men which resembles a burnt loaf: a cake left too long with one side exposed to the fire till it has caught and been scorched, while the other...
Hosea 7:1 . When I would have healed Israel, by Jehu's zeal for the Lord, then the idolatrous priests, like troops of robbers, gathered round him with lies in their mouth, and persuaded him to ret...
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. Moral declension Much real pain is caused, to a rightly constituted mind, by the failure of fondly cherished antic...
EXPOSITION This chapter may be divided into three sections. In the first section, including Hosea 7:1-28 , the prophet reproves with much but deserved severity the depraved morals of king and p...
The Moral Corruption of Israel
1 Kings 18:21 ; Ezekiel 23:4-11 ; Ezra 9:1 ; Ezra 9:12 ; Hosea 5:13 ; Hosea 5:7 ; Hosea 8:2-4 ; Hosea 9:3 ; Malachi 2:11 ; Matthew 6:24 ; Nehemiah 13:23-25 ; Psalms 106:35 ; Revelation 3...
Ephraim — The kingdom of Israel. Mixed himself — With the Heathens by leagues and commerce and by imitation of their manners. Not turned — Burnt on one side, and dough on the other, and so good for...