“ Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. ”
Israel has cast off the thing that is good - Or (since the word means “to cast off with abhorrence” “Israel hath east off and abhorred Good,” both “Him who is Good” and “that which is good.” The...
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...
the thing that is good . the Gracious One. Compare Hosea 3:5 ; Hosea 14:2 .
The verb זנח, zanech, means “to remove far off,” and “to throw to a distance;” and sometimes, as some think, “to detest.” There is here, I doubt not, an implied contrast between the rejecti...
DISCOURSE: 1162 THE DANGER OF FALSE CONFIDENCE Hosea 8:2-3 . Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him . THERE is n...
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
Israel hath cast off— Israel, Israel, &c.
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. Israel. God repeats the name in opposition to their use of it ( Hosea 8:2 ). Hath cast off the thing that is good....
The Long-merited Retribution The enemy is coming immediately to destroy their temples and palaces and desolate the land, and as a punishment for their idolatry and disloyalty to God. In vain will...
Cast off. — Jehovah’s reply to Israel’s hollow repentance. The word “cast off” means a scornful loathing of what is putrescent or obscene. “The thing that is good” is the name of God, which is the...
1. THE CONFUSION OF THE NATION Hosea 7:8-16 ; Hosea 8:1-3 Hosea begins by summing up the public aspect of Israel in two epigrams, short but of marvelous adequacy:- Hosea 7:8 "Ephraim-among...
Reaping the Whirlwind Hosea 8:1-14 A conqueror was at hand who should subdue and punish the whole nation for taking its own course, irrespective of God, Hosea 8:4-8 ; for seeking foreign allia...
From this statement of the case the prophet turned to the pronouncement of judgment. This he did by adopting the figure of the trumpet lifted to the mouth, on which five blasts were sounded, in each...
The Chapter opens with a command to someone, and it should seem most likely to be to the Prophet, to cry aloud, in a way of reproof and expostulation. The expression is not unlike that command to Is...
Israel hath cast off [the thing that is] good ,.... Or "rejected [him that is] good" y; that is, God, as Kimchi observes; for there is none good but him, Matthew 19:17 ; he is the "summum bonum", "...
Israel hath cast off [the thing that is] good: the enemy shall pursue him. Ver. 3. Israel hath cast off the thing that is good ] Heb. the good: as, first, the good God, who is good, original, univ...
Israel shall cry unto me Namely, when calamities come upon them, My God, we know thee Thou art our God in covenant with us, and we make profession of thy name, and own thee for the only true God:...
Sin and Punishment of Israel; Crimes Charged against Israel; Sottish Idolatry of Israel. B. C. 745....
This seems to be the answer God by his prophet gives to Israel; in the first part of the verse he doth refute their pretence of a peculiar relation and interest in God, in the latter he tells them wh...
When The Enemy Descend Like An Eagle Because They Have Broken The Covenant And Cast Off What Is Good, Israel Will Cry In Vain, ‘”O God Of Israel We Know You” ( Hosea 8:1-3 ). The present hopelessn...
CRITICAL NOTES .— Hosea 8:2 . We ] Heb. joins Israel with the last clause, “ We know thee, we Israel ,” a plea of descent to move God to mercy; but hypocrisy, the cry of fear and not love. Dead k...
Hosea 8:1 . Set the trumpet to thy mouth. Give alarm, for the king of Assyria is coming; he is stretching his wings like an eagle to take the prey. Isaiah uses the same figure, in Isaiah 58:1 ....
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. The chastening of them that forsake God In this short sentence we have at once the sin of Israel and his punishment. Con...
EXPOSITION This chapter deals with the punishment of apostasy. Once more the sins of the northern kingdom are enumerated and its approaching fall predicted. There is a close connection between t...
The Judgment Announced
1 Timothy 5:12 ; Amos 1:11 ; Deuteronomy 28:25 ; Lamentations 3:66 ; Lamentations 4:19 ; Leviticus 26:36 ; Psalms 36:3 ; Psalms 81:10 ; Psalms 81:11