Hosea 8:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.b ”

Hosea 8:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For they are gone up to Assyria - The ground of this their captivity is that wherein they placed their hope of safety. They shall be presently swallowed up; “for” they went to Asshur. The holy la...
Hosea 8:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For they are gone up to Assyria, a (g) wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. (g) They never cease, but run to and fro to seek help.
Hosea 8:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Israel's Unsanctified National Life. Man-made kings, like man-made gods (the calf of Samaria), are impotent; Israel sows the wind and shall reap the whirlwind; the sources of the national life are...
Hosea 8:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

gone up. Compare Hosea 5:13 ; Hosea 7:11 . a . [as] a. wild ass. Compare Isaiah 1:3 . hired lovers . paid the love-fee. Comparing idolatry to whoredom. Compare Ezekiel 16:33 ; Ezekiel 16:3...
Hosea 8:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here again the Prophet derides all the labour the people had undertaken to exempt themselves from punishment. For though hypocrites dare not openly and avowedly to fight against God, yet they s...
Hosea 8:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. They are gone up to Assyria - For succor. A wild ass alone by himself - Like that animal, jealous of its libe...
Hosea 8:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For they are gone up to Assyria— These verses are connected with that preceding, and are thus translated by Houbigant: Because they go to the Assyrian, though the Assyrian is nothing more than a w...
Hosea 8:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. For they are gone up to Assyria - referring to Menahem's application for Pul's aid in establishing him...
Hosea 8:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Hosea 8:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Gone up to Assyria . — The word thus translated is elsewhere used for “going up” to the sanctuary of the Lord. (See Note on Hosea 7:11 .) Wild ass is the image of untamed waywardness ( Job 39:5 ,...
Hosea 8:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1-19 ; Hosea 5:1-15 ; Hosea 6:1-11 ; Hosea 7:1-16 ; Hosea 8:1-14 ; Hosea 9:1-17 ; Hosea 10:1-15 ; Hosea 11:1-12 ; Hosea 12:1-14 ; Hosea 13:1-16 ; Hosea...
Hosea 8:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Hosea 8:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hosea 8:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here is a very striking passage in these words of the Lord, and is as suited to all ages as to the age of Israel. The Lord saith, that the great things he wrote to Israel were counted by them strange...
Hosea 8:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For they are gone up to Assyria ,.... Or, "though they should go up to Assyria" g; to the king of Assyria, to gain his friendship, and enter into alliance with him; as, when Pal king of Assyria came...
Hosea 8:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. Ver. 9. For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself ] This was that that most moved the Lo...
Hosea 8:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sins of Israel; The Crimes of the People. B. C. 745. 8 Israel is swallowed up: now...
Hosea 8:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The prophet gives now an account why Israel was so impoverished, and why they should be so severely punished, why so punished of God, and why so slighted by man. They are gone up to Assyria; either...
Hosea 8:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Israel is swallowed up. Now are they among the nations, As a vessel in which none delights. . For they are gone up to Assyria, A wild ass alone by himself, Ephraim has hired lovers.' Not only...
Hosea 8:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES .— Hosea 8:9 . Assy- ] to gain friendship and alliance. Wild ass ] A comparison which shows their folly, not as a paramour burning in lust, but heady, obstinate, and undisciplin...
Hosea 8:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 ....
Hosea 8:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

A wild ass alone by himself. The Scripture figure of the wild ass What a figure of the untamed soul which refuses the easy yoke of the blessed Redeemer. Man’s untamed spirit spurns the adorable...
Hosea 8:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Hosea 8:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Further Threat of Judgment
Hosea 8:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 15:19 ; Ezekiel 16:33 ; Ezekiel 16:34 ; Ezekiel 23:5-9 ; Hosea 12:1 ; Hosea 2:10 ; Hosea 2:5-7 ; Hosea 5:13 ; Hosea 7:11 ; Isaiah 30:6 ; Jeremiah 2:24 ; Job 39:5-8
Hosea 8:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Gone up — Israel is like a wild ass. A wild ass — Stubborn, wild, untamed. Alone — Solitary, where is no path or tract; so they were in their captivity.

Hosea 8:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hosea 8:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Hosea 8:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 8:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Hosea 8:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 8:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Hosea 8:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Hosea 8:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Hosea 8:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 8:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hosea 8:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Hosea 8:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Hosea 8:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hosea 8:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hosea 8:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hosea 8:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hosea 8:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hosea 8:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hosea 8:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 8:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Hosea 8:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 8:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Hosea 8:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Hosea 8:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hosea 8:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 8:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes