Hosea 8:3

the thing that is good. the Gracious One. Compare Hosea 3:5; Hosea 14:2.

Related Commentaries of Hosea 8:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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,” bot...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 forei...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Israel hath cast off— Israel, Israel, &c.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 ( Hose...
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 t...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Israel ] Hosea answers their appeal by saying that the name is worthless without the character which God requires. 4 . In the constant changes of...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 thi...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 o...
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...
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, irrespectiv...
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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 professio...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Sin and Punishment of Israel; Crimes Charged against Israel; Sottish Idolatry of Israel. B. C....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 a...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘To me they will cry, “O God of Israel, we know you.” Israel has cast off what is good, The enemy will pursue him. In its extremity Israel will t...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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; b...
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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
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 fal...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Judgment Announced
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Israel hath cast off the thing that is good, they are filled with aversion and loathing for the covenant of Jehovah. The enemy shall pursue him, as...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 ; Psal...

³ Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

Related Commentaries of Hosea 8:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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