Hosea 9:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

because of. from.

Egypt. [yet] Egypt. Compare Hosea 7:16.

shall gather them up. shall rake them out [for manure, or for burning]; not for burial in their own land; this would be 'asaph. But here it is kabaz. (Jeremiah 8:2.Ezekiel 29:5.)

Memphis. The capital of Lower Egypt (near Cairo). Now Mitrahumy. also called Noph.

tabernacles. tents. Hebrew. 'ohel (App-40.); "tents" being put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the place where their tents were pitched.

Hosea 9:6

6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction:b Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.