Hosea 9:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.

All their wickedness is in Gilgal - (see note, Hosea 4:15). This was the scene of their first contumacy in "rejecting God, that He should not reign over them," and choosing a king (1 Samuel 11:14-15: cf. 1 Samuel 8:7), and of their subsequent idolatry.

All their wickedness - i:e., their chief guilt.

For there I hated them - not with the human passion, but holy hatred of their sin, which required punishment to be inflicted on themselves (cf. Malachi 1:3).

For the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house - as in Hosea 8:1: out of the land holy unto ME. Or, as "love" is mentioned immediately after, the reference may be to the Hebrew mode of divorce, the husband (God) putting the wife (Israel) out of the house.

All their princes are revolters - `Sareehem ... Sorerim' [Hebrew, saareeyhem corriym], a play on similar sounds.

Hosea 9:15

15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.