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Hosea 10

Against Israél and his idols. 14 His destruction for the same.
1.Israél is a eempty vine, yet hath it brought forth fruit unto it self, and according to the multitude of the fruit thereof he hath increased the altars according to the bgoodness of their land they have made fair images.
2.Their heart is cdivided: now shal they be found faulty: he shal break down their altars: he shal destroy their images.
3.For now they shal say, We have no dKing because we feared not the Lord: and what should a King do to us?
4.They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making ea covenant: thus fjudgement groweth as wormwood in the furrows of the field.
5.The inhabitants of Samaria shal gfear because of the calf of Beth-áven: for the people thereof shal mourn over it, and the hChemarins thereof, that rejoiced on it for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
6.It shalbe also brought to Asshúr, for a present unto King Jaréb: Ephráim shal receive shame, and Israél shalbe ashamed of his own counsel.
7.Of Samaria, the King thereof is destroyed, as the foam upon the water.
8.The hie places also of iAven shalbe destroyed, even the sin of Israél: the thorn and the thistle shal grow upon their altars, and they shal say to the mountains, *Cover us, and to the hills, Fall upon us.
9.O Israél, thou hast ksinned from the days of Gibeáh: there they istood: the battle in Gibeáh against the children of iniquity did not mtouch them.
10.It is my desire nthat I should chastise them, and the people shalbe gathered against them, when they shal gather them selves in their two furrows.
11.And Ephráim is as an heifer used to delite pin threshing: but I will pass by her qfair neck: I will make Ephráim to ride: Judáh shal plow, and Jaakób shal break his clods.
12.Sow to your selves in righteousness: reap after the measure of mercy: rbreak up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, til he come and rain righteousness upon you.
13.But you have plowed wickedness: ye have reaped iniquity: you have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didest trust in thine own ways, and in the multitude of thy strong men,
14.Therefore shal a tumult arise among thy people and all thy munitions shalbe destroyed, as sShalmán destroyed Beth-arbél in the day of battle: the mother with the children was dashed in pieces.
15.So shal Beth-él do unto you, because of your malicious wickedness: in a morning shal the King of Israél be destroyed.

Notes

1-a.
Whereof though the grapes were gathered, yet ever as it gathered now strength, it increased new wickedness, so that the correction which should have brought them to obedience, did but utter their stubbornness.
1-b.
As they were rich and had abundance.
2-K.
ings 17.6-18.
2-c.
To wit, from God.
3-d.
The day shall come that God shall take away their King, and then they shall feel the fruit of their sins, and how they trusted in him in vain,
4-e.
In promising to be faithful toward God.
4-f.
Thus their integrity and fidelity which they pretended, was nothing but bitterness and grief.
5-g.
When the calf shall be carried away.
5-h.
Chemarims were certain idolatrous priests, which did wear black apparel in their sacrifices and cried with a loud voice: which superstition Elijah derided, 1 Kings 18.27, read 2 Kings 23.5.
8-*.
Is. 2.19, Luke 23.30, Rev. 6.16 and 9.6.
8-i.
This he speaks in contempt of Bethel, read Ch. 4.15.
9-k.
In those days were you as wicked as the Gibeonites, as God there partly declared: for your zeal could not be good in executing God’s judgements, seeing your own deeds were as wicked as theirs.
9-l.
To wit, to fight, or the Israelites remained in that stubbornness from that time.
9-m.
The Israelites were not moved by their example to cease from their sins.
10-n.
Because they are so desperate, I will delight to destroy them.
10-o.
That is, when they have gathered all their strength together.
11-p.
Wherein is pleasure, as in plowing is labour and pain.
11-q.
I will lay my yoke upon fat her neck.
12-r.
Read Jer. 4.4.
14-s.
That is, Shalmaneser in the destruction of that city spared neither kind nor age.