Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary

Hosea 9

In this chapter, I. God threatens to deprive this degenerate seed of Israel of all their worldly enjoyments, because by sin they had forfeited their title to them; so that they should have no comfort either in receiving them themselves or in offering them to God, Hosea 9:1-9:5. II. He dooms them to utter ruin, for their own sins and the sins of their prophets, Hosea 9:6-9:8. III. He upbraids them with the wickedness of their fathers before them, whose steps they trod in, Hosea 9:9, 9:10. IV. He threatens them with the destruction of their children and the rooting out of their posterity, Hosea 9:11-9:17. MHBCC 872.1