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96461 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 867.10 (Matthew Henry)
… 4:7. It was their honour that they were increased in number, wealth, power, and dignity. The beginning of their nation was small, but in process of time it greatly …
96462 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 867.12 (Matthew Henry)
… 4:7 ), and therefore though they commit whoredom, though they take the most wicked methods to multiply their people, yet they shall not increase. Though they …
96463 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 867.19 (Matthew Henry)
… 5:7. Or it may refer in general to the depraved morals of the whole nation; they had lost all their life and spirit, and were as offensive to God as dead and sour …
96464 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 868.1 (Matthew Henry)
… 5:7. 5. The tyranny of the princes, and the tameness of the people in submitting to it, Hosea 5:10, 5:11. III. They are threatened with God’s displeasure for their sins …
96465 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 868.4 (Matthew Henry)
… , Ecclesiastes 7:26. But to those whom they could not seduce into sin they were as a net and a snare to bring them into trouble. Some think it was their practice …
96466 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 868.7 (Matthew Henry)
2. They shall fall short of God’s favour when they profess to seek it ( Hosea 5:6 ): They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord, but in vain …
96467 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 869.1 (Matthew Henry)
… 6:7-6:11 .
96468 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 869.7 (Matthew Henry)
(1.) They promise themselves that their deliverance out of their troubles should be to them as life from the dead ( Hosea 6:2 ): “ After two days he will revive us (that …
96469 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 869.8 (Matthew Henry)
… 24:7. Those that have risen with Christ have the spirit of wisdom and revelation given them. And if we understand our living in his sight, as the Chaldee paraphrast …
96470 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 869.13 (Matthew Henry)
… , Jeremiah 7:22, 7:23. I spoke not to your fathers concerning burnt-offerings (that was the smallest of the matters I spoke to them of, and on which the least stress …
96471 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 869.15 (Matthew Henry)
… 6:7 ): They, like men, have transgressed the covenant, that covenant which God made with them; they have broken the conditions of it, and so forfeited the benefit …
96472 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 870.1 (Matthew Henry)
… 7:3-7:7. 2. Of the country. Ephraim is here charged with conforming to the nations ( Hosea 7:8 ), senselessness and stupidity under the judgments of God ( Hosea 7:9-7:11 …
96473 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 870.3 (Matthew Henry)
I. A general idea given of the present state of Israel, Hosea 7:1, 7:2. See how the case now stood with them.
96474 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 870.6 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Hosea 7:2 ): “ They consider not in their hearts, they never say it to their own hearts, never think of this, that I remember all their wickedness .” As if God could not …
96475 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 870.7 (Matthew Henry)
4. God had begun to contend with them by his judgments, in earnest of what was further coming: The thief comes in, and the troop of robbers spoils without. Some …
96476 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 870.9 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Hosea 7:3 ): They make the king and princes glad with their wickedness. It pleased them to see the people conform to their wicked laws and examples, in the worship …
96477 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 870.10 (Matthew Henry)
… , Hosea 7:5. The day of our king was a merry day with them, either his birth-day or his inauguration-day, of which it is probable that they had an anniversary observation …
96478 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 870.11 (Matthew Henry)
… Hosea 7:4, 7:6, 7:7, and the charge of drunkenness comes in in the midst of this article; for wine is oil to the fire of lust, Proverbs 23:33. Those that are inflamed with …
96479 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 870.12 (Matthew Henry)
… 64:7. Note, Those are not only heated with sin, but hardened in sin, that continue to live without prayer even when they are in trouble and distress.
96480 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 870.14 (Matthew Henry)
… , Hosea 7:8. 1. They did not distinguish themselves from the heathen, as God had distinguished them: Ephraim, he has mingled himself among the people, has associated …