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Text -- Hosea 9:1-17 (NET)

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Fertility Cult Festivals Have Intoxicated Israel
9:1 O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly like the nations, for you are unfaithful to your God. You love to receive a prostitute's wages on all the floors where you thresh your grain. 9:2 Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, and new wine only deceives them.
Assyrian Exile Will Reverse the Egyptian Exodus
9:3 They will not remain in the Lord’s land. Ephraim will return to Egypt; they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria. 9:4 They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord; they will not please him with their sacrifices. Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning; all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean. For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the temple of the Lord. 9:5 So what will you do on the festival day, on the festival days of the Lord?
No Escape for the Israelites This Time!
9:6 Look! Even if they flee from the destruction, Egypt will take hold of them, and Memphis will bury them. The weeds will inherit the silver they treasure– thorn bushes will occupy their homes.
Israel Rejects Hosea’s Prophetic Exhortations
9:7 The time of judgment is about to arrive! The time of retribution is imminent! Let Israel know! The prophet is considered a fool– the inspired man is viewed as a madman– because of the multitude of your sins and your intense animosity. 9:8 The prophet is a watchman over Ephraim on behalf of God, yet traps are laid for him along all of his paths; animosity rages against him in the land of his God.
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
9:9 They have sunk deep into corruption as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their wrongdoing. He will repay them for their sins. 9:10 When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. I viewed your ancestors like an early fig on a fig tree in its first season. Then they came to Baal-Peor and they dedicated themselves to shame– they became as detestable as what they loved.
The Fertility Worshipers Will Become Infertile
9:11 Ephraim will be like a bird; what they value will fly away. They will not bear children– they will not enjoy pregnancy– they will not even conceive! 9:12 Even if they raise their children, I will take away every last one of them. Woe to them! For I will turn away from them. 9:13 Just as lion cubs are born predators, so Ephraim will bear his sons for slaughter. 9:14 Give them, O Lord– what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry, and breasts that cannot nurse! 9:15 Because of all their evil in Gilgal, I hate them there. On account of their evil deeds, I will drive them out of my land. I will no longer love them; all their rulers are rebels. 9:16 Ephraim will be struck down– their root will be dried up; they will not yield any fruit. Even if they do bear children, I will kill their precious offspring. 9:17 My God will reject them, for they have not obeyed him; so they will be fugitives among the nations.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Assyria a member of the nation of Assyria
 · Baal a pagan god,a title of a pagan god,a town in the Negeb on the border of Simeon and Judah,son of Reaiah son of Micah; a descendant of Reuben,the forth son of Jeiel, the Benjamite
 · Egypt descendants of Mizraim
 · Ephraim the tribe of Ephraim as a whole,the northern kingdom of Israel
 · Gibeah a town of Judah 8 km north of Jerusalem, 5 km east of Gibeon (SMM)
 · Gilgal a place where Israel encamped between Jericho and the Jordan,a town between Dor and Tirza in the territory of Ephraim (YC),a town just north of Joppa, originally a military base (YC),a place 12 miles south of Shechem now called Jiljiliah (YC)
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Memphis a town of Egypt 35 km south of present day Cairo (ZD)
 · Tyre a resident of the town of Tyre


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Backsliders | Israel | HOSEA | Hosea, Prophecies of | Wicked | Idolatry | Gilgal | CALF, GOLDEN | Worldliness | Gibeah | Sin | Baal-peor | CORNFLOOR | FOWLER | Nettles | Memphis | Minister | NOPH | Tyre | VISITATION | more
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NET Notes: Hos 9:1 Heb “you love the wages of the prostitute” (NIV similar); NAB “loving a harlot’s hire.”

NET Notes: Hos 9:2 Heb “her” (so KJV, ASV). This is taken as a collective singular (so also most modern English versions).

NET Notes: Hos 9:6 Heb “their tents” (so NIV, NRSV); CEV “your tents.”

NET Notes: Hos 9:7 Heb “great.”

NET Notes: Hos 9:8 Heb “house.” The term בַּיִת (bayit, “house”) is used as a figure of speech, referring to ...

NET Notes: Hos 9:9 Or more literally, “they are deeply corrupted.” The two verbs הֶעְמִיקוּ־...

NET Notes: Hos 9:10 Heb “fathers”; a number of more recent English versions use the more general “ancestors” here.

NET Notes: Hos 9:11 Heb “no childbearing, no pregnancy, no conception.” The preposition מִן (min) prefixed to the three parallel nouns funct...

NET Notes: Hos 9:12 Heb “I will bereave them from a man”; NRSV “I will bereave them until no one is left.”

NET Notes: Hos 9:13 The MT is corrupt in 9:13. The BHS editors suggest emending the text to follow the LXX reading. See D. Barthélemy, ed., Preliminary and Interim R...

NET Notes: Hos 9:14 Heb “breasts that shrivel up dry”; cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV “dry breasts.”

NET Notes: Hos 9:15 Heb “out of my house” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV, NCV, NLT “my land.”

NET Notes: Hos 9:16 Or perhaps, following the plant metaphor, “will be blighted” (NIV similar).

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