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Text -- Hosea 9:11 (NET)

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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!
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Names, People and Places:
 · Ephraim the tribe of Ephraim as a whole,the northern kingdom of Israel


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Worldliness | MOSES | Israel | Hosea, Prophecies of | GLORY | FLY | Backsliders | more
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Hos 9:11 - -- Their children or posterity, which was the glory of Israel.

Their children or posterity, which was the glory of Israel.

Wesley: Hos 9:11 - -- It is proverbial, and speaks a sudden loss of children.

It is proverbial, and speaks a sudden loss of children.

Wesley: Hos 9:11 - -- As soon as born.

As soon as born.

Wesley: Hos 9:11 - -- Their mothers shall not bring their fruit alive into the world.

Their mothers shall not bring their fruit alive into the world.

Wesley: Hos 9:11 - -- Their wives shall not conceive.

Their wives shall not conceive.

JFB: Hos 9:11 - -- Fit retribution to those who "separated themselves unto that shame" (Hos 9:10). Children were accounted the glory of parents; sterility, a reproach. "...

Fit retribution to those who "separated themselves unto that shame" (Hos 9:10). Children were accounted the glory of parents; sterility, a reproach. "Ephraim" means "fruitfulness" (Gen 41:52); this its name shall cease to be its characteristic.

JFB: Hos 9:11 - -- Ephraim's children shall perish in a threefold gradation; (1) From the time of birth. (2) From the time of pregnancy. (3) From the time of their first...

Ephraim's children shall perish in a threefold gradation; (1) From the time of birth. (2) From the time of pregnancy. (3) From the time of their first conception.

Clarke: Hos 9:11 - -- Their glory shall fly away - It shall suddenly spring away from them, and return no more

Their glory shall fly away - It shall suddenly spring away from them, and return no more

Clarke: Hos 9:11 - -- From the birth - "So that there shall be no birth, no carrying in the womb, no conception."- Newcome. They shall cease to glory in their numbers; fo...

From the birth - "So that there shall be no birth, no carrying in the womb, no conception."- Newcome. They shall cease to glory in their numbers; for no children shall be born, no woman shall be pregnant, for none shall conceive. Here judgment blasts the very germs of population.

Calvin: Hos 9:11 - -- The Hebrews, we know, have often abrupt sentences as in this place, Ephraim! their glory has fled Ephraim is to be placed by itself; and the speech...

The Hebrews, we know, have often abrupt sentences as in this place, Ephraim! their glory has fled Ephraim is to be placed by itself; and the speech seems striking, when the Lord thus breaks off the sentence, Ephraim! he does not continue the sense, but immediately adds, Like a bird their glory has fled. When he speaks of Ephraim, he no doubt refers especially to his offspring; and by mentioning a part for the whole, he includes whatever was then deemed to be wealth, or glory, or power. The Prophet, I say, speaks of offspring, for he immediately adds, from the birth, and the womb, and the conception But they are mistaken who confine this sentence to offspring only; for it is, as I have said, a mode of speaking, by which a part is taken for the whole. According to the letter, he mentions children or offspring; but yet he includes generally the whole condition of the people.

Then as a bird the glory of Ephraim fled away In what respect? From the birth, from the womb, from the conception. The Prophet, no doubt, sets forth here the gradations of God’s vengeance, which was yet in part near at hand to the Israelites, and which was in part already evident by clear proofs. He says, from the birth, then from the womb, and, lastly, from the conception If, then, the glory of Ephraim had vanished at the beginning, the Prophet would not have thus spoken; but as the Lord showed signs of his wrath by degrees, that vengeance at length might reach the highest point, the Prophets in the first place, mentions birth, then the womb; as though he said, “The glory of Israel shall vanish from the birth, but if they still continue proud, and seem not subdued by this punishment, I will slay them in the womb itself; nay, in the conception, if they repent not; they shall be suffocated as in the very womb.”

TSK: Hos 9:11 - -- their : Gen 41:52, Gen 48:16-20, Gen 49:22; Deu 33:17; Job 18:5, Job 18:18, Job 18:19 from the birth : Psa 58:8; Ecc 6:3; Amo 1:13 from the womb : Hos...

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Hos 9:11 - -- As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away, like a bird - Ephraim had parted with God, his true Glory. In turn, God would quickly take from him...

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away, like a bird - Ephraim had parted with God, his true Glory. In turn, God would quickly take from him all created glory, all which he counted glory, or in which he gloried. When man parts with the substance, his true honor, God takes away the shadow, lest he should content himself therewith, and not see his shame, and, boasting himself to be something, abide in his nothingness and poverty and shame to which he had reduced himself. "Fruitfulness,"and consequent strength, had been God’ s special promise to Ephraim. His name, Ephraim, contained in itself the promise of his future fruitfulness. Gen 41:52. With this Jacob had blessed him. He was to be greater than Manasseh, his older brother, "and his seed shall become a multitude of nations"Gen 48:19. Moses had assigned to him "tens of thousands"Deu 33:17, while to Manasseh he had promised "thousands"only. On this blessing Ephraim had presumed, and had made it to feed his pride; so now God, in his justice and mercy, would withdraw it from him. It should "make"itself "wings, and fly away"Pro 23:5, with the swiftness of a bird, and "like a bird,"not to return again to the place, from where it has been scared.

From the birth - Their children were to perish at every stage in which they received life. This sentence pursued them back to the very beginning of life. First, when their parents should have joy in "their birth,"they were to come into the world only to go out of it; then, their mothers womb was to be itself their grave; then, stricken with barrenness, the womb itself was to refuse to conceive them.

: "The glory of Ephraim passes away, from the birth, the womb, the conception, when the mind which before was, for glory, half-deified, receives, through the just judgment of God, ill report for good report, misery for glory, hatred for favor, contempt for reverence, loss for gain, famine for abundance. Act is the "birth;"intention the "womb;"thought the "conception.""The glory of Ephraim then flies away from the birth, the womb, the conception,"when, in those who before did outwardly live nobly, and gloried in themselves for the outward propriety of their life, the acts are disgraced, the intention corrupted, the thoughts defiled."

Poole: Hos 9:11 - -- Their glory their children or posterity, which was as much the glory of Israel, as their multiplying was above the common rate of other nations’...

Their glory their children or posterity, which was as much the glory of Israel, as their multiplying was above the common rate of other nations’ multiplying; it was to them a singular blessing, and performing of promise, and they did greatly rejoice and glory in this blessing, Ps 128 Pr 17:6 .

Shall fly away like a bird: it is proverbial, and speaks a sudden and unexpected loss of children. which vanish and are gone as a bird: see Pro 23:5 , where sudden loss of riches is expressed in the same proverb.

From the birth shall die as soon as born.

From the womb prove abortive, their mothers shall not bring the fruit of the womb to perfection, or alive into the world.

From the conception through barrenness their wives shall not conceive.

Haydock: Hos 9:11 - -- Conception. Their children, in whom they glory, shall be destroyed (Calmet) in the very embryo. (Haydock)

Conception. Their children, in whom they glory, shall be destroyed (Calmet) in the very embryo. (Haydock)

Gill: Hos 9:11 - -- As for Ephraim, their glory shall flee away like a bird,.... That is, suddenly, swiftly, and irrecoverably, and never return more; which some underst...

As for Ephraim, their glory shall flee away like a bird,.... That is, suddenly, swiftly, and irrecoverably, and never return more; which some understand of God their glory, and of his departure from them, as in Hos 9:12; others of their wealth and riches, and whatever was glorious and valuable among them, which should fly away from them in a moment, when taken and carried captive; rather their numerous posterity, in which they were very fruitful, according to their name, and in which they gloried, as children are the glory of their parents, Pro 17:6; which sense agrees with what follows, and which explains the manner of their fleeing away, and the periods of it:

from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception; that is, some of them, as soon as they were born; others while in the womb, being abortives; or, however, when they should, or as soon as they did, come from thence; and others, as soon as conceived, never come to any thing; or not conceived at all, as Kimchi interprets it, the women being barren.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

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

Geneva Bible: Hos 9:11 [As for] Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, ( n ) and from the womb, and from the conception. ( n ) Signifying that God...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Hos 9:1-17 - --1 The distress and captivity of Israel for their sins.

MHCC: Hos 9:11-17 - --God departs from a people, or from a person, when he withdraws his goodness and mercy from them; and when the Lord is departed, what can the creature ...

Matthew Henry: Hos 9:11-17 - -- In the foregoing verses we saw the sin of Israel derived from their fathers; here we see the punishment of Israel derived to their children; for, as...

Keil-Delitzsch: Hos 9:11-12 - -- It is very evident that this is what he has in his mind, and that he regards the apostasy of the ten tribes as merely a continuation of that particu...

Constable: Hos 6:4--11:12 - --V. The fourth series of messages on judgment and restoration: Israel's ingratitude 6:4--11:11 This section of th...

Constable: Hos 6:4--11:8 - --A. More messages on coming judgment 6:4-11:7 The subject of Israel's ingratitude is particularly promine...

Constable: Hos 9:1--11:8 - --2. Israel's inevitable judgment 9:1-11:7 This section of prophecies continues to record accusati...

Constable: Hos 9:10-17 - --Israel's humiliation 9:10-17 This section is one in a series that looks back on Israel's...

Constable: Hos 9:10-14 - --Diminished fruitfulness 9:10-14 9:10 In the early days of Israel's history in the wilderness, the Lord took great delight in His people, as one rejoic...

Guzik: Hos 9:1-17 - --Hosea 9 - Exiled and Dried Up A. Israel exiled in judgment. 1. (1-4) The end of the good life in Israel. Do not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like o...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Hosea (Book Introduction) THE first of the twelve minor prophets in the order of the canon (called "minor," not as less in point of inspired authority, but simply in point of s...

JFB: Hosea (Outline) INSCRIPTION. (Hos 1:1-11) Spiritual whoredom of Israel set forth by symbolical acts; Gomer taken to wife at God's command: Jezreel, Lo-ruhamah, and ...

TSK: Hosea 9 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Hos 9:1, The distress and captivity of Israel for their sins.

Poole: Hosea (Book Introduction) THE ARGUMENT Without dispute our prophet is one of the obscurest and most difficult to unfold clearly and fully. Though he come not, as Isaiah and ...

Poole: Hosea 9 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 9 The distress and captivity of Israel for their sins, especially their idolatry.

MHCC: Hosea (Book Introduction) Hosea is supposed to have been of the kingdom of Israel. He lived and prophesied during a long period. The scope of his predictions appears to be, to ...

MHCC: Hosea 9 (Chapter Introduction) (Hos 9:1-6) The distress to come upon Israel. (Hos 9:7-10) The approach of the day of trouble. (Hos 9:11-17) Judgments on Israel.

Matthew Henry: Hosea (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of the Prophet Hosea I. We have now before us the twelve minor prophets, which some of the anc...

Matthew Henry: Hosea 9 (Chapter Introduction) In this chapter, I. God threatens to deprive this degenerate seed of Israel of all their worldly enjoyments, because by sin they had forfeited the...

Constable: Hosea (Book Introduction) Introduction Title and Writer The prophet's name is the title of the book. The book cl...

Constable: Hosea (Outline) Outline I. Introduction 1:1 II. The first series of messages of judgment and restoration: Ho...

Constable: Hosea Hosea Bibliography Andersen, Francis I., and David Noel Freedman. Hosea: A New Translation, Introduction and Co...

Haydock: Hosea (Book Introduction) THE PROPHECY OF OSEE. INTRODUCTION. Osee , or Hosea, whose name signifies a saviour, was the first in the order of time among those who are ...

Gill: Hosea (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO HOSEA This book, in the Hebrew Bibles, at least in some copies, is called "Sopher Hosea", the Book of Hoses; and, in the Vulgate La...

Gill: Hosea 9 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO HOSEA 9 This chapter is an address to Israel or the ten tribes, and contains either a new sermon, or is a very considerable part of...

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