Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off. Thus it will be done to youThis phrase indicates a direct consequence or judgment that is to befall the people. The Hebrew root here is "כָּזֹאת" (kazot), which implies a certainty and inevitability of the action. In the context of Hosea, this is a divine pronouncement of judgment. The prophetic nature of this statement underscores the seriousness of Israel's actions and the assuredness of God's response. It serves as a reminder of the biblical principle that actions have consequences, especially when they are in direct opposition to God's commands. O Bethel
Bethel, meaning "house of God" in Hebrew, was a significant location in Israel's history, originally a place of worship and divine encounters. However, by the time of Hosea, Bethel had become a center of idolatry and false worship. This transformation from a holy site to one of corruption highlights the theme of spiritual adultery that runs throughout Hosea. The mention of Bethel serves as a poignant reminder of how far Israel has strayed from its covenant relationship with God. because of your great wickedness
The Hebrew word for "wickedness" is "רָעָה" (ra'ah), which conveys a sense of evil or moral corruption. The use of "great" emphasizes the extent and severity of Israel's sin. This phrase reflects the depth of Israel's rebellion against God, which included idolatry, social injustice, and a general abandonment of the covenant. It serves as a warning of the destructive power of sin and the importance of repentance and returning to God. When the day dawns
This phrase can be understood both literally and metaphorically. Literally, it refers to the coming of a new day, but metaphorically, it signifies the arrival of judgment. The dawning of the day is often used in Scripture to symbolize a time of reckoning or revelation. In Hosea's context, it suggests the imminence of God's judgment upon Israel, urging the people to recognize the urgency of their situation and the need for immediate repentance. the king of Israel
The king represents the leadership and, by extension, the nation itself. In Hosea's time, the kings of Israel were often complicit in leading the people away from God through political alliances and idolatry. The mention of the king underscores the failure of Israel's leadership to uphold God's laws and the resulting consequences for the nation. It serves as a reminder of the responsibility of leaders to guide their people in righteousness and the impact of their actions on the entire community. will be utterly cut off
The phrase "utterly cut off" is derived from the Hebrew "יִכָּרֵת" (yikkaret), which means to be destroyed or removed completely. This indicates a total and irreversible judgment. In the context of Hosea, it signifies the end of the northern kingdom of Israel as a result of their persistent sin and rebellion. This serves as a sobering reminder of the seriousness of turning away from God and the ultimate consequences of unrepentant sin. It calls believers to reflect on their own lives and the importance of remaining faithful to God's covenant. Persons / Places / Events 1. BethelA significant city in the Northern Kingdom of Israel, often associated with idolatry and false worship. It was a center for the worship of golden calves set up by Jeroboam I. 2. The King of IsraelRefers to the ruling monarch of the Northern Kingdom during Hosea's time. The prophecy indicates the downfall of the king due to the nation's sins. 3. HoseaA prophet in the 8th century BC, called by God to deliver messages of judgment and hope to the Northern Kingdom of Israel. 4. IsraelThe Northern Kingdom, which had turned away from God and engaged in idolatry and other sins, leading to its eventual downfall. 5. Day of JudgmentThe prophetic day when God's judgment would be executed upon Israel for its persistent sinfulness. Teaching Points The Consequences of IdolatryIdolatry leads to spiritual and national downfall. Just as Israel faced judgment for its idolatry, we must guard against placing anything above God in our lives. The Certainty of God's JudgmentGod's judgment is sure and will come to pass. We must live in a way that honors God, knowing that He sees and will judge all actions. The Importance of True WorshipWorship must be directed to God alone, in spirit and truth. False worship, as seen in Bethel, leads to destruction. Leadership and AccountabilityLeaders are accountable to God for their actions and the direction they lead others. The king's downfall serves as a warning to those in positions of authority. Repentance and RestorationWhile judgment is pronounced, there is always an opportunity for repentance. Turning back to God can restore and heal. Bible Study Questions 1. What parallels can you draw between the idolatry in Bethel and modern-day forms of idolatry? 2. How does the fall of the king of Israel serve as a warning to leaders today, both in the church and in society? 3. In what ways can we ensure that our worship remains true and focused on God alone? 4. How does the certainty of God's judgment influence your daily life and decisions? 5. Reflect on a time when you experienced the consequences of turning away from God. How did repentance lead to restoration in your life? Connections to Other Scriptures Amos 5:5Amos also warns against seeking Bethel, highlighting its association with false worship and impending judgment. 2 Kings 17:6-23Describes the fall of the Northern Kingdom to Assyria, fulfilling the prophetic warnings of Hosea and other prophets. Jeremiah 4:18Speaks to the consequences of one's own actions, similar to the judgment pronounced on Israel for its wickedness. People Hosea, Jacob, Jareb, ShalmanPlaces Assyria, Aven, Beth-arbel, Beth-aven, Bethel, Gibeah, Gilgal, SamariaTopics Bethel, Beth-el, Completely, Cut, Dawn, Dawns, Daybreak, Day-break, Destroyed, Evil, Evil-doing, Morning, O, Storm, Thus, Utterly, WickednessDictionary of Bible Themes Hosea 10:14 5315 fortifications
5824 cruelty, examples Hosea 10:13-14 5316 fortress
8032 trust, lack of Library 'Fruit which is Death'
'Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images. 2. Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: He shall break down their altars, He shall spoil their images. 3. For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord; what then should a king do to us? 4. They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy ScriptureA Divided Heart
I intend, however, to take the text this morning specially with reference to our individual condition. We shall look at the separate individual heart of each man. If divisions in the great main body--if separation among the distinct classes of that body should each promote disasters, how much more disastrous must be a division in that better kingdom--the heart of man. If there be civil tumult in the town of Mansoul, even when no enemy attacks its walls, it will be in a sufficiently dangerous position. …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 5: 1859 How to Promote a Revival.
Text.--Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.--Hosea x. 12. THE Jews were a nation of farmers, and it is therefore a common thing in the Scriptures to refer for illustrations to their occupation, and to the scenes with which farmers and shepherds are familiar. The prophet Hosea addresses them as a nation of backsliders, and reproves them for their idolatry, and threatens them with the judgments of God. I have showed you in my first …
Charles Grandison Finney—Lectures on Revivals of Religion The Books of the Old Testament as a Whole. 1 the Province of Particular Introduction is to Consider the Books of the Bible Separately...
CHAPTER XVIII. THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT AS A WHOLE. 1. The province of Particular Introduction is to consider the books of the Bible separately, in respect to their authorship, date, contents, and the place which each of them holds in the system of divine truth. Here it is above all things important that we begin with the idea of the unity of divine revelation--that all the parts of the Bible constitute a gloriously perfect whole, of which God and not man is the author. No amount of study devoted …
E. P. Barrows—Companion to the Bible Arbel. Shezor. Tarnegola the Upper.
"Arbel a city of Galilee."--There is mention of it in Hosea 10:14. But there are authors which do very differently interpret that place, viz. the Chaldee paraphrast, R. Solomon, Kimchi: consult them. It was between Zippor and Tiberias. Hence Nittai the Arbelite, who was president with Josua Ben Perahiah. The valley of Arbel is mentioned by the Talmudists. So also "The Arbelite Bushel." "Near Zephath in Upper Galilee was a town named Shezor, whence was R. Simeon Shezori: there he was buried. There …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica Letter Xli to Thomas of St. Omer, after He had Broken his Promise of Adopting a Change of Life.
To Thomas of St. Omer, After He Had Broken His Promise of Adopting a Change of Life. He urges him to leave his studies and enter religion, and sets before him the miserable end of Thomas of Beverley. To his dearly beloved son, Thomas, Brother Bernard, called Abbot of Clairvaux, that he may walk in the fear of the Lord. 1. You do well in acknowledging the debt of your promise, and in not denying your guilt in deferring its performance. But I beg you not to think simply of what you promised, but to …
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux—Some Letters of Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux Of Love to God
I proceed to the second general branch of the text. The persons interested in this privilege. They are lovers of God. "All things work together for good, to them that love God." Despisers and haters of God have no lot or part in this privilege. It is children's bread, it belongs only to them that love God. Because love is the very heart and spirit of religion, I shall the more fully treat upon this; and for the further discussion of it, let us notice these five things concerning love to God. 1. The …
Thomas Watson—A Divine Cordial The Prophet Hosea.
GENERAL PRELIMINARY REMARKS. That the kingdom of Israel was the object of the prophet's ministry is so evident, that upon this point all are, and cannot but be, agreed. But there is a difference of opinion as to whether the prophet was a fellow-countryman of those to whom he preached, or was called by God out of the kingdom of Judah. The latter has been asserted with great confidence by Maurer, among others, in his Observ. in Hos., in the Commentat. Theol. ii. i. p. 293. But the arguments …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament The Worst Things Work for Good to the Godly
DO not mistake me, I do not say that of their own nature the worst things are good, for they are a fruit of the curse; but though they are naturally evil, yet the wise overruling hand of God disposing and sanctifying them, they are morally good. As the elements, though of contrary qualities, yet God has so tempered them, that they all work in a harmonious manner for the good of the universe. Or as in a watch, the wheels seem to move contrary one to another, but all carry on the motions of the watch: …
Thomas Watson—A Divine Cordial How Christ is the Way in General, "I am the Way. "
We come now to speak more particularly to the words; and, first, Of his being a way. Our design being to point at the way of use-making of Christ in all our necessities, straits, and difficulties which are in our way to heaven; and particularly to point out the way how believers should make use of Christ in all their particular exigencies; and so live by faith in him, walk in him, grow up in him, advance and march forward toward glory in him. It will not be amiss to speak of this fulness of Christ …
John Brown (of Wamphray)—Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life The Barren Fig-Tree;
OR, THE DOOM AND DOWNFALL OF THE FRUITLESS PROFESSOR: SHOWING, THAT THE DAY OF GRACE MAY BE PAST WITH HIM LONG BEFORE HIS LIFE IS ENDED; THE SIGNS ALSO BY WHICH SUCH MISERABLE MORTALS MAY BE KNOWN. BY JOHN BUNYAN 'Who being dead, yet speaketh.'--Hebrews 11:4 London: Printed for J. Robinson, at the Golden Lion, in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1688. This Title has a broad Black Border. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. This solemn, searching, awful treatise, was published by Bunyan in 1682; but does not appear …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3 Directions to Awakened Sinners.
Acts ix. 6. Acts ix. 6. And he, trembling and astonished, said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do. THESE are the words of Saul, who also is called Paul, (Acts xiii. 9,) when he was stricken to the ground as he was going to Damascus; and any one who had looked upon him in his present circumstances and knew nothing more of him than that view, in comparison with his past life, could have given, would have imagined him one of the most miserable creatures that ever lived upon earth, and would have expected …
Philip Doddridge—Practical Discourses on Regeneration "There is Therefore Now no Condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who Walk not after the Flesh, but after the Spirit. "
Rom. viii. 1.--"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." There are three things which concur to make man miserable,--sin, condemnation, and affliction. Every one may observe that "man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward," that his days here are few and evil. He possesses "months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed" for him. Job v. 6, 7, vii. 3. He "is of few days and full of trouble," Job xiv. …
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hosea
The book of Hosea divides naturally into two parts: i.-iii. and iv.-xiv., the former relatively clear and connected, the latter unusually disjointed and obscure. The difference is so unmistakable that i.-iii. have usually been assigned to the period before the death of Jeroboam II, and iv.-xiv. to the anarchic period which succeeded. Certainly Hosea's prophetic career began before the end of Jeroboam's reign, as he predicts the fall of the reigning dynasty, i. 4, which practically ended with Jeroboam's …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament Links Hosea 10:15 NIVHosea 10:15 NLTHosea 10:15 ESVHosea 10:15 NASBHosea 10:15 KJV
Hosea 10:15 Commentaries
Bible Hub |
