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Selected Verse: Hosea 9:11 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ho 9:11 |
Strong Concordance |
As for Ephraim [0669], their glory [03519] shall fly away [05774] like a bird [05775], from the birth [03205], and from the womb [0990], and from the conception [02032]. |
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King James |
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
their glory shall fly away--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.
from the birth . . . womb . . . conception--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. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
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." |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| 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 particular idolatry, from the punishment which is announced in Hos 9:11, Hos 9:12, as about to fall upon Ephraim in consequence. Hos 9:11. "Ephraim, its glory will fly away like a bird; no birth, and no pregnancy, and no conception. Hos 9:12. Yea, though they bring up their sons, I make them bereft, without a man; for woe to them when I depart from them!" The glory which God gave to His people through great multiplication, shall vanish away. The licentious worship of luxury will be punished by the diminution of the numbers of the people, by childlessness, and the destruction of the youth that may have grown up. מלּדה, so that there shall be no bearing. בּטן, the womb, for pregnancy or the fruit of the womb. Even (kı̄ emphatic) if the sons (the children) grow up, God will make them bereft, מאדם, so that there shall be no men there. The grown-up sons shall be swept away by death, by the sword (cf. Deu 32:25). The last clause gives the reason for the punishment threatened. גּם adds force; it usually stands at the head of the sentence, and here belongs to להם: Yea, woe to them, if I depart from them, or withdraw my favour from them! שׂוּר stands for סוּר, according to the interchangeableness of שׂ and ס (Aquila and Vulg.). This view has more to support it than the supposition that שׂוּר is an error of the pen for שׁוּר (Ewald, Hitzig, etc.), since שׁוּר, to look, construed with מן, in the sense of to look away from a person, is never met with, although the meaning is just the same. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Their glory - Their children or posterity, which was the glory of Israel. Shall fly - It is proverbial, and speaks a sudden loss of children. From the birth - As soon as born. From the womb - Their mothers shall not bring their fruit alive into the world. The conception - Their wives shall not conceive. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Their glory shall fly away - It shall suddenly spring away from them, and return no more.
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. |
52 And the name [08034] of the second [08145] called [07121] he Ephraim [0669]: For God [0430] hath caused me to be fruitful [06509] in the land [0776] of my affliction [06040].
10 I found [04672] Israel [03478] like grapes [06025] in the wilderness [04057]; I saw [07200] your fathers [01] as the firstripe [01063] in the fig tree [08384] at her first time [07225]: but they went [0935] to Baalpeor [01187], and separated [05144] themselves unto that shame [01322]; and their abominations [08251] were according as they loved [0157].
5 Wilt thou set [05774] [05774] thine eyes [05869] upon that which is not? for riches certainly [06213] make [06213] themselves wings [03671]; they fly away [05774] [05774] as an eagle [05404] toward heaven [08064].
17 His glory [01926] is like the firstling [01060] of his bullock [07794], and his horns [07161] are like the horns [07161] of unicorns [07214]: with them he shall push [05055] the people [05971] together [03162] to the ends [0657] of the earth [0776]: and they are the ten thousands [07233] of Ephraim [0669], and they are the thousands [0505] of Manasseh [04519].
19 And his father [01] refused [03985], and said [0559], I know [03045] it, my son [01121], I know [03045] it: he also shall become a people [05971], and he also shall be great [01431]: but truly [0199] his younger [06996] brother [0251] shall be greater [01431] than he, and his seed [02233] shall become a multitude [04393] of nations [01471].
52 And the name [08034] of the second [08145] called [07121] he Ephraim [0669]: For God [0430] hath caused me to be fruitful [06509] in the land [0776] of my affliction [06040].
25 The sword [02719] without [02351], and terror [0367] within [02315], shall destroy [07921] both the young man [0970] and the virgin [01330], the suckling [03243] also with the man [0376] of gray hairs [07872].
12 Though they bring up [01431] their children [01121], yet will I bereave [07921] them, that there shall not be a man [0120] left: yea, woe [0188] also to them when I depart [05493] from them!
11 As for Ephraim [0669], their glory [03519] shall fly away [05774] like a bird [05775], from the birth [03205], and from the womb [0990], and from the conception [02032].
12 Though they bring up [01431] their children [01121], yet will I bereave [07921] them, that there shall not be a man [0120] left: yea, woe [0188] also to them when I depart [05493] from them!
11 As for Ephraim [0669], their glory [03519] shall fly away [05774] like a bird [05775], from the birth [03205], and from the womb [0990], and from the conception [02032].