15So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.
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The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?
Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)Here, I. They are put in mind of the sins of their fathers and predecessors, for which God would now reckon with them. It was told them (Hos. 9:9) that they had corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah , and here (Hos. 10:9), O Israel! thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah . Not only the wickedness that was committed in that age is revived in this, and reacted, a copy from that original,…
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