Hosea 11:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

Hosea 11:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 8:5
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Amos 5:14-15
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. …
Hosea 11:2
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
Hosea 14:4
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
Amos 5:4-6
For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Backsliders Call Church Converts Deafness Forgetting God Godlessness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

Here we find, I. God very gracious to Israel. They were a people for whom he had done more than for any people under heaven, and to whom he had given more, which they are here, I will not say upbraided with (for God gives, and upbraids not), but put in mind of, as an aggravation of their sin and an encouragement to repentance. 1. He had a kindness for them when they were young (Hos. 11:1): When Is…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. bent to backsliding--Not only do they backslide, and that too from Me, their “chief good,” but they are bent upon it. Though they (the prophets) called them (the Israelites) to the Most High (from their idols), “none would exalt (that is, extol or honor) Him.” To exalt God, they must cease to be “bent on backsliding,” and must lift themselves upwards.