They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria. Sermons
I. IT IS THE LAND OF PROMISE, as assured to them by a gracious and "covenant-keeping" God, even as Canaan was promised to the descendants of the patriarchs. II. IT IS A LAND OF SPIRITUAL PLENTY. Canaan was represented as a "land flowing with milk and honey," and in this is a figure of the sufficient provision which God has made in the gospel for the spiritual needs of his obedient, loyal people. III. IT IS A LAND OF DIVINE FAVOR. Palestine was denominated a good land, upon which the eyes of the Lord rested "from the beginning of the year until the end of the year." Upon the citizens of the heavenly Canaan God ever lifts the light of his countenance. IV. IT IS A LAND OF REST, Even as Israel rested in the promised inheritance after the wanderings of the wilderness, so Christians find that where God dwells, and where he appoints their habitation, there is rest spiritual and eternal. - T.
They shall not dwell in. the Lord's land. Before, God was to them as a father taking maintenance away from them, leaving them to suffer want: but here His anger increases, and He puts them out of His house; as a nation out of His land. God would make them know that it was His land, that they were but tenants at will, and enjoyed the land upon conditions of obedience. It is a good meditation for us to dwell upon, that we are God's stewards; the Lord is the great landlord of all the world. "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof." The land of Canaan was "Jehovah's land" in some special senses.1. It was a land that God had "espied" as a special place for His people. 2. It was the land of promise. 3. It was a land given by oath (Genesis 24:7). 4. It was a land which the Lord brought His people into by "a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm." 5. It was a land divided by lot. The possession that any man had was ordered by God Himself by lot. 6. It was a land wherein God dwelt Himself, a land that God called His own rest. It was the land wherein were the ordinances and worship of God, and His honour dwelt there, and so it had a peculiar blessing upon it above every land on the face of the whole earth. 7. It was a land over which God's eye was in a more special manner. 8. This land was typical of the rest of the Church in heaven. Then it would be a great judgment of God to drive men out of this land for their sin. To be cast out of those mercies which God by an extraordinary providence has brought to us is a sore and grievous evil. (Jeremiah Burroughs.) And they shall eat unclean things in Assyria Here we have the degradation of sin. To be ceremonially clean or pure was the joy and pride of Israel. The Jews would not eat things that were common or unclean, and by this mark they were distinguished from other people. Whilst Israel lived even in nominal piety, how superficial soever it might be, God gave him protection against degradation; but when Israel turned away adulterously from God, and sought satisfaction at forbidden fountains and altars, then the Lord brought upon Israel the misery of this degradation and shame. Israel was forced to eat things that were unclean, things that were killed with the blood in them, things that revolted the sense of the nation, and went dead against all the prejudices of education. Thus a badge was taken from the shoulder of Israel, a distinction was removed from the chosen people; they could have borne reproaches on the ground of moral disobedience with comparative indifference, but to have social boundaries and distinctions broken down was a judgment which Israel keenly felt. But the Lord will seize the sinner at some point, for He cannot be baffled in judgment or thwarted in the application of His righteousness. The Lord's judgments are ordered according to our apostasy; God will strike most where we feel most; He will follow our pride and our vanity, and smite them so as to bring upon them our keenest shame. God will not content Himself with some general judgment; He will specifically scrutinise and either reward or punish according to the result of His inquest.(Joseph Parker, D. D.) People Baalpeor, HoseaPlaces Assyria, Beth-baal-peor, Egypt, Gibeah, Gilgal, MemphisTopics Abide, Asshur, Assyria, Dwell, Eat, Egypt, Ephraim, E'phraim, Lord's, Resting-place, Return, Unclean, Won'tOutline 1. The distress and captivity of Israel for their sins.Dictionary of Bible Themes Hosea 9:3Library Of Councils and their Authority. 1. The true nature of Councils. 2. Whence the authority of Councils is derived. What meant by assembling in the name of Christ. 3. Objection, that no truth remains in the Church if it be not in Pastors and Councils. Answer, showing by passages from the Old Testament that Pastors were often devoid of the spirit of knowledge and truth. 4. Passages from the New Testament showing that our times were to be subject to the same evil. This confirmed by the example of almost all ages. 5. All not Pastors who … John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion The Earliest Chapters in Divine Revelation John's Introduction. Hosea Links Hosea 9:3 NIVHosea 9:3 NLT Hosea 9:3 ESV Hosea 9:3 NASB Hosea 9:3 KJV Hosea 9:3 Bible Apps Hosea 9:3 Parallel Hosea 9:3 Biblia Paralela Hosea 9:3 Chinese Bible Hosea 9:3 French Bible Hosea 9:3 German Bible Hosea 9:3 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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