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Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones. See also: Hosea 8:11Leviticus 26:1Isaiah 5:1-7Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones. See also: 1 Kings 18:21Micah 5:13James 4:4Surely now they will say, “We have no king; for we don’t fear the LORD; and the king, what can he do for us?” See also: Hosea 10:15Hosea 10:7Hosea 13:11They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. See also: Amos 5:7Hosea 4:2Amos 6:12The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven, for its people will mourn over it, along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it. See also: Hosea 9:112 Kings 23:5Hosea 5:8It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel. See also: Hosea 5:13Isaiah 30:3Jeremiah 7:24Samaria and her king float away like a twig on the water. See also: Hosea 10:3Jude 1:132 Kings 1:3The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, “Cover us!” and the hills, “Fall on us!” See also: Revelation 6:16Luke 23:30Isaiah 2:19“Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn’t overtake them in Gibeah. See also: Hosea 9:9Judges 20:5Judges 19:22-30When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the nations will be gathered against them when they are bound to their two transgressions. See also: Ezekiel 5:13Jeremiah 16:16Hosea 4:9Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh, so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods. See also: Hosea 4:16Jeremiah 50:11Deuteronomy 25:4Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and rains righteousness on you. See also: Jeremiah 4:3-4James 3:18Isaiah 45:8You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men. See also: Job 4:8Galatians 6:7-8Proverbs 22:8Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children. See also: Hosea 13:16Habakkuk 1:102 Kings 18:9-10So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed. See also: Hosea 10:5Romans 7:13Amos 7:9-17
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)15 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Hosea 10:1
Ver. 1. Branches. Sept. "Wood." Sym. This is all: it yields no fruit. Prot.
"empty." H. --- Heb.
"plucked." The grapes are taken away, as the Israelites were; though they boasted of their numbers. C. ix. 16. They are often compared to a vine, the symbol of fecundity. Is. v. 3. Ps.
cxxvii. 3. C. --- The greater benefits of God enhanced their ingratitude. W. --- On every noted hill (H.) profane altars were erected.
↑ 1Hosea 10:2
Ver. 2. Divided between the Lord and idols. 3 K. xviii. 21. C. --- The Jews relate that Osee, the last king of Israel, gave the people leave to go to Jerusalem; (4
K. xvii. 2.) and as they would not take advantage of it, their ruin was decreed.
S. Jer.
↑ 2Hosea 10:3
Ver. 3. No king, in captivity; or they give this title to the golden calf. Manahem had destroyed one, so that they could not but see its vanity. The neighbouring nations looked upon their idols as their kings.
↑ 3Hosea 10:4
Ver. 4. Covenant with Phul, who seeks only your destruction. 4 K. xv. 19. C. ---
Bitterness.
Heb. "poison," (H.) or a bitter herb. C.
↑ 4Hosea 10:5
Ver. 5. The kine of Bethaven. The golden calves of Jeroboam, (Ch.) one of which (H.) was set up at Bethel. W. --- The feminine cows, is spoken in ridicule; as (C.) O verè Phrygiæ, Æn. ix. Isis was represented with a cow's head. Herod.
ii. 41. --- Rejoiced. To avoid this apparent contradiction, the Jews relate that the priests had sent a brazen calf to the Assyrians, and secreted the golden one. While they rejoiced at their success, Salmanasar, (Seder. Olam.) or Sennacherib, discovered the cheat, and came to destroy the kingdom. S. Jer.
--- This has the air of a fable. If (C.) we substitute e for g, in yagilu, (H.) we may give a good sense to the Heb. "The people shouting, or in black, ( cemaraiv) have been in sorrow, because their glory is taken from them: so the idol is called. Ps. cv. 20. C.
↑ 5Hosea 10:6
Ver. 6. Itself also is carried, &c. One of the golden calves was given by king Manahem to Phul, king of the Assyrians, to engage him to stand by him. Ch. ---
Avenging. C. v. 13. --- Will, or expectation of aid. C. --- He had recourse to this nation, without consulting God. H.
↑ 6Hosea 10:7
Ver. 7. Pass. Heb. "As for Samaria, it is undone. Its king is like froth, or a bubble," &c. C. xi. 1.
The calf; (v. 3.) Zacharias or Osee may be meant.
↑ 7Hosea 10:8
Ver. 8. Us, as the Jews would do at the last siege, and sinners before the day of judgment. Lu.
xxiii. 30. Apoc. vi. 14. Too happy, if they could by a speedy death escape eternal torments! C.
--- People shall be in the utmost consternation at the approach of the Assyrians. H. --- They will not think themselves secure enough in their caverns.
↑ 8Hosea 10:9
Ver. 9. Gabaa. Sept. "high places;" or he alludes to the brutality of the citizens.
Judg. xx. 13. ---
Stood. Those of Gabaa were speedily punished by the other tribes. Now, all are perverse. At that time one tribe was guilty, and yet some were spared; but all Israel shall be now led into captivity.
C. --- From the time that Dan adored Micha's idol, (Jud. xviii. 14.) the evil has spread among the rest of the tribes, which did not punish this transgression.
Hence all shall at last suffer. W.
↑ 9Hosea 10:10
Ver. 10. Their two iniquities. Their two calves; (Ch.) or because they have abandoned God, and followed idols. Jer. ii. 13. Many render, "when I shall have tied them, like oxen, in their two furrows." But the Vulg. is plainer, and adopted by most.
↑ 10Hosea 10:11
Ver. 11. Neck. I will confine her to harder labour. While the oxen tred out corn, they may eat.
Deut. xxv. 4. --- Himself. Juda shall be chastised after the ten tribes; so that none of my people shall escape.
↑ 11Hosea 10:12
Ver. 12. Mouth. Heb. "in proportion to (C.) your piety." Sept. "gather a vintage of the fruit of life." H. --- Ground. Reform you conduct. C. --- Justice, when Christ shall appear, the source of all our grace and justice. S. Jer. &c. C. ---
Sept. "Light up for yourselves the light of knowledge, for it is time; seek the Lord, till ye obtain the fruit of justice."
↑ 12Hosea 10:13
Ver. 13. Ploughed. Sept. "Why have you concealed impiety," refusing to confess? H. ---
Iniquity, or punishment. --- Lying. Your hopes are frustrated, and no fruit is seen. C. --- Ways: idols. S. Jer.
↑ 13Hosea 10:14
Ver. 14. Tumult. Heb. shaon; the din of war, (H.) or cry of soldiers. C. ---
Salmana, king of the Madianites, was destroyed by the house; that is, by the followers of him that judgeth Baal; that is, of Gedeon, who threw down the altar of Baal, and was therefore called Jerobaal. See Judg. vi.
and viii. Ch. --- Of him. Sept. Rom. "of Jeroboam." But S. Jer. &c. have, Jerobaal. Theodoret,
"in the house of Arbeel." Heb. "as Salmana ruined the house of Arbela." There were many places of this name; but none of great note, taken by Salmanasar.
Some think that he took it before he was king. Yet this is all uncertain, and the Heb. seems rather changed, so that we should read with the Alex. MS. S. Jer.
&c. Jerobaal, who defeated the Madianites, and treated Succoth with great severity. Judg. viii. 15. C.
↑ 14Hosea 10:15
Ver. 15. Bethel. This place, defiled by an idol, shall be the scene of your misery.
Sept. "So I will treat you, O house of Israel," &c. (H.) which is not in Heb. (S.
Jer.) but seems as good. H. ---
Heb. adds here properly, (C.) "Presently, or in the morning, shall the king of Israel be utterly cut off," which we have in the next chapter.
↑ 15License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses