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Hos 10:1-15. Israel’s idolatry, the source of perjuries and unlawful leagues, soon destined to be the ruin of the state, their king and their images being about to be carried off; A just chastisement, the reaping corresponding to the sowing.
The prophecy was uttered between Shalmaneser’s first and second invasions of Israel. Compare Hos 10:14; also Hos 10:6, referring to Hoshea’s calling So of Egypt to his aid; also Hos 10:4, Hos 10:13.
empty - stripped of its fruits [Calvin], (Nah 2:2); compelled to pay tribute to Pul (2Ki 15:20). Maurer translates, “A widespreading vine”; so the Septuagint. Compare Gen 49:22; Psa 80:9-11; Eze 17:6.
bringeth forth fruit unto himself - not unto Me.
according to ... multitude of ... fruit ... increased ... altars - In proportion to the abundance of their prosperity, which called for fruit unto God (compare Rom 6:22), was the abundance of their idolatry (Hos 8:4, Hos 8:11).