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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 10:10 - 10:10
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my desire ... chastise - expressing God’s strong inclination to vindicate His justice against sin, as being the infinitely holy God (Deu 28:63).
the people - Foreign invaders “shall be gathered against them.”
when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows - image from two oxen ploughing together side by side, in two contiguous furrows: so the Israelites shall join themselves, to unite their powers against all dangers, but it will not save them from My destroying them [Calvin]. Their “two furrows” may refer to their two places of setting up the calves, their ground of confidence, Dan and Beth-el; or, the two divisions of the nation, Israel and Judah, “in their two furrows,” that is, in their respective two places of habitation; Hos 10:11, which specifies the two, favors this view. Henderson prefers the Keri (Hebrew Margin) “for their two iniquities”; and translates, “when they are bound” in captivity. English Version is best, as the image is carried out in Hos 10:11; only it is perhaps better to translate, “the people (the invaders) binding them,” that is, making them captives; and so Hos 10:11 alludes to the yoke being put on the neck of Ephraim and Judah.