Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 13:15 - 13:15
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
fruitful - referring to the meaning of “Ephraim,” from a Hebrew root, “to be fruitful” (Gen 41:52). It was long the most numerous and flourishing of the tribes (Gen 48:19).
wind of the Lord - that is, sent by the Lord (compare Isa 40:7), who has His instruments of punishment always ready. The Assyrian, Shalmaneser, etc., is meant (Jer 4:11; Jer 18:17; Eze 19:12).
from the wilderness - that is, the desert part of Syria (1Ki 19:15), the route from Assyria into Israel.
he - the Assyrian invader. Shalmaneser began the siege of Samaria in 723 b.c. Its close was in 721 b.c., the first year of Sargon, who seems to have usurped the throne of Assyria while Shalmaneser was at the siege of Samaria. Hence, while 2Ki 17:6 states, “the king of Assyria took Samaria,” 2Ki 18:10 says, “at the end of three years they took it.” In Sargon’s magnificent palace at Khorsabad, inscriptions mention the number - 27,280 - of Israelites carried captive from Samaria and other places of Israel by the founder of the palace [G. V. Smith].