Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 9:4

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 9:4 - 9:4

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 9:4 - 9:4

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9:1 - 9:1
9:2 - 9:2
9:3 - 9:3
9:4 - 9:4
9:5 - 9:5
9:6 - 9:6
9:7 - 9:7
9:8 - 9:8
9:9 - 9:9
9:10 - 9:10
9:11 - 9:11
9:12 - 9:12
9:13 - 9:13
9:14 - 9:14
9:15 - 9:15
9:16 - 9:16
9:17 - 9:17

offer wine offerings - literally, “pour as a libation (Exo 30:9; Lev 23:13).

neither shall they be pleasing unto him - as being offered on a profane soil.

sacrifices ... as the bread of mourners - which was unclean (Deu 26:14; Jer 16:7; Eze 24:17).

their bread for their soul - their offering for the expiation of their soul [Calvin], (Lev 17:11). Rather, “their bread for their sustenance (‘soul’ being often used for the animal life, Gen 14:21, Margin) shall not come into the Lord’s house”; it shall only subserve their own uses, not My worship.