Hosea 10:10

I should chastise them. On the purpose of the Captivity see pp. 31, 568. Gathered. The instruments of God’s punishment will be the foreign invaders (see on Isa. 7:20). Just as the other tribes were gathered against the tribe of Benjamin at Gibeah to destroy it, so now against the ten tribes will be gathered divers peoples and nations to destroy Israel. The numbers gathered against Israel will be as overwhelming as that of all the tribes against the one small tribe of Benjamin (see Judges 20). Two furrows. According to Masoretic tradition, the LXX, Syriac, and the Vulgate, this should read “two transgressions.” Israel’s punishment is bound to her transgressions, and like yoked animals, the people will have to drag this punishment after them. God’s people had thrown off the light and easy yoke of God (see on Matt. 11:29, 30), and bound themselves in their own ways of sin. In that sin destruction would overtake them.