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Hosea 7:1

King James Version (KJV)

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Hosea 7:1

Verse 1 of 16

Scripture focus

When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, [and] the troop of robbers spoileth without.

Hosea 7:1 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Hosea 7:1

Theological / Devotional

I would have healed. Some suggest that the healing mentioned refers to the prophetic admonitions and rebukes with which God purposed to heal His people’s backslidings. Others hold that the healing refers to the partial restoration of the nation’s prosperity in the reign of Jeroboam II (see 2 Kings 14:25-27; Elisha 2:8). However, Israel’s moral and spiritual disease had been so obstinate and critical that it prevailed against the remedy God might have applied to it. The remedy seemed only to aggravate the disease and to reveal its malignancy.

Discovered. Or, “uncovered,” or “revealed.”

Robbers. Evidently gangs of highwaymen who publicly infested the roads, plundering the passers-by. They are contrasted with the “thief,” who is depicted as doing his work secretly, within the house.

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