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Hosea 7:15

Sekalipun Aku telah melatih dan menguatkan lengan-lengan mereka, namun mereka merancang kejahatan terhadap Aku.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Confidence;   Impenitence;   Infidelity;   Ingratitude;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hosea;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Imagine;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sekalipun Aku telah melatih dan menguatkan lengan-lengan mereka, namun mereka merancang kejahatan terhadap Aku.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bahwasanya Aku juga dapat menguatkan dan menyokong lengannya, tetapi selalu mereka itu berpikirkan jahat akan Daku.

Contextual Overview

8 Ephraim hath mixt him selfe among [heathen] people, Ephraim is become like a cake that no man turneth. 9 Straungers haue deuoured his strength, and he regardeth it not: he waxeth full of gray heeres, yet wyll he not knowe it. 10 And the pryde of Israel testifieth to his face, yet wyll they not turne to the Lorde their God, nor seeke hym for all this. 11 Ephraim is like a doue that is begyled and hath no heart: nowe call they vpon the Egyptians, now go they to the Assyrians. 12 But whyle they be goyng here and there I shal spreade my net ouer them, and drawe them downe as the foules of the ayre: and according as they haue ben warned, so wyll I punishe them. 13 Wo be vnto them, for they haue forsaken me, they must be destroyed, for they haue set me at naught: I am he that hath redeemed them, yet haue they spoken lyes agaynst me. 14 They call not vpon me with their heartes, but lye howlyng vpon their beddes: they wyll assemble them selues for corne and wine, but rebel against me. 15 I haue bounde [vp] and strengthened their arme: yet do they imagine mischiefe agaynst me. 16 They turne them selues, but not to the most hyest, and are become as a broken bowe, their princes shalbe slayne with the sworde for the malice of their tongues: this shalbe their derision in the lande of Egypt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I have: 2 Kings 13:5, 2 Kings 13:23, 2 Kings 14:25-27, Psalms 106:43-45

bound: or, chastened, Job 5:17, Psalms 94:12, Proverbs 3:11, Hebrews 12:5, Revelation 3:19

imagine: Psalms 2:1, Psalms 62:3, Jeremiah 17:9, Nahum 1:9, Acts 4:25, Romans 1:21, 2 Corinthians 10:5

Reciprocal: Proverbs 31:17 - strengtheneth

Cross-References

Genesis 7:19
And the waters preuayled exceedingly vpon the earth, and al the high hilles that are vnder the whole heauen, were couered.
Genesis 7:20
Fyfteene cubites vpward did the waters preuayle, so that the mountaynes were couered.
Isaiah 11:6
The Woolfe shall dwell with the Lambe, and the Leoparde shall lye downe by the Goate: Bullockes, Lions, and cattell, shall kepe company together, so that a litle chylde shall leade them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Though I have bound [and] strengthened their arms,.... As a surgeon sets a broken arm and swathes and binds it, and so restores it to its former strength, or at least to a good degree of strength again, so the Lord dealt with Israel; their arms were broken, and their strength weakened, and they greatly distressed and reduced by the Syrians in the times of Jehoahaz; but they were brought into a better state and condition in the times of Joash and Jeroboam the second; the former retook several cities out of the hands of the Syrians, and the latter restored the border of Israel, and greatly enlarged it; and as all this was done through the blessing of divine Providence, the Lord is said to do it himself. Some render it, "though I have chastised, I have strengthened their arms" u; though he corrected them for their sins in the times of Jehoahaz, and suffered their arms to be broken by their enemies, for their instruction, and in order to bring them to repentance for their sins; yet he strengthened them again in the following reigns:

yet do they imagine mischief against me; so ungrateful were they, they contrived to do hurt to his prophets that were sent to them in his name, to warn them of their sins and danger, and exhort them to repent, and forsake their idolatrous worship, and other sins; and they sought by all means to dishonour the name of the Lord, by imputing their success in the reigns of Joash and Jeroboam to their idols, and not unto him; and so hardened themselves against him, and in their evil ways.

u ואני יסרתי חזקתי זרועתם "castigavi", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Vatablus, Cocceius, Tarnovius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Though I have bound - Rather, (as in the E. M) “And I have chastened, I have strenghened their arms, and they imagine mischief against Me.” God had tried all ways with them, but it was all one. He chastened them in love, and in love He strengthened them; He brought the enemy upon them, (as aforetime in the days of the Judges,) and He gave them strength to repel the enemy; as He raised up judges of old, and lately had fulfilled His promise which He had made to Joash through Elisha. But it was all in vain. Whatever God did, Israel was still the same. All only issued in further evil. The prophet sums up in four words all God’s varied methods for their recovery, and then sets over against them the one result, fresh rebellion on the part of His creatures and His people.

They imagine - Or “devise mischief against Me.” The order in the Hebrew is emphatic, “and against Me they devise evil;” i. e., “against Me,” who had thus tried all the resources and methods of divine wisdom to reclaim them, “they devise evil.” These are words of great condescension. For the creature can neither hurt nor profit the Creator. But since God vouchsafed to be their King, He deigned to look upon their rebellions, as so many efforts to injure Him. All God’s creatures are made for His glory, and on earth, chiefly man; and among men, chiefly those whom He had chosen as His people. In that, then, they set themselves to diminish that glory, giving to idols (see Isaiah 42:8), they, as far as in them lay, “devised evil against” Him. Man would dethrone God, if he could.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. Though I have bound and strengthened their arms — Whether I dealt with them in judgment or mercy, it was all one; in all circumstances they rebelled against me.


 
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