Hosea 10:7

"It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel."

Key Reflection

In this passage, Hosea foretells that Israel's sins will lead to their judgment, with significant consequences such as exile to Assyria where they will offer gifts to a powerful king. This shame reflects not just external humiliation but also the realization of their own poor choices and misguided strategies for survival.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Her king is cut off like foam -(Or, more probably, “a straw) on the” (literally, “face of the) water.” A bubble, or one of those little shreds which float in countless numbers on the surface of the water, give the same image of lightness, emptiness, worthlessness, a thing too light to sink, but driven impetuously, and unresistingly, here and there, at the impulse of the torrent which hurries it along. Such was the king, whom Israel had set in the highest place, in whom it had trusted, instead of God. So easily was Hoshea, their last king, swept away by the flood, which broke in on Ephraim, from Assyria.

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