Hosea 7:15

Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

King James Version · Read in your translation · Open the Explore console

Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
bound	יִסַּ֔רְתִּי yi.Sar.ti	H3256	to chastise · verb, piel perfect, 1st person common singular
strengthened	חִזַּ֖קְתִּי chi.Zak.ti	H2388	to fasten upon · verb, piel perfect, 1st person common singular
arms	זְרֽוֹעֹתָ֑ם ze.ro.'o.Tam	H2220	the arm (as stretched out) · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
imagine	יְחַשְּׁבוּ ye.cha.she.vu-	H2803	properly · verb, piel imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
mischief	רָֽע Ra'	H7451	bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral) · adjective, masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Nahum 1:9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
Psalms 94:12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
2 Kings 13:23 And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and…
2 Kings 14:25-27 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, whic…
Job 5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
Psalms 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Psalms 62:3 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
Psalms 106:43-45 Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Hosea 7:8–end

Having seen how vicious and corrupt the court was, we now come to enquire how it is with the country, and we find that to be no better; and no marvel if the distemper that has so seized the head affect the whole body, so that there is no soundness in it; the iniquity of Ephraim is discovered, as well as the sin of Samaria, of the people as well as the princes, of which here are divers instances. I. They were not peculiar and entire for God, as they should have been, Hos 7:8. 1. They did not distinguish themselves from the heathen, as God had distinguished them: Ephraim, he has mingled himself among the people, has associated with them, and conformed himself to them, and has in a manner confo…

Read the whole note in the console

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hosea 7:15

I . . . bound--when I saw their arms as it were relaxed with various disasters, I bound them so as to strengthen their sinews; image from surgery [CALVIN]. MAURER translates, "I instructed them" to war (Psa 18:34; Psa 144:1), namely, under Jeroboam II (Kg2 14:25). GROTIUS explains, "Whether I chastised them (Margin) or strengthened their arms, they imagined mischief against Me." English Version is best.

Adam Clarke on Hosea 7:15

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.

John Gill on Hosea 7:15

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…

The Church Fathers

"and I taught them a lesson. I strengthened their arms, and they thought evil against me." LXX: "they were instructed in me, and I strengthened their arms, and they thought evil against me." The Lord says, "I have taught them, I have provided strength, and they have raised their necks against me; not that they can do anything and harm their Creator, but what they could do, they thought evil against me." But those who do this depart from the Lord who taught them in the Church, and gave them the strength to fight their enemies. They, on the other hand, considered evil against the Lord, building the most impious heresies.
— Jerome, Commentary on Hosea 7:14-16

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Confidence · FALSE — FALSE
Impenitence · 2:4,5;3:1-11,19,26;12:2;20:8,13,21;33:4,5,9; — 2:4,5;3:1-11,19,26;12:2;20:8,13,21;33:4,5,9;
Infidelity · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Ingratitude · 2:6,7; — 2:6,7;

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Hosea 7:15

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Hosea 7:8–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hosea 7:15

Adam Clarke on Hosea 7:15

John Gill on Hosea 7:15

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Hosea 7:15

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Hosea 7:8–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hosea 7:15

Adam Clarke on Hosea 7:15

John Gill on Hosea 7:15

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Hosea 7:15

Keil & Delitzsch on Hosea 7:15–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Hosea 7:14

Rashi on Hosea 7:15