Charles Ellicott Commentary Hosea 9:15

"All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house; I will love them no more; all their princes are revolters." — Hosea 9:15 (ASV)

Gilgal.— On Gilgal as a seat of idolatrous worship, see Hosea 4:15. My house here, and in Hosea 8:1 (Jehovah’s house), is interpreted by Wünsche and Nowack, with considerable plausibility, to mean the “holy land,” Canaan.

This interpretation is confirmed by the use of the Assyrian word Bîtu, corresponding to the Hebrew bêth “house.” The term seems to have blended the conception of a people and the territory they occupied. (See Schrader, Keilinschriften und das alte Testament, p. 540, where the examples are cited: Bît-Am-ma-na, “Ammon,” Bît-A-di-ni, “Beth-Eden.”)

Similarly, Egypt is called in Exodus 20:2, the house of slaves. We are reminded by the word “house” of the domestic episode (Hosea 1–3): Ephraim, like an adulterous wife, is turned out of house and home , and is no longer Jehovah’s people (Hosea 1:9).