John Gill Commentary Hosea 10:13

John Gill Commentary

Hosea 10:13

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
John Gill
John Gill

John Gill Commentary

Hosea 10:13

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
SCRIPTURE

"Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies; for thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men." — Hosea 10:13 (ASV)

You have ploughed wickedness
Contrived it, and took a great deal of pains to commit it; by ploughing sowed it, and which sprung up in a plentiful crop: it may denote their first sins, from which all others arose; as their irreligion and infidelity; their apostasy from God; their idolatry and contempt of his word and prophets:

You have reaped iniquity ;
abundance of other sins have sprung up from thence; a large harvest of them have been reaped and got in; or great numbers of other sins have been committed; one sin leads on to another, and these proceed "ad infinitum"; wickedness is of an increasing nature, and grows worse and worse, and proceeds to more ungodliness: many understand this of the punishment or reward of sin:

You have eaten the fruit of lies ;
as a sweet morsel though bread of deceit; which could not profit them, nor yield them in the issue the pleasure it promised them, and they hoped for from it:

Because you did trust in your way ;
in the worship of their idols, and in their alliances with neighbouring nations, and promised themselves great prosperity and happiness from hence:

And in the multitude of your mighty men ;
their valiant soldiers, their numerous armies, and the generals of them, well skilled in war, and courageous; and also in their auxiliaries, which they had from the Egyptians and others; these they put their confidences in, to protect them; and so in their garrisons and fortresses, as the following words show: