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**spoileth** = strippeth.

**consider not in** = say not to. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaean, Syriac, and Vnlg., read "say not in".

**all** = all of them (kings, princes, and People are idolaters). "All" is put by Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Genus), for the greater part.
**adulterers:** i.e. idolaters. See note on [Hosea 1:2](../../../kjv/hosea/1/2) .
**as** = [hot] like.
**ceaseth** = leaves off.
**raising** = stoking it.
**after he hath kneaded, &c.** = from [the time of] kneading the dough until it is ready for the fire. Then he heats the oven to stop the fermentation. Even so these idolaters. See note on "baker", [Hosea 7:6](../../../kjv/hosea/7/6) .

**In the day of our king.** See [2 Kings 15:10](../../../kjv/2-kings/15/10) .
**day.** Perhaps = [feast] day.
**him.** Supply "themselves" instead of "him".
**sick, &c.** Sick with the heat of wine.
**wine.** Hebrew. *yayin.* App-27 .

**they, &c.** Like the baker in [Hosea 7:4](../../../kjv/hosea/7/4) .
**their baker sleepeth** = their anger smoketh: reading *ye'shan 'apphem* instead of *yashen 'ophehem.* Owing to the similarity in pronunciation and in the ancient form of *Ayin* ( *')* and *Aleph* ('). these letters were interchanged. The *Massorah* contains lists of words where *Aleph* (= ') stands *for Ayin* (= ') and vice versa (see Ginsburg's *Massorah,* letter, vol. i, p. 57, 514; and letter, vol. ii, p. 390, 352, 360, &c). See notes on [Isaiah 49:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/49/7) . [Amos 6:8](../../../kjv/amos/6/8) . [Zephaniah 3:1](../../../kjv/zephaniah/3/1) , &c. The Aram, and Syriac preserve the reading of the primitive text: "their anger smoketh all night" (like the "oven" in [Hosea 7:4](../../../kjv/hosea/7/4) ).
**it:** i.e. the oven.

**all their kings, &c.** Compare [Hosea 8:4](../../../kjv/hosea/8/4) . Of the two houses of Omri and Jehu: Nadab, Zimri, Tibni, Jehoram, Zachariah, Shallum, Pekahiah, and Pekah were all slain by their successors, or others.
**there is.** Some codices, with two early printed editions (one Rabbinic in margin), read "and there".

**people** = peoples, or nations.
**a cake not turned:** i.e. a thin (pan)cake, burnt one side and moist the other, and therefore uneatable.

**Strangers** = Outsiders. Compare [Hosea 8:7](../../../kjv/hosea/8/7) .
**here and there** = sprinkled.

**the pride of Israel.** See note on [Hosea 5:5](../../../kjv/hosea/5/5) .
**they do not return, &c.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 4:29](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/4/29) ).
**the Lord.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .

**silly** = harmless, innocent. *Ang. -Sax., saelig,* happy they call, &c. See [2 Kings 15:19](../../../kjv/2-kings/15/19) ; [2 Kings 17:4-6](../../../kjv/2-kings/17/4-6) . Compare [Hosea 5:13](../../../kjv/hosea/5/13) ; [Hosea 9:3](../../../kjv/hosea/9/3) ; [Hosea 12:1](../../../kjv/hosea/12/1) .

**When** = Howsoever.
**as their congregation hath heard.** Those who know not the Pentateuch may call this "unintelligible"; but see [Leviticus 26:14](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/14) , [Leviticus 26:28](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/28) . [Deuteronomy 27:14-26](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/27/14-26) .
**congregation.** Hebrew. *'edah* is a technical Pentateuchal word which occurs in Exodus fourteen times, in Leviticus twelve times, in Numbers over eighty times, in Joshua fifteen times, in Judges four times, and twice in Kings and Jeremiah. Elsewhere used of any multitude only a few times.

**transgressed** = revolted. Hebrew. *pash* a', as in [Hosea 14:9](../../../kjv/hosea/14/9) . Not the same word as in [Hosea 6:7](../../../kjv/hosea/6/7) , and [Hosea 8:1](../../../kjv/hosea/8/1) .
**I have redeemed them.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 7:8](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/7/8) ; [Deuteronomy 9:26](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/9/26) ; [Deuteronomy 15:15](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/15/15) ; [Deuteronomy 21:8](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/21/8) ; [Deuteronomy 24:18](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/24/18) ).
**redeemed.** Heb *padah.* See note on [Exodus 6:6](../../../kjv/exodus/6/6) , and [Exodus 13:13](../../../kjv/exodus/13/13) .

**they have not cried.** Compare [Job 35:9](../../../kjv/job/35/9) , [Job 35:10](../../../kjv/job/35/10) . [Psalms 78:36](../../../kjv/psalms/78/36) . [Jeremiah 3:10](../../../kjv/jeremiah/3/10) . [Zechariah 7:5](../../../kjv/zechariah/7/5) .
**with their heart.** They cried with their voice.
**assemble themselves.** In their idol temples.
**wine** = new wine. Hebrew. *tirosh.* App-27 . Not the same word as in [Hosea 7:5](../../../kjv/hosea/7/5) .
**rebel against** = apostatized from.

**Though I have bound** = Though I, even I, have warned (or instructed). Compare [Psalms 18:34](../../../kjv/psalms/18/34) ; [Psalms 144:1](../../../kjv/psalms/144/1) .

**to the Most High** = to Him Who is on high. Compare [Hosea 11:7](../../../kjv/hosea/11/7) .
**a deceitful bow.** That disappoints the user, and cannot be depended upon. Compare [Psalms 78:57](../../../kjv/psalms/78/57) .
**for** = because of.
**derision** = ridicule.

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