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title: "Wesley"
description: "Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against"
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Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
*Set the trumpet* — The Lord here commands the prophet to publish, as by sound of trumpet, that which God will bring upon apostate Israel.
*He* — The king of Assyria.
*As an eagle* — Swift, hungry, surmounting all difficulties.
*House of the Lord* — The family of Israel, the Israelites church.

Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
*Shall cry* — But not sincerely.

They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
*They* — Israel.
*Kings* — Shallum, Menahem, Pekah, and Hosea.
*Not by me* — Not by my direction.
*Knew it not* — Did not approve of it.

Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
*Thy calf* — The chief idol set up in Samaria.
*Cast thee off* — Hath provoked God to cast thee off.
*Against them* — Idols, and idol worshippers.
*How long* — How long will it be, ere they repent and reform?

For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
*From Israel* — By their invention.
*It* — Both the idol and the worshippers of it.

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
*Sown the wind* — A proverbial speech to denote lost labour.
*Whirlwind* — A tempest, which destroyeth all that is in its way; an emblem of the wrath of God.
*No stalk* — All your dependance on idols, and foreign assistance, will be as seed that bear neither stalk nor bud.
*No meal* — Or suppose it produced stalk and bud, yet the bud shall be blasted, and never yield meal.

For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
*Gone up* — Israel is like a wild ass.
*A wild ass* — Stubborn, wild, untamed.
*Alone* — Solitary, where is no path or tract; so they were in their captivity.

Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
*Gather them* — I will assemble them together, that they may be taken and destroyed together.
*A little* — For a while before their final captivity.
*The burden* — The tribute laid on them by the king.

Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
*Altars* — Those which they shall find in Assyria.
*To sin* — Shall be the occasion of his greater guilt and punishment.

I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
*Written* — By Moses first, by other prophets afterwards.
*But they were counted* — Israel looks on them, as nothing to them.

They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
*They shall return* — Many shall fly from the Assyrian into Egypt.

For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
*Temples* — Idol temples.
*Devour the palaces* — This was fulfilled when all the cities of Judah and Israel were laid in ashes by the king of Assyria.

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