Hosea 7:15 KJV — MannaFest

Hosea 7:15

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

KJV

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ASV

Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet do they devise mischief against me.

WEB

Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.

YLT

And I instructed--I strengthened their arms, And concerning Me they think evil!

DBT

I have indeed trained, I have strengthened their arms, but they imagine mischief against me.

About this book

Old Testament

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Hosea — A prophet commanded to marry an unfaithful wife — his marriage becomes the sermon. Fourteen chapters on covenant unfaithfulness and a love that will not let Israel go.

Author: Hosea son of Beeri (1:1)
Date: Ministry c. 755–715 BC — the decades leading up to the 722 BC fall of the northern kingdom

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18 verses on the floor

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;
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.
Hosea 11:3
I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
Job 5:17
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

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25, 26 ), had girded them with strength for battle. "Though I have chastened them" (so the margin reads it), "sometimes corrected them for their faults and thereby taught them, at other times strengthened their arms and relieved them, though I have used both fair means and foul to work upon them, it was all to no purpose; they were mercy-proof and judgment-proof." 2.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Sin is a mischievous thin; it is mischief against God, for it is treason against his crown and dignity; not that the sinners can do any thing to hurt their Creator (as one of the ancients observes on these words), but what they can they do; and it is so much the worse when it is not done by surprise, or through inadvertency, but designedly and with contrivance.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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 (Ps 18:34; 144:1), namely, under Jeroboam II (2Ki 14:25).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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HOS 7:15NAH 1:9 PSA 21:11
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
HOS 7:15JOB 5:17 PRO 3:11-12
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
HOS 7:15JOB 5:17 REV 3:19
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
HOS 7:15PSA 2:1 ACT 4:25-26
HOS 7:15JOB 5:17 JAS 1:12
HOS 7:15ACT 4:25 PSA 2:1-6
HOS 7:15JOB 5:17 PSA 94:12
HOS 7:15NAH 1:9 PRO 21:30

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