Hosea 9:15
in Hosea 9All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
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ASV
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.
KJV
All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
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This verse in Hosea 9
Commentary
11 notes on this verse"All their wickedness is at Gilgal: for there I hated them." LXX similarly. In Gilgal, Saul was anointed as king, with Samuel announcing God's anger to the people. (1 Kings 10) "There," he said, "I had them skinned, and they asked for a human king, and withdrew from my authority. Whether it was because Galgala is a place of idolatry, where they committed all kinds of sin.
This site's exposition
All their wickedness is in Gilgal
on Hosea 9:15-17
All their wickedness is in Gilgal names the site where Saul was made king, which the bench reads as marking where Israel's monarchy first began drifting from obedience, so the Lord's hatred there is dated to a specific historical wound rather than a vague general charge. I will love them no more answers Hosea's own children's names from chapter one, Lo-ruhamah's withheld mercy spoken again here in the Lord's own voice against a nation that will not turn. The chapter closes on Ephraim smitten, root dried up, no fruit, and the final verdict, my God will cast them away, and they shall be wanderers among the nations, a sentence the bench connects to the covenant curses of Deuteronomy twenty-eight finally falling due.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
While he was still praying, an angel of the Lord, very terrifying, appeared to him, having in his hand a fiery sword unsheathed. He said to our father Pachomius, "Just as God has blotted out his name from the 'Book of Life,' just so do …
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
In Gilgal, where all their wickedness is, there I hated them. There, where the abominations of sin are committed, there God abominates the sinners. In Gilgal he had bestowed many tokens of his favour upon their ancestors, but now that is the place where he hates them for their base ingratitude.
6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles. The people of Israel are charged with spiritual adultery: O Israel! thou hast gone a whoring from thy God,
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), the downright malice that was in their sins; they were not infirmities, but daring presumptions. How can those but do wickedly who will not hearken to the word of God, that would teach and persuade them to do well?
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All their wickedness - The chief or beginning. There I hated them - As there they began to sin so notoriously, there I began to shew that I hated them.
4 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Ah their wickedness is in Gilgal,....
The Nineteenth Century3 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
All their wickedness is in Gilgal - “Gilgal,” having been the scene of so many of God’s mercies, had been, on that very ground, chosen as a popular scene for idol-worship (see the note above at Hos 4:15).
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Or, as "love" is mentioned immediately after, the reference may be to the Hebrew mode of divorce, the husband (God) putting the wife (Israel) out of the house. princes . . . revolters--"Sarim . . . Sorerim" (Hebrew), a play on similar sounds.
All their wickedness is in Gilgal - Though we are not directly informed of the fact, yet we have reason to believe they had been guilty of some scandalous practices of idolatry in Gilgal See Hos 4:15. For there I hated them - And therefore he determined, “for the wickedness of their doings, to drive them out of his house,” so that they should cease to be a part of the heavenly family, either as sons or servants; for he would “love them no more,” and bear with them no longer.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
Give them, O Lord, what You will give The prophet prays that they should die when young, for the mourning for a child is not as bad as the mourning for an adult.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
17 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| רָעָתָ֤ם | raatam | wickedness their | H7451 → | 662 times |
| בַּגִּלְגָּל֙ | bagilgal | [is] in <the> Gilgal | H1537 → | 41 times |
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| שָׁ֣ם | sham | there | H8033 → | 834 times |
| שְׂנֵאתִ֔ים | senetim | I hated them | H8130 → | |
| עַ֚ל | ʾal | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| רֹ֣עַ | roa' | [the] wickedness of | H7455 → | |
| מַֽעַלְלֵיהֶ֔ם | maaleihem | deeds their | H4611 → | 41 times |
| מִבֵּיתִ֖י | mibeiti | from house my | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| אֲגָרְשֵׁ֑ם | ʾagareshem | I will drive out them | H1644 → | |
| לֹ֤א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| אוֹסֵף֙ | ʾosef | I will repeat | H3254 → | 212 times |
| אַהֲבָתָ֔ם | ʾahavatam | to love them | H160 → | 38 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| שָׂרֵיהֶ֖ם | sareihem | leaders their | H8269 → | 421 times |
| סֹרְרִֽים׃ | sorerim | [are] rebellious | H5637 → | 17 times |
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
רָעָתָ֤םwickedness their
raatamH7451 →662 times
בַּגִּלְגָּל֙[is] in <the> Gilgal
bagilgalH1537 →41 times
כִּֽי־for
ki-H3588 →4482 times
שָׁ֣םthere
shamH8033 →834 times
שְׂנֵאתִ֔יםI hated them
senetimH8130 →
עַ֚לon
ʾalH5921 →5755 times
רֹ֣עַ[the] wickedness of
roa'H7455 →
מַֽעַלְלֵיהֶ֔םdeeds their
maaleihemH4611 →41 times
מִבֵּיתִ֖יfrom house my
mibeitiH1004 →2046 times
אֲגָרְשֵׁ֑םI will drive out them
ʾagareshemH1644 →
לֹ֤אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
אוֹסֵף֙I will repeat
ʾosefH3254 →212 times
אַהֲבָתָ֔םto love them
ʾahavatamH160 →38 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
שָׂרֵיהֶ֖םleaders their
sareihemH8269 →421 times
סֹרְרִֽים׃[are] rebellious
sorerimH5637 →17 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Amos 5:5Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
it leads to
- Hosea 4:15
Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Amos 4:4
“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Amos 8:14
Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”
- Genesis 21:33
And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.
- Hosea 4:15
Through
Isaiah 1:23Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
it leads to
- Micah 7:3
Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
- Zechariah 7:10
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
- Exodus 23:8
Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.
- Micah 7:3
Through
Hosea 12:11Is there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.
it leads to
- Hosea 8:11
Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
- Hosea 8:11
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Twelve Minor Prophets; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Hosea 9:15; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Pachomius the Great, LIFE OF PACHOMIUS (BOHAIRIC) 108.