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Hosea 12:11
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(12-12) Bila di Gilead ada kejahatan, maka mereka menjadi kesia-siaan belaka; di Gilgal mereka mempersembahkan lembu-lembu jantan, maka mezbah-mezbah mereka juga menjadi seperti timbunan batu di alur-alur ladang.
Dan Akupun berfirman kepadamu dengan lidah segala nabi, bahkan, Aku sudah memperbanyakkan khayal, dan dengan lidah segala nabipun Kuberitahu beberapa ibarat kepada mereka itu.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
iniquity: Hosea 6:8, 1 Kings 17:1
surely: Jeremiah 10:8, Jeremiah 10:15, Jonah 2:8
they sacrifice: Hosea 4:15, Hosea 9:15, Amos 4:4, Amos 5:5
their altars: Hosea 8:11, Hosea 10:1, 2 Kings 17:9-11, Jeremiah 2:20, Jeremiah 2:28
Reciprocal: Numbers 23:14 - built seven 1 Kings 12:31 - an house 2 Chronicles 28:24 - he made Isaiah 2:8 - is full Jeremiah 11:13 - For according Jeremiah 17:1 - and upon Ezekiel 16:31 - makest Hosea 8:13 - but
Cross-References
Abram passed through the lande, vnto the place of Sichem, vnto the plaine of Moreh. And the Chanaanite [was] then in the lande.
And the Lorde appearyng vnto Abram, sayd, Unto thy seede wyl I geue this lande: And there buylded he an aulter vnto the Lorde whiche appeared vnto hym.
And so when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians behelde the woman, for she was very fayre.
And the men of the place asked [him] of his wyfe. And he sayde, she is my sister: for he feared to say, she is my wyfe, lest the men of the place shoulde haue kylled hym, because of Rebecca, whiche was beautifull to the eye.
Lea was tender eyed: but Rachel was beautifull and well fauoured.
And in an euening tyde, Dauid arose out of his bed, and walked vpon the roofe of the kinges palace, and from the roofe he sawe a woman washing her selfe, and the woman was very beautifull to loke vpon.
There is no wysdome, there is no vnderstanding, there is no counsayle against the Lorde.
a cluster of Camphire in the vineyardes of Engaddi is my loue vnto me.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead?.... Idolatry there? strange that there should be, seeing it was a city of the priests; a city of refuge; or there is none there, say the priests, who pretended they did not worship idols, but the true Jehovah in them: or, "is [there] not iniquity", or idolatry, "in Gilead" e? verily there is, let them pretend to what they will: or, "is [there only] iniquity in it" f? that the men of it should be carried captive, as they were by TiglathPileser, before the rest of the tribes; see 2 Kings 15:29; no, there is iniquity and idolatry committed in other places, as well as there, who must expect to share the same fate in time: or, "is Gilead Aven?" g that is, Bethaven, the same with Bethel; it is as that, as guilty of idolatry as Bethel, where one of the calves was set up:
surely they are vanity: the inhabitants of Gilead, as well as of Bethel, worshipping idols, which are most vain things, vanity itself, and deceive those that serve them, and trust in them:
they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal: to idols, as the Targum adds; and so Jarchi and Kimchi; according to Aben Ezra, they sacrificed them to Baal; this shows that Gilead was not the only place for idolatry, which was on the other side Jordan, but Gilgal, which was on this side Jordan, was also polluted with it. The Vulgate Latin version is,
"in Gilgal they were sacrificing to bullocks;''
to the calves there, the same as were at Dan and Bethel; so, in the Septuagint version of 1 Kings 12:29; it was formerly read: and so Cyril h quotes it, "[he] (Jeroboam) set the one (calf) in Gilgal, and the other [in] Dan"; hence the fable that Epiphanius i makes mention of, that, when Elisha was born, the golden ox or heifer at Gilgal bellowed very loudly, and so loud as to be heard at Jerusalem. The Targum makes mention of an idol temple here; and as it was near to Bethel, as appears from 1 Samuel 10:3; and from Josephus k; and so Jerom says l, hard by Bethel; some suspect another Gilgal; hence it might be put for it; however, it was a place of like idolatrous worship; it is mentioned as such along with Bethaven or Bethel, in Hosea 4:15; see also Hosea 9:15;
yea, their altars [are] as heaps in, the furrows of the fields; not only in the city of Gilgal, and in the temple there, as the Targum; but even without the city, in the fields they set up altars, which looked like heaps of stones; or they had a multitude of altars that stood as thick as they. So the Targum,
"they have multiplied their altars, like heaps upon the borders of the fields;''
and the Jewish commentators in general understand this as expressive of the number of their altars, and of the increase of idolatrous worship; but some interpret it of the destruction of their altars, which should become heaps of stones and rubbish, like such as are in fields. These words respect Ephraim or the ten tribes, in which these places were, whose idolatry is again taken notice of, after gracious promises were made to Judah. Some begin here a new sermon or discourse delivered to Israel.
e אם גלעד און "an [non in] Galaad iniquitas?" Vatablus. f "En [in] Gileade [tantum] iniquitas?" Piscator. g "Num Gilead Aven?" Schmidt. h Apud Reland. Palestina Illustrata, tom. 2. l. 3. p. 783. i De Vita & Interitu Prophet. c. 6. & Paschal. Chronic. p. 161. apud Reland. ib. k Antiqu. l. 6. c. 4. sect. 9. l De locis Hebr. fol. 91. M.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Is there iniquity in Gilead? - The prophet asks the question, in order to answer it the more peremptorily. He raises the doubt, in order to crush it the more impressively. Is there “iniquity” in “Gilead?” Alas, there was nothing else. “Surely they are vanity,” or, strictly, “they have become merely vanity.” As he said before, “they become abominations like their love.” “For such as men make their idols, or conceive their God to be, such they become themselves. As then he who worships God with a pure heart, is made like unto God, so they who worship stocks and stones, or who make passions and lusts their idols, lose the mind of men and become ‘like the beasts which perish.’” “In Gilgal they have sacrificed oxen. Gilead” represents all the country on its side, the East of Jordan; “Gilgal,” all on its side, the West of Jordan. In both, God had signally shown forth His mercies; in both, they dishonored God, sacrificing to idols, and offering His creatures, as a gift to devils.
Yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field - Their altars are like the heaps of stones, from which men clear the plowed land, in order to fit it for cultivation, as numerous as profuse, as worthless, as desolate. “Their” altars they were, not God’s. They did, (as sinners do,) in the service of devils, what, had they done it to God, would have been accepted, rewarded, service. Full often they sacrificed oxen; they threw great state into their religion; they omitted nothing which should shed around it an empty show of worship. They multiplied their altars, their sins, their ruins; many altars over against His one altar; : “rude heaps of stones, in His sight; and such they should become, no one stone being left in order upon another.” In contrast with their sins and ingratitude, the prophet exhibits two pictures, the one, of the virtues of the patriarch whose name they bore, from whom was the beginning of their race; the other, of God’s love to them, in that beginning of their national existence, when God brought those who had been a body of slaves in Egypt, to be His own people.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 12:11. Iniquity in Gilead — Gilgal and Gilead are equally iniquitous, and equally idolatrous. Gilead, which was beyond Jordan, had already been brought under subjection by Tiglath-Pileser. Gilgal, which was on this side Jordan, shall share the same fate; because it is now as idolatrous as the other.
Their altars are as heaps — They occur everywhere. The whole land is given to idolatry.
