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Selected Verse: Hosea 9:6 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ho 9:6 |
Strong Concordance |
For, lo, they are gone [01980] because of destruction [07701]: Egypt [04714] shall gather them up [06908], Memphis [04644] shall bury [06912] them: the pleasant [04261] places for their silver [03701], nettles [07057] shall possess [03423] them: thorns [02336] shall be in their tabernacles [0168]. |
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King James |
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. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
because of destruction--to escape from the devastation of their country.
Egypt shall gather them up--that is, into its sepulchres (Jer 8:2; Eze 29:5). Instead of returning to Palestine, they should die in Egypt.
Memphis--famed as a necropolis.
the pleasant places for their silver--that is, their desired treasuries for their money. Or, "whatever precious thing they have of silver" [MAURER].
nettles--the sign of desolation (Isa 34:13). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
For lo, they are gone because of destruction - They had fled, for fear of destruction, to destruction. For fear of the destruction from Assyria, they were fled away and gone to Egypt, hoping, doubtless, to find there some temporary refuge, until the Assyrian invasion should have swept by. But, as befalls those who flee from God, they fell into more certain destruction.
Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them - They had fled singly, in making their escape from the Assyrian. Egypt shall receive them, and shall gather them together, but only to one common burial, so that none should escape. So Jeremiah says, "They shall not be gathered nor buried" Jer 8:2; and Ezekiel, "Thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered" Eze 29:5. "Memphis" is the Greek name for the Egyptian "Mamphta," whence the Hebrew "Moph" ; or "Manuph," whence the Hebrew "Noph" (Isa 19:13; Jer 2:16; Jer 44:1; Jer 46:14; Eze 30:13 ff). It was at this time the capital of Egypt, whose idols God threatens . Its name, "the dwelling of Phta," the Greek Vulcan, marked it, as a seat of idolatry; and in it was the celebrated court of Apis , the original of Jeroboam's calf. There in the home of the idol for whom they forsook their God, they should be gathered to burial. It was reputed to be the burial-place of Osiris, and hence, was a favorite burial-place of the Egyptians. It once embraced a circuit of almost 19 miles , with magnificent buildings; it declined after the building of Alexandria; its very ruins gradually perished, after Cairo rose in its neighborhood.
The pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them - The English margin gives the same sense in different words; "their silver shall be desired; (as Obadiah saith, "his hidden treasures were searched out) nettles shall inherit them" Oba 1:6. In either way, it is a picture of utter desolation. The long rank grass or the nettle, waving amid man's habitations, looks all the sadder, as betokening that man once was there, and is gone. The desolate house looks like the grave of the departed. According to either rendering, the silver which they once had treasured, was gone. As they had "inherited" and "driven" out (the word is one) the nations, whose land God had given them, so now nettles and thorns should "inherit them." These should be the only tenants of their treasure-houses and their dwellings. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| They are gone - Some are already withdrawn from the desolation that cometh. Egypt - In Egypt they hope to be quiet and survive these desolations, but they shall die in Egypt. The pleasant places - Their beautiful houses built for keeping their wealth in. Nettles - Shall be ruined, and lie in rubbish, 'till nettles grow in them. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
For, lo, they are gone - Many of them fled to Egypt to avoid the destruction; but they went there only to die.
Memphis - Now Cairo, or Kahira, found them graves.
The pleasant places for their silver - The fine estates or villas which they had purchased by their money, being now neglected and uninhabited, are covered with nettles; and even in their tabernacles, thorns and brambles of different kinds grow. These are the fullest marks of utter desolation. |
13 And thorns [05518] shall come up [05927] in her palaces [0759], nettles [07057] and brambles [02336] in the fortresses [04013] thereof: and it shall be an habitation [05116] of dragons [08577], and a court [02681] for owls [01323] [03284].
5 And I will leave [05203] thee thrown into the wilderness [04057], thee and all the fish [01710] of thy rivers [02975]: thou shalt fall [05307] upon the open [06440] fields [07704]; thou shalt not be brought together [0622], nor gathered [06908]: I have given [05414] thee for meat [0402] to the beasts [02416] of the field [0776] and to the fowls [05775] of the heaven [08064].
2 And they shall spread [07849] them before the sun [08121], and the moon [03394], and all the host [06635] of heaven [08064], whom they have loved [0157], and whom they have served [05647], and after [0310] whom they have walked [01980], and whom they have sought [01875], and whom they have worshipped [07812]: they shall not be gathered [0622], nor be buried [06912]; they shall be for dung [01828] upon the face [06440] of the earth [0127].
6 How are the things of Esau [06215] searched out [02664] ! how are his hidden [04710] things sought up [01158] !
13 Thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; I will also destroy [06] the idols [01544], and I will cause their images [0457] to cease [07673] out of Noph [05297]; and there shall be no more a prince [05387] of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714]: and I will put [05414] a fear [03374] in the land [0776] of Egypt [04714].
14 Declare [05046] ye in Egypt [04714], and publish [08085] in Migdol [04024], and publish [08085] in Noph [05297] and in Tahpanhes [08471]: say [0559] ye, Stand fast [03320], and prepare [03559] thee; for the sword [02719] shall devour [0398] round about [05439] thee.
1 The word [01697] that came to Jeremiah [03414] concerning all the Jews [03064] which dwell [03427] in the land [0776] of Egypt [04714], which dwell [03427] at Migdol [04024], and at Tahpanhes [08471], and at Noph [05297], and in the country [0776] of Pathros [06624], saying [0559],
16 Also the children [01121] of Noph [05297] and Tahapanes [08471] have broken [07462] the crown of thy head [06936].
13 The princes [08269] of Zoan [06814] are become fools [02973], the princes [08269] of Noph [05297] are deceived [05377]; they have also seduced [08582] Egypt [04714], even they that are the stay [06438] of the tribes [07626] thereof.
5 And I will leave [05203] thee thrown into the wilderness [04057], thee and all the fish [01710] of thy rivers [02975]: thou shalt fall [05307] upon the open [06440] fields [07704]; thou shalt not be brought together [0622], nor gathered [06908]: I have given [05414] thee for meat [0402] to the beasts [02416] of the field [0776] and to the fowls [05775] of the heaven [08064].
2 And they shall spread [07849] them before the sun [08121], and the moon [03394], and all the host [06635] of heaven [08064], whom they have loved [0157], and whom they have served [05647], and after [0310] whom they have walked [01980], and whom they have sought [01875], and whom they have worshipped [07812]: they shall not be gathered [0622], nor be buried [06912]; they shall be for dung [01828] upon the face [06440] of the earth [0127].