3. return to Egypt —(See on :- ). As in Hosea 11:5 it is said, "He shall not return into . . . Egypt." FAIRBAIRN thinks it is not the exact country that is meant, but the bondage state with which, from past experience, Egypt was identified in their minds. Assyria was to be a second Egypt to them. Hosea 11:5- : , though threatening a return to Egypt, speaks ( Hosea 11:5- : ) of their being brought to a nation which neither they nor their fathers had known, showing that it is not the literal Egypt, but a second Egypt-like bondage that is threatened. eat unclean things in Assyria —reduced by necessity to eat meats pronounced unclean by the Mosaic law ( Ezekiel 4:13 ). See 2 Kings 17:6 . return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-4" class="com-number"
Pericope (part_of)
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pericope/per-hos-9-001
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Source
source-manifest/jfb— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)- evidence_grade: T_theological