Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hosea 12:7

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7. merchant —a play on the double sense of the Hebrew, "Canaan," that is, a Canaanite and a "merchant" :- : "Thy birth is . . . of Canaan." They who naturally were descendants of pious Jacob had become virtually Canaanites, who were proverbial as cheating merchants (compare Isaiah 23:11 , Margin ), the greatest reproach to Israel, who despised Canaan. The Phoelignicians called themselves Canaanites or merchants ( Isaiah 23:8 ). oppress — open violence: as the "balances of deceit" imply fraud. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-8" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-hos-12-002

절 (explains)

bible-text/hos-12-7

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological