Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hosea 8:9
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9. gone . . . to Assyria —referring to Menahem's application for Pul's aid in establishing him on the throne (compare Hosea 5:13 ; Hosea 7:11 ). Menahem's name is read in the inscriptions in the southwest palace of Nimrod, as a tributary to the Assyrian king in his eighth year. The dynasty of Pul, or Phalluka, was supplanted at Nineveh by that of Tiglath-pileser, about 768 (or 760) B.C. Semiramis seems to have been Pul's wife, and to have withdrawn to Babylon in 768; and her son, Nabonassar, succeeding after a period of confusion, originated "the era of Nabonassar," 747 B.C. [G. V. SMITH]. Usually foreigners coming to Israel's land were said to "go up "; here it is the reverse, to intimate Israel's sunken state, and Assyria's superiority. wild ass —a figure of Israel's headstrong perversity in following her own bent ( Hosea 7:11- : ). alone by himself —characteristic of Israel in all ages: "lo, the people shall dwell alone" ( Hosea 7:11- : ; compare Hosea 7:11- : ). hired lovers —reversing the ordinary way, namely, that lovers should hire her ( Ezekiel 16:33 ; Ezekiel 16:34 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-10" class="com-number"
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