Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 13:10

10 I will be thy king : where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities ? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes ?

I would have been thy King to Govern and save thee but thou refusedst me in both, yet I will be thy King to punish thee, I will not lose my right, and honour by thy rebellious carriages against me, I will be a King and subdue such; or else 'tis a taunting question where is thy King, on whose Counsel, Wisdom, Power, and conduct thou hast relied, let him now save thee if he can, [illegible: 1 letter]o it runs smooth with the next words.

Or who is there, what wise, valiant, and successful Commander in any of thy Cities, that can deliver thee first out of my hand, and next out of the Assyrians hand.

Where are they? Thy Magistrates have sinned with thee, and shall be destroyed with thee, thy Rulers or inferiour Governours.

Whom thou didst importune and solicit, in a manner forcedst to meet, consult and resolve in seditious times who should be King next, when Treasons had taken away him that was.

Some refer this to their first asking a King, but 'tis better referred to the times either after Ieroboam the first. Or, to the times after Ieroboam the second between whose death and Hoshea's time, some say, there was an Interregnum of Twenty or near twenty years, during which a turbulent people as the Israelites were, would be frequent and earnest in all likelihood in moving for a King.

Necessary to assist the King.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word]. 10.3.