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Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 2:11

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Hosea2:11

11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease , her feast days , her new-moons , and her sabbaths , and all her solemn feasts .

The jollity of Israel was certainly dampt, when Tiglath Pilneser took Sion, and other Cities, and captivated Naphthali, 2 Kin. 15.29. which was some, yet but few years after this Prophesie: But sure all their joy ceased about ten or twelve years after, when Samaria was taken, and Hoshea, and all Israel made Captives, so the threat was executed in this sense; But the Prophet speaks (as by what follows appeareth) of their sacred or Religious joyes, which God will abolish. He did not set them up, but he will pull them down.

Though Apostate Israel was fallen to Idolatry, and renounced the true Worship of God, yet by this Text it appears they retain'd many of the rites and ceremonies that were used by the Iews, or else set up others like them, as their solemn Feast at setting up the Calves at Dan and Bethel, in Ieroboams time.

These were dayes of greater Sacrifices. Numb. 28.11. and greater feasting, 1 Sam▪ 20.5.

Their weekly Sabbaths.

The three Annual Feasts of Tabernacles, weeks, and Passeover, or others with them, all which should cease when these people were carried captive, as they were by Salmaneser.

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