Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 3:4

4 For the children of Israel shall abide many dayes without a king , and without a prince , and without a sacrifice , and without an image , and without an ephod , and without Teraphim .

Now the parable is unfolded, and made plain, it shall be with Israel much like as with such a Woman, They and She guilty of Adultery, both punisht with a Divorce, both punisht long with such afflicted State, both made Slaves, kept hardly, and valued meanly, yet in mercy at last pardon'd, reaccepted, and prefer'd, but this after long time of Probation. How long we cannot tell, nor list to dispute whether 70 years of Babylons Captivity, or whether these Seventy, and the One Hundred and Thirty years of Ten Tribes Captivity before the Two Tribes went Captives, i. e. Two Hundred years; or whether till Messiah's coming, or the general and last Conversion of th[illegible: 1 letter] Iews, long 'twas to be no doubt.

None of their own Royal Line shall fit on the Throne, and Rule them, but Foreigners, Enemies, and they that had conquer'd them, should be Kings over them. So the Kingdom ceased as chap. 1.4.

The Conquering Kings will not out of the Iews make their chief Officers to Rule the Iews, but Strangers shall be Princes and Governours over them.

Either right, and according to Law; (these Sacrifices they had long since cast off) or Idolatrous ones which they would choose.

They could carry none of their Images with them, and the Assyrians would not let them make new ones.

No Priest as well as no Ephod.

Idolatrous Images kept in their private Houses to Worship and Consult with like the Roman Lares and Penates, Houshold Gods; in one word, such should be the State of these Captives: They should have nothing of their own either in Kingdom and Civil Affairs, or in Church and Religion, but be wholly under the Power and Arbitrary wills of their Conquering Enemies.

Marginal references: chap. 10.3.; Heb. a standing, or, statue[illegible: 1 letter]