Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 5:9

9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke : among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be .

The whole Kingdom of the ten tribes, all sorts and ranks of men among them.

A desolation, i. e. most desolate, ut[illegible: 1 letter]terly cut off,

When Salmaneser shall come up with his Forces, besiege, sack and captivate all thy Cities, and Samaria with the rest, when by these Assyrians I shall rebuke, i. e. punish.

To the house of Israel openly, so that all might be informed.

By my Prophets I have foretold what should be, and by some judgments already executed▪ I have farther made known to them, they are sufficiently warned, and should have considered in time, and prevented their own Calamities.

What is irrevocably determin'd and ratified, and they shall never evade, nor ever overcome.