Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 9:15

15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal : for there I hated them : for the wickedness of their doings , I will drive them out of mine house , I will love them no more : all their princes are revolters.

The chief, or summ, or beginning, it is not to be understood exclusive to other places, for every City was full, there was all kind of sin elsewhere.

In rejecting God and his Government; here Saul was made King, and Samuel was rejected. Here they begun to turn the remarkable Blessings God gave them in this place into a Superstitious and Hyp[illegible: 4 letters]tical Veneration of the place, and began their Will Wors[illegible: 3 letters] ▪ and Idolatries: If all the Impiety of Ephraim may be reduced to their horrible degeneracy and Corruption in State and Church, here it began, and so all was here.

Where Israel first pitched their Tents after they passed over Iordan, &c. Vid. cap. 15. let, [illegible: 1 letter].

As there they began to sin so notoriously, there also I began to shew that I hated them

for the continued wickedness which from their first beginning there they have propagated to other places, and increased dayly, and with obstinacy.

As men thrust out of their houses one that is altogether unworthy to dwell longer with them.

By a Synechdoche, the House for Land, or out of their House, which tho' theirs for use, was yet Gods propriety, and when God casts Ephraim out of his House, he sends him into Captivity.

I will cease to express any more love to thee, it is a Meiosis, I will add no more to love them, i. e. I will add to hate them, and punish them, I will leave them in the hand, and under the fury of their Enemies in a strange Land.

Their Kings, Rulers both Civil and Ecclesiastical.

Are and have been Idolaters ever since the Division in Ieroboam Son of Nebat, not one of their Kings but were Idolaters, and obstinate, and perverse in it also.

Marginal references: chap. 4.15. and 12.11.; Isa. 1.23.