Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Hosea 9:3
return to Egypt—(See on Hosea 8:13). As in Hosea 11:5 it is said, "He shall not return into . . . Egypt." FAIRBAIRN thinks it is not the exact country that is meant, but the bondage state with which, from past experience, Egypt was identified in their minds. Assyria was to be a second Egypt to them. Deuteronomy 28:68, though threatening a return to Egypt, speaks (Deuteronomy 28:36) of their being brought to a nation which neither they nor their fathers had known, showing that it is not the literal Egypt, but a second Egypt-like bondage that is threatened.
eat unclean things in Assyria—reduced by necessity to eat meats pronounced unclean by the Mosaic law (Ezekiel 4:13). See II Kings 17:6.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Hosea 9:3:
Ezekiel 4:5
Ezekiel 4:13
Daniel 1:8
Hosea 7:16
Hosea 8:13
Hosea 11:5
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