Hosea 9:3

They shall not dwell in the Lord's land,.... The land of Israel, or Canaan; which, though all the earth is the Lord's, was peculiarly his; which he had chosen for himself, and for this people; where…

They shall not dwell in the Lord’s land. The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof - Yet He had chosen the land of Canaan, there to place His people; there, above others, to work His miracles;…

But Ephraim shall return to Egypt - See on Hos 8:12 (note).

Here, I. The people of Israel are charged with spiritual adultery: O Israel! thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, Hos 9:1. Their covenant with God was a marriage-covenant, by which they were joined…

in the Lord's land -For I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel", Num 35:34. The expression originated in the popular belief that as, for example, Chemosh was the God of the Amorites, so Jehovah…