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like chaff blown from a threshing floor "Chaff" refers to the husks separated from grain during the threshing process. It is lightweight and easily carried away by the wind. This imagery is used throughout Scripture to depict worthlessness and judgment (e.g., Psalm 1:4). The "threshing floor" was a place of separation and purification, and the ...
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Apr 23, 2024 · Hosea 13:3 also uses the threshing floor and chaff to describe humanity’s temporary nature: “Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears, like chaff swirling from a threshing floor, like smoke escaping through a window.”
Hosea 13:3. "Therefore will they be like the morning cloud, and like the dew that passes early away, as chaff blows away from the threshing-floor, and as smoke out of the window." Lâkhēn, therefore, viz., because they would not let their irrational idolatry go, they would quickly perish.
Mar 17, 2023 · According to Hosea, God’s way of dealing with wickedness in Israel was to remove the idolaters like chaff swirling away on the wind: “Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears, like chaff swirling from a threshing floor, like smoke escaping through a window” (Hosea 13:3).
The term chaff illustrates something that is trivial and worthless (Job 41:28). The threshing floor was a hard, level surface on which farmers would bring their grain to be crushed under the feet of the oxen or by a threshing sledge. The worthless residue on the floor would move quickly as the winds blew it away (chaff).
The threshing floor is symbolic of judgment in the Bible. Old Testament prophet Hosea prophesied that Israel would be "like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window" (Hosea 13:3).
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Jan 4, 2022 · Hosea prophesied that, because Israel has repeatedly turned from God to false idols, His judgment upon them would scatter them to the winds as the chaff from the threshing floor. “Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears, like chaff swirling from a threshing floor, like smoke escaping through a window” (Hosea 13:3).
