호세아 6:7-11 KRV

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 6:8

Divine institutions corrupted. "Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood." It is supposed that Gilead here means Ramoth-gilead, the metropolis of the mountainous region beyond Jordan and south of the fiver Jabbok, known by the name of Gilead ( Joshua 21:28 ; 1 Kings 6:18 ). It was here that Jacob and Laban entered into a sacred covenant with each other. It was once a very sacred place; it was one of the celebrated cities of refuge ( Deuteronomy 20:1-20 ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 6:8-9

In these two verses the prophet adduces proof of that faithlessness with which he had just charged Israel. Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. The latter clause is more literally rendered, foot-printed or foot-tracked from blood . Two things require consideration here—the place and its pollution. Gilead is sometimes a mountain range, and sometimes the mountainous region east of the Jordan; it has Bashan on the north, the Arabian plateau on the east,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 6:10

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. The house of Israel comprises (1) the ten tribes of the northern kingdom, according to some; it seems more correct (2) to understand it of the whole nation, including both the northern and southern kingdoms, in which case the remainder of the verse relates to the northern kingdom of the ten tribes, and the succeeding verse to the southern kingdom of the two tribes. Further, Israel... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 6:11

Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee. The subject of shath is the indeterminate third person, like the French on, and our "they" or "one." The third person singular masculine, the third person plural, the second person singular masculine, and the passive voice are all used in this way. So here it is: "One hath appointed (set) a harvest for thee," or "a harvest is appointed for thee." The harvest is either recompense or retribution, and thus it is either good or evil, for as a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 6:11

Naturalness of retribution. "Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee." Dr. Henderson ends the chapter with this clause and begins the next chapter with the latter clause of this verse. Some regard the harvest here as used in a good sense, as pointing to the ingathering of the people of God. But such a view is scarcely admissible. It evidently refers to punishment, and some suppose to that terrible punishment that fell on Judah as recorded in 2 Chronicles 26:6-9 . Divine punishment... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 6:7

But they like men - Or (better as in the E. M) “like Adam, have transgressed the covenant.” As Adam our first parent, in Paradise, not out of any pressure, but wantonly, through self-will and pride, broke the covenant of God, eating the forbidden fruit, and then defended himself in his sin against God, casting the blame upon the woman: so these, in the good land which God had given them, “that they should” therein “keep His covenant and observe His laws” Psalms 105:44, wantonly and petulantly... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 6:8

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity - If we regard “Gilead,” (as it elsewhere is,) as the country beyond Jordan, where the two tribes and a half dwelt, this will mean that the whole land was banded in one, as one city of evil-doers. It had an unity, but of evil. As the whole world has been pictured as divided between “the city of God” and the city of the devil, consisting respectively of the children of God and the children of the devil; so the whole of Gilead may be represented as one... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 6:9

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent - Or (more probably) “in the way to Shechem.” Shechem too was a “city of refuge” John 20:7, and so also a city of Levites and priests John 21:21. It was an important city. For there Joshua assembled all Israel for his last address to them, and made a covenant with them John 24:1, 25. There, Rehoboam came to be accepted by Israel as their king 1 Kings 12:1, and was rejected by them. There Jeroboam... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 6:10

I have seen a horrible thing - Literally, “what would make one shudder.” God had seen it; therefore man could not deny it. In the sight of God, and amid the sense of His presence, all excuses fail.In the house of Israel - o: “For what more horrible, more amazing than that this happened, not in any ordinary nation but “in the house of Israel,” in the people of God, in the portion of the Lord, as Moses said, “the Lord’s portion is His people, Jacob is the lot of His inheritance?” In another... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 6:11

Also, O Judah, He hath set a harvest for thee, when I returned - (rather, when I return) the captivity of My people.The “harvest” may be either for good or for bad. If the harvest is spoken of, as bestowed upon the people, then, as being of chief moment for preserving the life of the body, it is a symbol of all manner of good, temporal or spiritual, bestowed by God. If the people is spoken of, as themselves being the harvest which is ripe and ready to be cut down, then it is a symbol of their... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 6:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 6:8-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 6:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 6:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 6:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 6:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 6:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 6:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 6:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 6:11

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