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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Hosea 4:1-10

The First Part of the Accusation v. 1. Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, Jehovah here both raising the accusation and pronouncing the sentence of punishment; for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, just cause for complaint, a matter which ought to be decided in a court of justice and the punishment dictated, because there is no truth, which makes intercourse between human beings dependable, nor mercy, neighborly compassion, nor knowledge of God in... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Hosea 4:1-19

PART SECONDJehovah pleads with Israel his Beloved but Unfaithful SpouseHosea 4-14___________FIRST DISCOURSEHosea 4-11I. THE ACCUSATIONHosea 4-7A. Against the People as a Whole on Account of their Idolatry and the Corruption of their Morals (Promoted by the Priests)Hosea 4:1-191 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel!For Jehovah has a difference with the inhabitants of the land,Because there is no fidelity and no goodnessAnd no knowledge of God in the land;2 (Only) cursing and lying,And... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Hosea 4:1-10

“Like People, like Priest” Hosea 4:1-10 This chapter contains a terrible indictment against the whole kingdom. There was neither truth nor mercy in the land, but swearing, lying, and adultery. Apart from the restraints of religion, such would be the condition of human society today. Even atheists have been known to remove from mining-camps, where there was no semblance of religion, to places within the sound of the church-bell. Notice in Hosea 4:3 how man’s sin seems to affect even the... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Hosea 4:1-19

In any attempt to analyze and tabulate the teaching in this second division of the Book it must be remembered that the prophetic utterances cannot be treated as verbatim reports. As they here appear, they are rather the gathering up of the notes or leading ideas of a long period of preaching. These notes fall into three distinct cycles, pollution and its cause, pollution and its punishment, and the love of Jehovah. In dealing with pollution and its cause the prophet first preferred a general... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 4:1-5

YHWH’s Indictment Of Israel And Warning Of The Consequences (Hosea 4:1-5 ). YHWH now charges ‘the people (children) of Israel’ with being bereft of all truth and compassion because of their lack of the knowledge of YHWH. In consequence they are breaching all the commandments, and engaging in widespread bloodshed, and the final result is that the whole land is suffering through severe drought. But they are in no position to lay charges against YHWH with respect to this, for they are... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 4:1-19

ISRAEL’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH IDOLS AND WITH ASSYRIA IS NOW DEPICTED AND WARNINGS GIVEN OF WHAT WILL BE THE CONSEQUENCE FOR THEM, AND THIS TOGETHER WITH A REMINDER THAT IF THEY RETURN TO HIM HE CAN PROVIDE ALL THAT BAAL PROVIDES AND MORE (Hosea 4:1 to Hosea 6:3 ). Having illustrated Israel’s position in terms of an adulterous and unfaithful wife, Hosea now charges Israel more directly with their sins, and warns them of what the consequences will be if they do not repent and turn back to YHWH.... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 4:4

‘Yet let no man strive, nor let any man reprove, for your people are as those who strive with the priest.’ But none of the people of Israel will have any cause to grumble, or disagree with YHWH’s actions, or reprove Him for what He has done, because they themselves are lawless. They are like ‘priest-challengers’. In Israel the priests were the final supreme court, and to openly challenge their final decision was seen as worthy of death (see Deuteronomy 17:12-13). It was to engage in anarchism.... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 4:1-19

Hosea 4:1-Psalms : . The Utter Corruption of the Nation Traced to Irreligion.— (The text of Hosea 4:15-Psalms : is hopelessly corrupt. Marti regards Hosea 4:3 as an insertion and Hosea 4:5-Joshua : a as foreign to their present context.) The complete lack of “ knowledge of God in the land” ( cf. Hosea 4:6, Hosea 5:4, Hosea 6:3) has, as its inevitable consequence, widespread moral corruption— yet let none reprove, for “ the people is as the priestling and the prophet as the priest” ( Hosea... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hosea 4:4

Yet; though judgments great and wasting are so sure, though the approaching calamities will lay all utterly waste. Let no man; none of private capacity, no priest or prophet, any more open their mouths to reason and debate with this people; let all know they are so obstinate and hardened it is to no purpose to warn any more. Strive; contend, as in causes pleaded before a judge; lay not the law before them, who have so often refused to hear it. Nor reprove; no more chide, or sharply inveigh... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hosea 4:1-5

CRITICAL NOTES.—Hosea 4:1. Controv.] = a legal action (cf. Micah 6:2; Joel 3:2), or ground of complaint with the ten tribes (Hosea 4:15). Truth] i.e. truthfulness in word or deed, no conscience nor uprightness (Proverbs 3:3; Jeremiah 3:4). Mercy] Affection, tenderness, and love; no compassion to the needy. Truth and love cannot be separated. “Truth cannot be sustained without mercy; and mercy without truth makes men negligent; so that the one ought to be mingled with the other.” No know.] which... read more

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Hosea 4:1-10

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Hosea 4:1-19

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Hosea 4:1-10

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Hosea 4:1-19

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 4:1-5

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 4:1-19

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 4:4

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 4:1-19

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hosea 4:4

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hosea 4:1-5

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