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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 4:5

Therefore shalt thou fall - The two parts of the verse fill up each other. “By day and by night shall they fall, people and prophets together.” Their calamities should come upon them successively, day and night. They should stumble by day, when there is least fear of stumbling John 11:9-10; and night should not by its darkness protect them. Evil should come “at noon-day” Jeremiah 15:8 upon them, seeing it, but unable to repel it; as Isaiah speaks of it as an aggravation of trouble, “thy land... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge - “My people are,” not, “is.” This accurately represents the Hebrew . The word “people” speaks of them as a whole; are, relates to the individuals of whom that whole is composed. Together, the words express the utter destruction of the whole, one and all. They are destroyed “for lack of knowledge,” literally, “of the knowledge,” i. e., the only knowledge, which in the creature is real knowledge, that knowledge, of the want of which he had before... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 4:7

As they were increased, so they sinned against Me - The “increase” may be, either in actual number or in wealth, power or dignity. The text includes both. In both kinds of increase, the bad abuse God’s gifts against Himself, and take occasion of them to offend Him. The more they were increased in number, the more there were to sin, the more they were who sinned. God promised to make Abraham’s seed, “as the stars of heaven.” They were to shine in the world through the light of the law, and the... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 4:8

They eat up the sin of My people - The priests made a gain of the sins of the people, lived upon them and by them, conniving at or upholding the idolatries of the people, partaking in their idol-sacrifices and idolatrous rites, which, as involving the desertion of God, were “the sin of the people,” and the root of all their other sins. This the priests did knowingly. True or false, apostate or irregularly appointed, they knew that there was no truth in the golden calves; but they withheld the... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 4:9

And there shall be like people, like priest - Priest and people were alike in sin. Yea they are wont, if bad, to foment each other’s sin. The bad priest copies the sins which he should reprove, and excuses himself by the frailty of our common nature. The people, acutely enough, detect the worldliness or self-indulgence of the priest, and shelter themselves under his example. Their defense stands good before people; but what before God? Alike in sin, priest and people should be alike in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 4:4-5

Hosea 4:4-5. Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another Bishop Horsley translates this clause, By no means let any one expostulate, nor let any one reprove; adding, by way of paraphrase, “For all expostulation and reproof will be lost upon this people, such are their stubbornness anal obstinacy. For my people are as they that strive ( Are exactly like those who will contend, Horsley) with the priest “To contend with the priest, the authorized interpreter of the law, and the typical... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 4:6

Hosea 4:6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge The ignorance of the nature, necessity, and excellence of true religion, which prevailed among the Jews and Israelites, was one principal cause of those sins which drew down such heavy judgments upon them. Because thou hast rejected knowledge That is, wouldest not use the means of knowledge which thou hadst. “But this lack of knowledge in the people was, in a great measure, owing to the want of that constant instruction which they... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 4:7

Hosea 4:7. As they were increased, so they sinned Or, The more they were increased, the more they sinned against me The greater the favours were which I heaped upon them, and the more I multiplied them, the more presumptuously they sinned against me: see Hosea 13:6. Instead of, as they were increased, Bishop Horsley reads, In proportion as they were magnified, (a translation the Hebrew word, כרבם , will well bear,) “the priesthood,” he observes, “among the Jews was, by God’s... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 4:8-11

Hosea 4:8-11. They eat up the sin of my people These priests, mentioned Hosea 4:6, live upon the sin-offerings of the people; and are so far from restraining them, that they take delight in seeing them commit iniquity, because the more they sin, the greater is the number of their sin-offerings, which are the priests’ portions. Bishop Horsley translates the verse, “Every one of them, while they eat the sin-offerings of my people, sets his own heart upon the crime;” that is, while they... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hosea 4:1-19

4:1-8:14 ISRAEL’S MORAL CORRUPTIONHosea now turns from his personal experiences to the conditions in Israel that they illustrated. There appears to be little chronological order or logical development in this section. It consists of collections of numerous short messages that Hosea apparently delivered on various occasions over a number of years.Corrupt religion; corrupt people (4:1-5:7)The people have no knowledge of God or his law, and therefore they are unfaithful to him and deceitful in... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 4:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 4:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 4:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 4:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 4:9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 4:4-5

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 4:6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 4:7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 4:8-11

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hosea 4:1-19

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