ホセア書 4:4 JC

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 4:1-5

Here is, I. The court set, and both attendance and attention demanded: ?Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel, for to you is the word of this conviction sent, whether you will hear or whether you will forbear.? Whom may God expect to give him a fair hearing, and take from him a fair warning, but the children of Israel, his own professing people? Yea, they will be ready enough to hear when God speaks comfortably to them; but are they willing to hear when he has a controversy with... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 4:4

Yet, let no man strive, nor reprove another ,.... Or rather, "let no man strive, nor any man reprove us" F17 ואל יוכה איש "et ne reprehendito quisquam, scil. nos", Schmidt. ; and are either the words of the people, forbidding the prophet, or any other man, to contend with them, or reprove them for their sins, though guilty of so many, and their land in so much danger on that account: so the Targum, "but yet they say, let not the scribe teach, nor the prophet reprove:' or... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 4:4

Yet let no man strive - Or, no man contendeth. All these evils stalk abroad unreproved, for all are guilty. None can say, "Let me pluck the mote out of thy eye," because he knows that "there is a beam in his own." For thy people are - The people and the priest are alike rebels against the Lord; the priests having become idolaters, as well as the people. Bp. Newcome renders this clause, "And as is the provocation of the priest, so is that of my people." The whole clause in the original is... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 4:4

Verse 4 The Prophet here deplores the extreme wickedness of the people, that they would bear no admonitions, like those who, being past hope, reject every advice, admit no physicians, and dislike all remedies: and it is a proof of irreclaimable wickedness, when men close their ears and harden their hearts against all salutary counsels. Hence the Prophet intimates, that, together with their great and many corruptions, there was such waywardness, that no one dared to reprove the public vices. He... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 4:1-5

Israel's sin and consequent suffering. The prophet is Jehovah's mouth-piece, and as such he calls on his fellow-men to hear the word of the Lord; he thus speaks by commission and with authority. Having thus claimed an attentive hearing in his Master's Name, he denounces Israel's sins, and declares the judgments that await them. In this discharge of his duty the prophet has a twofold object in view. By his timely and truthful warning he hopes to reclaim some, at least, of his countrymen, and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 4:1-5

The Lord's lawsuit. The introduction to the Book of Hoses consists of a symbolical narrative, contained in Hosea 1-3. The body of the book is occupied with discourses, which are full of mingled reproaches, threatenings, and promises. Hosea 4:1-19 . evidently reflects the condition of the nation during the interregnum which followed the death of Jeroboam II . The key-word of the first strophe ( Hosea 4:1-5 ) is the word "controversy" ( Hosea 4:1 ), used in the sense of a legal... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 4:1-5

The Lord's controversy. God had a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. The essential part of the indictment was that they had forsaken him . "There is no knowledge of God in the land." Hence— I. A FEARFUL OVERFLOWING OF IMMORALITY . 1. With the knowledge of God there had departed also "truth and mercy" ( Hosea 4:1 ). "Truth" and "mercy," or "kindness," are root-principles of morals. The subversion of them is the subversion of morality in its foundations. These... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 4:3-5

These verses relate, with much particularity, the sufferings consequent on sins, especially such as are specified in the preceding verses. The montaging of the land mentioned in Hosea 4:3 may be understood either figuratively or literally. If in the former way, there are many Scripture parallels which represent nature in full accord with human feelings, sympathizing with man, now in joy, again in sorrow; for example: "The little hills rejoice on every side;" the valleys "shout for joy,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 4:3-5

A terrible deprivation. "Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest. Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother." These words lead us to consider a lamentable... read more

Albert Barnes

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

Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another - Literally, “Only man let him, not strive, and let not man reprove.” God had taken the controversy with His people into His own hands; the Lord, He said , “hath a controversy (rib) with the inhabitants of the land” Hosea 4:1. Here He forbids man to intermeddle; man let him not strive. He again uses the same word . The people were obstinate and would not hear; warning and reproof, being neglected, only aggravated their guilt: so God bids man to cease... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 4:1-5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 4:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 4:4

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 4:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 4:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 4:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 4:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 4:3-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 4:3-5

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

Group of Brands