Hosea 5:9-15 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 5:8-15

Here is, I. A loud alarm sounded, giving notice of judgments coming (Hos. 5:8): Blow you the cornet in Gibeah and in Ramah, two cities near together in the confines of the two kingdoms of Judah and Israel, Gibeah a frontier-town of the kingdom of Judah, Ramah of Israel; so that the warning is hereby sent into both kingdoms. ?Cry aloud at Beth-aven, or Bethel, which place seems to be already seized upon by the enemy, and therefore the trumpet is not sounded there, but you hear the outcries of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 5:9

Ephraim shall he desolate in the day of rebuke ,.... The country of the ten tribes shall be laid desolate, the inhabitants of them destroyed either by the sword, or famine, or pestilence, and the rest carried captive, as they were by Shalmaneser; and this was the day of the Lord's rebuke and chastisement of them: or of the reward of their sins, as the Targum, when the Lord punished them for them; and this is what the trumpet was to be blown for, in order to give notice of, or to call for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 5:10

The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound ,.... Or landmark, which to do was contrary to the law, Deuteronomy 19:14 ; and has always been reckoned a heinous sin among all nations, and is only done by such who have no regard to right and wrong, and by them secretly; and such were the kings, princes, and nobles of Judah; they secretly committed the grossest iniquities, yea, were abandoned to their vile lusts, and could not be contained within any bounds. The "caph" here used... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed, and broken in judgment ,.... Here the prophet again returns to the ten tribes, who were oppressed and broken, either by their own judgments, as the Targum; by the tyranny of their kings, and the injustice of their judges, who looked only for the mammon of unrighteousness; or by the judgment of their enemies, the Assyrians, the taxes they laid upon them, the devastations they made among them, and by whom, at last, they were carried captive; or by the judgments of God... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 5:12

Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth ,.... Which eats garments, penetrates into them, feeds on them privately, secretly, without any noise, and gradually and slowly consumes them; but at last utterly, that they are of no use and profit: this may signify the various things which befell the ten tribes in the reigns of Zachariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, and Pekah, which secretly and gradually weakened them; and the utter consumption of them in the times of Hoshea by Shalmaneser: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 5:13

When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound ,.... That their civil state were in a sickly condition, very languid, weak, feeble, and tottering, just upon the brink of ruin; see Isaiah 1:6 ; then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to King Jareb ; that is, the ten tribes, or the king of them, went and met the Assyrian king; and Judah the two tribes, or the king of them, sent ambassadors to King Jareb; which sense the order of the words, in connection with the preceding... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 5:14

For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah ,.... Being provoked by their above conduct and behaviour in seeking to others, and not to him, for help, he threatens to punish them in a more public and severe manner; not be to them only as a moth and rottenness, but as a lion, and as a young lion, creatures strong and fierce, that destroy and devour all that come into their hands, and from whom there is no deliverance: thus the Lord was both to Israel and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 5:15

I will go and return to my place ,.... Leave the countries of Israel and of Judah, where he had used to grant his gracious and spiritual presence unto his people, and watched over them, and cared for them, and bestowed many favours on them, and go up to heaven, the place of his more glorious presence, as the Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi, interpret it; and there, as it were, shut himself up, particularly with respect to these people, as if he had no more thought of them, or concern for them:... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 5:9

Among the tribes of Israel have I made known - They have got sufficient warning; it is their own fault that they have not taken it. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 5:10

Like them that remove the bound - As execrable as they who remove the land-mark. They have leaped over law's enclosure, and scaled all the walls of right; they have despised and broken all laws, human and Divine. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 5:8-15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 5:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 5:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 5:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 5:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 5:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 5:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 5:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 5:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 5:10

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