Hosea 5:5, Hosea 5:9 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 5:1-7

Here, I. All orders and degrees of men are cited to appear and answer to such things as shall be laid to their charge (Hos. 5:1): Hear you this, O priests! whether in holy orders (as those in Judah, and perhaps many in Israel too, for in the ten tribes there were divers cities of priests and Levites, who, it is probable, staid in their own lot after the revolt of the ten tribes and did so much of their office as might be done at a distance from the temple) or pretending holy orders, as the... read more

John Gill

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

And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face ,.... Or, "does" or "shall answer to his face" F8 ענה בפניו "respondebit", Montanus, Zanchius, Tarnovius, Rivet, Schmidt; "respondit", Cocceius. ; contradicts him, convicts him, and fills him with shame; the pride of his heart, and of his countenance, and which appears in all his actions, and which is open and manifest to all, shall stare him in the face, and confound him; even all the sinful actions done by him in a proud and... read more

Adam Clarke

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

The pride of Israel doth testify to his face - The effrontery with which they practise idolatry manifests, not only their insolence, but the deep depravity of their heart; but their pride and arrogance shall be humbled. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 5:5

Verse 5 The Prophet having condemned the Israelites on two accounts — for having departed from the true God — and for having obstinately refused every instruction, now adds, that God’s vengeance was nigh at hand. “Testify then shall the pride of Israel in his face”; that is, Israel shall find what it is thus to resist God and his Prophets. The Prophet no doubt applies the word, pride, to their contempt of instruction, because they were so swollen with vain confidence, as to think that wrong was... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 5:1-5

God here arraigns the sins of princes, priests, and people. Their degeneracy had been very great and their sins very grievous. Though there is no formal catalogue given of those sins, yet they are incidentally exhibited in the reproofs and rebukes which follow. I. ALL CLASSES ARE ADDRESSED BY THE DIVINE WORD . It is directed to the high and to the low alike; to the rich and to the poor; it speaks to every grade in society and every rank in life; there is none so high as... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 5:1-7

God and man. All classes are addressed by the prophet—priests, king, nobles, the whole house of Israel. The prophecy makes an advance. In the previous chapter judgment is threatened; in this it is announced as imminent. Judah also is menaced with punishment ( Hosea 5:5 , Hosea 5:10 , Hosea 5:12 ). I. GOD WILL ENSNARE THE ENSNARERS . ( Hosea 5:1 ) The dignitaries-priests, kings, and nobles—had led the people astray. They had put stumbling-blocks in their way. They had... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 5:1-10

National sin and punishment. The general strain of this chapter is similar to that of the preceding. "The judgment" ( Hosea 5:1 ) which has already been pronounced there is still continued. In Hosea 4:1-19 ; however, Judah was addressed as occupying a different position, morally and religiously, from Israel; whereas here the southern kingdom is represented as sharing in Israel's guilt and condemnation. It would appear, therefore, that when the warning of Hosea 4:15 was uttered,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 5:5

And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face. This may be understood (1) of Jehovah, who was Israel's glory, as we read in Amos 7:7 of "the excellency of Israel." This explanation suits at once the sense and the context. They knew not God, notwithstanding the special advantages they enjoyed for that knowledge; they had no liking to the knowledge of' Go,], they did not concern themselves about it; and now Jehovah, who should have been their excellency and glory, but who had been... read more

Albert Barnes

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

And the pride of Israel - Pride was from the first the leading sin of Ephraim. Together with Manasseh, (with whom they made, in some respects, one whole, as “the children of Joseph, Joshua 16:4; Joshua 17:14), they were nearly equal in number to Judah. When numbered in the wilderness, Judah had 74,600 fighting men, Ephraim and Manasseh together 72,700. They speak of themselves as a “great people, forasmuch as the Lord has blessed me hitherto” Joshua 17:14. God having chosen, out of them, the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 5:3-5

Hosea 5:3-5. I know Ephraim I am perfectly well acquainted with the actions of Ephraim, the head of the ten tribes; and Israel is not hid from me And the actions of the other nine tribes are no less known to me. Now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom Even now, at this time, thou goest on in thy idolatry, notwithstanding all my rebukes and exhortations. They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God They are so wholly inclined to idolatry, and it has got so fixed a root in... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 5:1-7

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

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 5:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 5:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 5:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 5:1-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 5:5

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

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 5:3-5

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