Hosea 5:1

Hear . . . O priests. This is a call to the priests and others, as Hosea 4:1-5 was also a call to Israel.

judgment is toward you = judgment is denounced upon you.

Mizpah. There were five places with this name: (1) Now Suf (Genesis 31:49 . Judges 10:17 ; Judges 11:11 , Judges 11:29 , Judges 11:34 ; Judges 20:1 , Judges 20:3 ; Judges 21:1 , Judges 21:6 , Judges 21:8 ). (2) In Moab (1 Samuel 22:3 ), not identified. (3) The land (or valley) of Moab, now el Bukei'a (Joshua 11:3 ). (4) In Judah, not identified (Joshua 15:38 ). (5) In Benjamin, not identified (Joshua 18:26 . Jdg 22:1-3 ; Judges 21:1 , Judges 21:5 , Jdg 21:8 ; 1 Samuel 7:5-16 ; 1 Samuel 10:17 . 1Ki 15:22 ; 2 Kings 25:23 , 2 Kings 25:25 ; 2 Chronicles 16:6 . Nehemiah 3:7 , Nehemiah 3:15 , Nehemiah 3:19 . Jeremiah 40:6-15 ; Jeremiah 41:1-16 , and in this passage, Hosea 5:1 ). Mizpah was a symbol of keeping apart, not of meeting again, as erroneously used to-day. Tabor is on the west of Jordan and not connected with Ephraim; but Tabor means a mound; so that the idolatrous altar may have been called Mizpah, while Tabor was the "mound" of Genesis 31:0 , both belonging to the same district. Hosea is said to have been buried at Mizpah.