Verse Hosea 6:10. _I HAVE SEEN A HORRIBLE THING_] That is, the idolatry that prevailed in Israel to such a degree that the whole land was defiled....
I HAVE SEEN A HORRIBLE THING - Literally, “what would make one shudder.” God had seen it; therefore man could not deny it. In the sight of God, and amid the sense of His presence, all excuses fail. IN...
CHAPTER 6:4-11 Divine Mourning over Ephraim and Judah _ 1. What shall I do to thee? (Hosea 6:4) _ 2. Their transgression (Hosea 6:7) Hosea 6:4. The Lord grieves and mourns over the condition of the...
HOSEA 6:4 TO HOSEA 7:2. ISRAEL'S MORAL CONDITION HOPELESSLY CORRUPT. The shallow expressions of loyalty by the fickle people mean nothing, and cannot avert Yahweh's inevitable judgment. He looks for r...
WHOREDOM. idolatry. See note on Hosea 1:2....
Jehovah is still the speaker. From his heavenly -place" he points indignantly (as Hosea 6:7) to the abominations practised -there", i.e. in the whole land of Israel, for even Judah has not escaped the...
_RETURNING THE COVENANT OF GOD'S PEOPLE HOSEA 6:9-11:_ Both Israel and Judah had become very corrupt. Instead of helping the hurting they had become a “troop of robbers” waiting to harm some individua...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDEHER INCONSTANCY TEXT: Hosea 6:1-11 1 Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days wil...
THE SHALLOWNESS OF ISRAEL'S REPENTANCE Hosea now represents the people as counselling one another to repentance in presence of the impending danger; and goes on to point out the futility of a hurried...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 6 THE PEOPLE ARE NOT TRUE TO GOD V1 ‘Come, let us return to the *Lord. He has torn us to pieces, but he will bring us health....
HOUSE OF ISRAEL. — This phrase means Ephraim and Judah subsequently discriminated. The “horrible thing” refers to polluting idolatry. This peculiar word occurs again in Jeremiah. According to the punc...
בְּ בֵית֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל רָאִ֖יתִי _שַׁעֲרֽוּרִיָּ֑ה_† שָׁ֚ם זְנ֣וּ
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
“LET US RETURN UNTO THE LORD” Hosea 6:1-11 How full Scripture is of tender invitations: _Come, and let us return!_ This opening verse is closely connected with Hosea 5:15. The hand that smote was th...
Here we have the prophet's appeal in consequence of the judgment threatened. It was first a message calling the people to return to Jehovah. It was based on the certainty of divine pity; and a promise...
We find here the same melancholy account, as in the other parts of this prophecy; the Lord complaining of his people's apostacy; Gilead and the house of Israel; Ephraim and Judah; all alike transgress...
The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...
VII. HOSEA 6:1-2 (NASB) "COME, LET US RETURN TO THE LORD. FOR HE HAS TORN [US,] BUT HE WILL HEAL US; HE HAS WOUNDED [US,] BUT HE WILL BANDAGE US. 2 "HE WILL REVIVE US AFTER TWO DAYS; HE WILL RAISE U...
Here God declares that he is the fit judge to take cognizance of the vices of Israel; and this he does, that he might cut off the handle of vain excuses, which hypocrites often adduce when they are re...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7. Chapter 6 calls forth a touching address from the prophet, in which he entreats the people to return to Jehovah. Faith has always this resource, beca...
I HAVE SEEN AN HORRIBLE THING IN THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL,.... Idolatry, the calves set up at Dan and Bethel, which God saw with abhorrence and detestation; or the prophet saw it, and it made his hair stan...
_I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there [is] the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled._ Ver. 10. _I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel_] Now a very den of thiev...
_I have seen a horrible thing_ Such an apostacy from God as cannot be mentioned without horror. _There is the whoredom of Ephraim _ Or rather, _there_, namely, in the house of Israel, BY _the whoredom...
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel, abominable things happening in the northern kingdom; THERE IS THE WHOREDOM OF EPHRAIM, its shameful idolatry; ISRAEL IS DEFILED, namely, as the re...
AN EARNEST INVITATION AND A FURTHER ADMONITION. Having stated his threat in a most uncompromising form, the prophet adds a powerful appeal to the people of his nation to heed the warning of the Lord...
4-11 Sometimes Israel and Judah seemed disposed to repent under their sufferings, but their goodness vanished like the empty morning cloud, and the early dew, and they were as vile as ever. Therefore...
I HAVE SEEN: it may be understood of the prophet speaking what he had seen; or of God, who seeth now, and hath seen, AN HORRIBLE THING, a very horrible thing, as some observe from the word, in the hou...
Hosea 6:10 seen H7200 (H8804) thing H8186 house H1004 Israel H3478 harlotry H2184 Ephraim H669 Israel H3478 defiled...
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, So the company of priests murder in the way towards Shechem, Yes, they have committed mischief (or ‘a heinous crime'), In the house of Israel I have seen a...
CONTENTS: The voice of the remnant of Israel in the last days. Jehovah's response. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The consideration of God's judgments upon us because of sin should awaken us to return...
Hosea 6:2. _After two days will he revive us._ The Chaldaic paraphrase gives a double acceptation to this text, that the Messiah should raise the dead, and that he should also revive and heal the chur...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 6:8. GILEAD] A city of refuge, the residence of priests, and the centre or metropolis of the hilly region beyond Jordan, yet polluted and the leader of ruin! HOSEA 6:9.] Even p...
EXPOSITION HOSEA 6:1 These three verses have, by the division into chapters, been violently and improperly torn from the preceding chapter, to which they naturally belong. Their connection with the f...
And they will say, Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up (Hsa Hosea 6:1). This is the prayer that they will be offerin...
1 Kings 12:8; 1 Kings 15:30; 2 Kings 17:7; Ezekiel 23:5; Hosea 4:11;...
The whoredom — Idolatry. Of Ephraim — Which was brought in by an Ephraimite, by Jeroboam, two hundred years ago, and is there still. Israel is defiled — It hath overspread all Israel....