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Verse Hosea 6:5. _THEREFORE HAVE I HEWED_ THEM _BY THE PROPHETS_] I
have sent my prophets to testify against their fickleness. They have
smitten them with the most solemn and awful threatenings; they...
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THEREFORE HAVE I HEWED THEM BY THE PROPHETS - Since they despised
God’s gentler warnings and measures, He used severer. “He hewed”
them, He says, as men hew stones out of the quarry, and with hard
blo...
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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...
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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...
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THEREFORE HAVE. HEWED THEM, &C.. This is why. hewed them. Hebrew
idiom, by which the declaration that. thing should be done is spoken
of the personal act of doing it. See note on Jeremiah 1:18. and
co...
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Similar fitful repentances have already forced Jehovah to interpose,
like a severe but kind physician who will cut out the diseased part
rather than suffer the evil to spread.
_hewed them by the proph...
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THEREFORE HAVE I HEWED THEM— Or, _Therefore have I cut them down._
Houbigant reads, _Certainly I have done what it pleased me to your
prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth; and light sh...
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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...
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6:5 light. (a-26) Or 'and thy judgments are [as] a light that goeth
forth '...
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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...
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HEWED.. SLAIN THEM] The prophets are here spoken of as themselves
doing what their language threatened. THY JUDGMENTS.. FORTH] It is
better to read with LXX, 'My judgment goeth forth as the light.' Th...
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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....
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The LXX. render, _Therefore I have mowed down their prophets;_ but
this would destroy the parallelism, in which “prophets” correspond
to “words of my mouth.” The sense is, I have slain them by the
ann...
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עַל ־כֵּ֗ן חָצַ֨בְתִּי֙ בַּ †
נְּבִיאִ֔ים הֲרַגְתִּ֖ים...
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THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL
Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
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“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...
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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...
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Therefore have I (d) hewed [them] by the prophets; I have slain them
by the words of my mouth: and thy (e) judgments [are as] the light
[that] goeth forth.
(d) I have still laboured by my prophets, a...
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Mouth. I have ordered my prophets to denounce death unto them, and to
treat them roughly, like a piece of marble designed for a statue.
Septuagint, &c., "I have slain thy prophets," &c., by Elias, Jeh...
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Probably the hewing by the words of the Prophets, hath a reference to
the powerful effects of preaching. We have a striking instance: Acts
7:51. And the Lord compares his word to a fire, and to an ham...
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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...
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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...
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God shows here, by his Prophet, that he was constrained by urgent
necessity to deal sharply and roughly with the people. Nothing, we
know, is more pleasing to God than to treat us kindly; for there is...
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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...
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THEREFORE HAVE I HEWED [THEM] BY THE PROPHETS; I HAVE SLAIN THEM BY
THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH,.... Sharply reproved them for their sins by the
prophets, who were as lapidaries that cut stone, or us hewers...
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Therefore have I hewed [them] by the prophets; I have slain them by
the words of my mouth: and thy judgments [are as] the light [that]
goeth forth.
Ver. 5. _Therefore have I hewed them by my prophets...
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_Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets_ Severely reproved and
threatened them; or _cut them off_, as the word, חצבתי, may be
properly rendered: that is, I have denounced against them great
destr...
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Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets, endeavoring to give them
the right shape; I HAVE SLAIN THEM BY THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH, in most
emphatic rebukes; AND THY JUDGMENTS ARE AS THE LIGHT THAT GOE...
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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...
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AND THY JUDGMENTS ARE AS:
Or, that thy judgments might be, etc....
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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...
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THEREFORE; because I would do for you whatever might be done, because
I would cure you of your obstinacy and hypocrisy, and make you upright
and constant. I have hewed them; I have severely, continual...
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Hosea 6:5 hewn H2672 (H8804) prophets H5030 slain H2026 (H8804) words
H561 mouth H6310 judgments H4941 light...
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YHWH MAKES CLEAR HIS CURRENT VIEW OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH BECAUSE OF THEIR
SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY (HOSEA 6:4).
Hosea, in words of YHWH, now contrasts his future glowing picture of
Israel's restoration with...
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‘Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets,
I have slain them by the words of my mouth.'
It was because of this shallowness revealed in their attitudes that
God had in the past sent His prophets (M...
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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...
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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...
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HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 6:5 MY JUDGMENT GOES FORTH AS THE LIGHT. God’s
light exposes Israel’s idolatry.
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
HOSEA 6:4.] Begins a bitter complaint. WHAT] Both in mercy and
judgment (Isaiah 5:4). God was constant and kind, Isa. inconstant.
GOODNESS] Godliness, Heb. mercy, kindness, all virtue...
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 14:6; 1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:17; 1 Kings 19:17; 1 Samuel
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Therefore — Because I would do for you whatever might be done. Hewed
them — I have severely, and unweariedly reproved, and threatened
them. By thy words — As I did by word foretel, so I did effect in...