CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 5:1. HEAR] A fresh beginning of reproof, connected with chapter 4, addressed to the priests, the royal family, and the whole kingdom. JUDG.] Lit. _the_ judgment announced in preceding chapter. YOU] Priests and court. SNARE] A net laid to entice the people, like birds in a tra... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 5:4. WILL NOT FRAME] Heb. give their doings. Margin, will not suffer them. They are slaves, not free to turn from evil habits. Their works stand in the way, prevent them from returning. Habit is a second nature domineering over men’s thoughts and ways. IN THEM] The knowledge... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 5:5 PRIDE] The haughtiness of Isa. shall be a witness before God of their folly. Others refer it to Jehovah, the glory of Is., who will witness by judgments and the destruction of their false glory (ch. Hosea 7:10; Amos 8:7). JUD.] shall fall, because participating in Israel’... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 5:8. The evil denounced is vividly described as actually come. HOSEA 5:9. SHALL SURELY BE] Lit. established or well grounded in God’s purpose. On lofty summits the invasion of the enemy is announced, Jud. is menaced, and Isa. is occupied, destruction is sure and permanent. T... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 5:12. MOTH AND ROTTENNESS] Destructive powers, one injuring cloths, the other wood and flesh; slowly but surely do they work (Job 13:28). The sinner has foes within and without; conscience gnaws like a worm, and Divine judgment falls like a plague. _HOMILETICS_ DESTRUCTION... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 5:13. SICK.] Not civil war between the two kingdoms, for both were wounded. Apostasy with its train of moral corruptions was the disease of the body politic (Isaiah 1:6). EPH.] with whom the prophecy has chiefly to do, sought help and found none from Assyria. HOSEA 5:14. LIO... [ Continue Reading ]