Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 4:2
Break out — As waters that swell above all banks. Toucheth blood — Slaughters are multiplied; so that the end of one is the beginning of another.
Break out — As waters that swell above all banks. Toucheth blood — Slaughters are multiplied; so that the end of one is the beginning of another.
Verse Hosea 4:2. _BY SWEARING, AND LYING_] Where there is no _truth_ there will be _lies and perjury_; for false swearing is brought in to confirm lying statements. And when there is no _mercy, killi...
BY SWEARING, AND LYING ... - Literally, “swearing or cursing” , “and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery!” The words in Hebrew are nouns of action. The Hebrew form is very vivid...
II. THE MESSAGE OF EXPOSTULATION, JUDGMENT, AND MERCY CHAPTER 4 The Lord's Controversy with His People _ 1. The condition of the people (Hosea 4:1) _ 2. The loss of their priestly relation (Hosea 4...
THE UTTER CORRUPTION OF THE NATION TRACED TO IRRELIGION. (The text of Hosea 4:15 is hopelessly corrupt. Marti regards Hosea 4:3 as an insertion and Hosea 4:5_ a_ as foreign to their present context.)...
BY SWEARING, &C. These are the evils which flow from. want of the knowledge of God. Compare Hosea 4:6; Hosea 2:20. Rom 1:21. 1 John 2:3 1 John 2:4....
The people are summoned to hear whereof Jehovah accuses them, viz. the universal prevalence of the most crying sins. The prophet assures them that this is the true cause of the physical calamity which...
_By swearing_ Rather, (THERE IS NOTHING BUT) SWEARING AND LYING, &c. The -swearing" meant is of course false swearing (Hosea 10:4). _break out_ Viz. into acts of violence; or, -break into (houses)",...
_A CONTROVERSY WITH ISRAEL -- HOSEA 4:1-5:_ When people depart from God's arrangement of things then no one is faithful or loyal or truly cares about God. Without God these people turned to other gods...
BY SWEARING, &C.— _Swearing, and lying, and murther, and theft, and adultery break out,_ &c....
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDEA LACK OF KNOWLEDGE TEXT: Hosea 4:1-5 1 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no tru...
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. BY SWEARING, AND LYING, AND KILLING, AND STEALING, AND COMMITTING ADULTERY, TH...
CONDEMNATION OF THE PRIESTHOOD An arraignment against Israel as a whole, because of all manner of wickedness against God and man. Prophet and priest, who ought to have taught them better, are only to...
BY SWEARING] RV 'There is nought but swearing.' BREAK OUT] commit acts of violence. BLOOD TOUCHETH BLOOD] The whole land is covered with the blood of the murdered, a strong expression to denote the fr...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 4 THE *LORD ACCUSES ISRAEL V1 People of Israel, listen to the *Lord’s message! The *Lord will argue against the people that liv...
BLOOD TOUCHETH BLOOD — _i.e._, murder is added to murder with ghastly prevalence. References to false swearing and lying are repeated in terrible terms by Amos 2:6 and Micah 7:2; and the form of the c...
אָלֹ֣ה וְ כַחֵ֔שׁ וְ רָצֹ֥חַ וְ גָנֹ֖ב
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
“LIKE PEOPLE, LIKE PRIEST” Hosea 4:1-10 This chapter contains a terrible indictment against the whole kingdom. There was neither truth nor mercy in the land, but swearing, lying, and adultery. Apart...
In any attempt to analyze and tabulate the teaching in this second division of the Book it must be remembered that the prophetic utterances cannot be treated as verbatim reports. As they here appear,...
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and (b) blood toucheth blood. (b) In every place appears a liberality to most wicked vices, so that one fol...
_Blood. The successors of Jeroboam II were mostly murdered. (Calmet) --- Incestuous marriages take place. (Haydock)_...
Here is an awful account of sin in some of the deadly branches of it. But the most awful part of it is, that it is Israel, the Israel of God, that is here spoken of. Sin is sin in any nation, and the...
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...
The Futility of Sin I. INTRODUCTION A. As we continue the study of Hosea this morning - chapter 4 marks a turn that continues through the rest of the book. 1. Hosea 8:7 a (NASB) Give us a hint as t...
But after having said that they were full of perfidiousness and cruelty, he adds, _By cursing, and lying, and killing, etc_. , אלה, _ale, _means to swear: some explain it in this place as signifying t...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 AND 5. In chapter 4 we see that the prophet addresses the whole people together. In Verse 15 (Hosea 4:15) he distinguishes Judah from Israel, warning the fo...
BY SWEARING, AND LYING,.... Which some join together, and make but one sin of it, false swearing, so Jarchi and Kimchi; but that swearing itself signifies, as the Targum interprets it; for it not only...
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. Ver. 2. _By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing_] Heb. to swear, and l...
_By swearing_ False swearing seems to be here chiefly intended, which is here, as it is also elsewhere, joined with _lying_ and _stealing;_ because, in the Jewish courts of justice, men that were susp...
(By) swearing, a forbidden use of the name of God, AND LYING, against the Eighth Commandment, AND KILLING, AND STEALING, AND COMMITTING ADULTERY, these vices being general, these transgressions common...
THE FIRST PART OF THE ACCUSATION...
BLOOD: _ Heb._ bloods...
1-5 Hosea reproves for immorality, as well as idolatry. There was no truth, mercy, or knowledge of God in the land: it was full of murders, 2 Kings 21:16. Therefore calamities were near, which would...
BY SWEARING; either falsely or profanely, or cursing and wishing evil to one; instead of truth here is perjury; instead of compassion here is execration and evil-speaking. LYING OF ALL KINDS; affirmin...
Hosea 4:2 swearing H422 (H8800) lying H3584 (H8763) Killing H7523 (H8800) stealing H1589 (H8800) adultery...
YHWH'S INDICTMENT OF ISRAEL AND WARNING OF THE CONSEQUENCES (HOSEA 4:1). YHWH now charges ‘the people (children) of Israel' with being bereft of all truth and compassion because of their lack of the k...
‘There is nought but mouthing curses and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery.' This lack of truth and compassion comes out plainly in their behaviour. They continually p...
ISRAEL'S GROWING SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY AND DEGRADED BEHAVIOUR ARE DESCRIBED ALONG WITH THEIR RELIANCE ON IDOLS, FOREIGNERS, UNWORTHY KINGS AND THEMSELVES, AND THIS IN CONTRAST WITH YHWH'S STEADFAST LOV...
CONTENTS: Charges against Israel for their sinfulness, idolatry and ignorance. CHARACTERS: God, Hosea. CONCLUSION: It is a sad and sore judgment for men when God has to say, «let them alone» giving...
Hosea 4:1. _Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel._ Here a new sermon is built upon a new revelation. Hosea 4:2. _Blood toucheth blood,_ as explained in the words preseding, adultery upon a...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 4:1 Accusations, Warnings, and Promises for Israel. In the rest of the book, Hosea details the aspects of Israel’s life that show her unfaithfulness to the Lord, urges her to repen...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 4:1. CONTROV.] = a legal action (cf. Micah 6:2; Joel 3:2), or ground of complaint with the ten tribes (Hosea 4:15). Truth] _i.e._ truthf
EXPOSITION HOSEA 4:1 A new and distinct division of the book commences with this fourth chapter and continues till the close. What had previously been presented in figure and symbol is now plainly an...
Now we enter into the second part of the book of Hosea, where he declares: HEAR the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land (Hsa Hosea...
1 Thessalonians 2:15; Acts 7:52; Ezekiel 22:2; Ezekiel 22:25; Ho