Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 5:10
The bound — The ancient bounds which limited every one, and prevented the encroaching of covetous men. Like water — Like an overflowing flood.
The bound — The ancient bounds which limited every one, and prevented the encroaching of covetous men. Like water — Like an overflowing flood.
Verse Hosea 5:10. _LIKE THEM THAT REMOVE THE BOUND_] As execrable as they who remove the _land-mark_. They have leaped over law's enclosure, and scaled all the walls of right; they have despised and b...
THE PRINCES OF JUDAH WERE LIKE THEM THAT REMOVE THE BOUND - All avaricious encroachment on the paternal inheritance of others, was strictly forbidden by God in the law, under the penalty of His curse....
CHAPTER 5:1-6:3 The Message to the Priests, the People, and the Royal House Judgment, Affliction and the Future Return _ 1. The message of rebuke (Hosea 5:1) _ 2. The judgment announced (Hosea 5:...
Here the immoral cultus is no longer the subject, but the inner moral corruption of the state and its leaders. The parallelism of Judah and Ephraim in this section is remarkable, but seems to be origi...
THAT REMOVE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 19:14; Deuteronomy 27:17). App-92 Elsewhere only in Job 24:2.Proverbs 22:28
The prophet -in the spirit" sees the threatened trouble bursting upon both the separated kingdoms. In vain will Ephraim seek help from Assyria; there is no deliverance from Jehovah's hand until Ephrai...
_were like them that remove the bound_ Rather, ARE BECOME LIKE THEM THAT REMOVE THE LANDMARK. The landmarks were under the protection of religion (Proverbs 22:28; Proverbs 23:10; Deuteronomy 19:14), a...
_AN OPPORTUNITY TO REPENT -- HOSEA 5:8-12:_ God said, Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin. (Hosea 5:8) Trumpets were used to warn a na...
THE PRINCES OF JUDAH, &C.— "They have violated the most sacred laws of the Almighty, upon which not only the ordinances of his worship, but also the rights and properties of men depend; and are become...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDEREBELLION AND TRANSGRESSION TEXT: Hosea 5:8-15 8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: sound an alarm at Beth-aven, behind thee, O Benjamin. 9 Ephraim shall...
Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. EPHRAIM ... JUDAH. - Israel is referred to in Hosea 5:9, Judah in Hosea 5:1...
PREDICTIONS OF PUNISHMENT The priests, the people, and the royal dynasty have alike sinned, and will alike be punished. Their coquetting with Assyria will prove utterly futile. Judah has also sinned,...
THE PRINCES.. BOUND (RV 'landmark')] They had abused their power to oppress and rob the people. The prophet here includes Judah in his denunciations and threats of consequent punishment. The Assyrians...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 5 THE *LORD IS ANGRY WITH *PRIESTS V1 ‘Listen to this, you *priests! Be careful how you listen, people of Israel! Listen, you t...
The princes of Judah, such as Ahaz, whose pusillanimity brought untold evil on both Israel and Judah (2 Kings 16:10). LIKE THEM THAT REMOVE THE BOUND (landmark). — A practice prohibited in Deuteronomy...
הָיוּ֙ שָׂרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה כְּ מַסִּיגֵ֖י גְּב֑וּל...
2. PRIESTS AND PRINCES FAIL Hosea 5:1 The line followed in this paragraph is almost parallel to that of chapter 4, running out to a prospect of invasion. But the charge is directed solely against th...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
GOD'S REBUKE OF APOSTASY Hosea 5:1-15 The prophet continues his grave indictment of his people. The court and the priesthood were chiefly responsible for the awful degeneracy that was eating out the...
Having thus declared the cause of pollution, the prophet's next message was especially addressed to priest, people, and king. First to the priests and the king as elders, and consequently responsible,...
The princes of Judah were like them that (k) remove the bound: [therefore] I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. (k) They have turned upside down all political order and all manner of religi...
_Bound. This was a capital crime, under Numa, and forbidden, Deuteronomy xix. 14. (Calmet) --- Juda hoped to seize what was abandoned. (St. Jerome) --- They deferred doing penance, and removed the bou...
The Prophet Hosea useth many similitudes, in order to convey yet more forcibly his divine truths; but the whole of what is here said, is much to one and the same purpose; namely, the defection of Isra...
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...
V. HOSEA 5:2 (NASB) AND THE REVOLTERS HAVE GONE DEEP IN DEPRAVITY, BUT I WILL CHASTISE ALL OF THEM. VI. Hosea 5:15 (NASB) I WILL GO AWAY [AND] RETURN TO MY PLACE UNTIL THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR GUILT AN...
Here the Prophet transfers the blame of all the evils which then reigned in the tribe of Judah to their princes. He says, that the people had fallen away and departed from God through their fault, and...
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...
THE PRINCES OF JUDAH WERE LIKE THEM THAT REMOVE THE BOUND,.... Or landmark, which to do was contrary to the law, Deuteronomy 19:14; and has always been reckoned a heinous sin among all nations, and is...
The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: [therefore] I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. Ver. 10. _The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound_] A wickednes...
_The princes of Judah_, &c. The prophet in this chapter passes frequently from the one kingdom to the other, that he might set forth the crimes, and foretel the punishments of both, unless they averte...
The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound, Cf Deuteronomy 19:14, namely, by removing the boundary between the worship of the true God and idolatry, which should have been kept apart fo...
THE THREAT OF PUNISHMENT...
8-15 The destruction of impenitent sinners is not mere talk, to frighten them, it is a sentence which will not be recalled. And it is a mercy that we have timely warning given us, that we may flee fr...
THE PRINCES; the great men about the king and court, the rulers and governors, who by the law of God and man should have been the maintainers of equity and justice among the people. OF JUDAH; of the k...
Hosea 5:10 princes H8269 Judah H3063 remove H5253 (H8688) landmark H1366 out H8210 (H8799) wrath H5678 water...
‘The princes of Judah are like those who remove the landmark, I will pour out my wrath on them like water.' Judah also is to face YHWH's chastisement although not to the same degree. There is no ment...
EPHRAIM ARE TO PREPARE FOR AN INVASION WHICH WILL LEAD TO THEIR DESOLATION WHILST JUDAH WILL BE PUNISHED FOR TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION TO SEIZE LAND. BOTH WILL SUFFER AS A CONSEQUENCE. MEANWHI...
TABERNACLE; divided, (_ See Scofield) - (1 Chronicles 16:37). _ TABERNACLES; feast of, observed, (_ See Scofield) - (Nehemiah 8:17). _ TABERNACLES; feast of, typical meaning, ( See Scofield) - ...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's face withdrawn from Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: There is a time when Jehovah will not be found when it is time for His judgments to fall on a rebellious, sinful people....
Hosea 5:1. _Ye have been a snare and a net spread upon Tabor._ This was a high mountain of Galilee, in the lot of Zebulon, called by the Greeks Itabyricum, having a plain on the top. Idolatry has ever...
_The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound._ BREAKING BOUNDS It was a custom among the heathen and the Romans, if any man removed the bound, the ancient landmark, to adjudge them, if...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 5:1 Israel’s rulers have led the way into unfaithfulness. ⇐ ⇔...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 5:10 LIKE THOSE WHO MOVE THE LANDMARK. To move a neighbor’s boundary marker is forbidden (Deuteronomy 19:14;...
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...
EXPOSITION HOSEA 5:1 HEAR YE THIS, O PRIESTS; AND HEARKEN, YE HOUSE OF ISRAEL; AND GIVE YE EAR, O HOUSE OF THE KING. The persons here addressed comprise all the estates of the realm—priests, people,...
Shall we begin tonight with chapter 5. In chapter 5, Hosea the prophet speaks for the Lord unto the priests and unto the princes of Israel, unto the house of the king. Hear ye this, O priests; hearke...
2 Chronicles 28:16; 2 Kings 16:7; Deuteronomy 19:14; Deuteronomy 27:17;...