Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 5:13
His sickness — Weakness, like a consumption, threatening death. Then went — Made application. The Assyrian — Particularly to Israel or Pul.
His sickness — Weakness, like a consumption, threatening death. Then went — Made application. The Assyrian — Particularly to Israel or Pul.
Verse Hosea 5:13. _WHEN EPHRAIM SAW HIS SICKNESS_] When both Israel and Judah felt their own weakness to resist their enemies, instead of calling upon and trusting in _me_, they sought sinful alliance...
WHEN EPHRAIM SAW HIS SICKNESS - Literally, “And Ephraim saw,” i. e., perceived it. God proceeds to tell them, how they acted when they felt those lighter afflictions, the decline and wasting of their...
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...
KING JAREB. Professor Sayce (_Higher Criticism and the Monuments,_ pp 416, 417) thinks "Jareb" may he the birth-name of the usurper Sargon II, the successor of Shalmaneser. Shalmaneser did not take Sa...
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...
Both states are conscious of the destroying cancer, but neither of them adopts the only possible means of arresting its progress. _his sickness … his wound_ The ordinary figure for corruption of the...
_SEEKING THE LORD -- HOSEA 5:13-15:_ Sadly when the punishment started God's people turned to Assyria for help. How sad, "When Israel and Judah saw their sickness and wounds, Israel asked help from As...
DISCOURSE: 1151 THE FOLLY OF CREATURE-CONFIDENCE Hosea 5:13. _When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal...
WHEN EPHRAIM SAW HIS SICKNESS, &C.— Houbigant translates this verse throughout in the future. _Ephraim shall see,—shall go,_ &c. and instead of _king Jareb,_ he reads, _to the king his avenger;_ meani...
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...
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. WHEN EPHRAIM SAW HIS SICKNE...
5:13 Jareb; (i-20) Meaning, 'he will contend;' and so ch. 10.6....
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,...
ASSYRIAN.. JAREB] cp. Hosea 10:6. This refers probably to Menahem paying voluntary tribute to Tiglath-pileser (Pul, 2 Kings 15:19). The name Jareb ('adversary') is coined by Hosea to point out the abs...
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...
TO THE ASSYRIAN. — Their adversity leads Ephraim to seek protection from their formidable foe instead of turning to the Lord. (On “Jareb,” see _Excursus._) EXCURSUS A: ON JAREB (HOSEA 5:13). Schrader...
וַ יַּ֨רְא אֶפְרַ֜יִם אֶת ־חָלְיֹ֗ו וִֽ יהוּד
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
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...
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,...
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah [saw] his wound, then went Ephraim to (m) the Assyrian, and sent to king (n) Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. (m) Instead of seek...
_Avenging. Hebrew and Septuagint Jareb, (St. Jerome) which some explain of the king of Egypt; others understand the Assyrian; (chap. x. 6.) while most suppose that Ephraim applied to Phul, and Juda se...
If we read those scriptures spiritually, and with an eye to Christ, (and in this sense will they be particularly profitable), we discover in them the weakness of all human attainments, and all human s...
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...
_‘PHYSICIANS OF NO VALUE’_ ‘When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither shall he cure you of...
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 Lord complains that he had in vain chastised the Israelites by the usual means, for they thought that they had remedies ready for themselves, and turned their minds to vain hopes. This is usu...
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...
WHEN EPHRAIM SAW HIS SICKNESS, AND JUDAH [SAW] HIS WOUND,.... That their civil state were in a sickly condition, very languid, weak, feeble, and tottering, just upon the brink of ruin; see Isaiah 1:6;...
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah [saw] his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. Ver. 13. _When Ephraim saw...
_When Ephraim, saw his sickness_ When the king of Israel, namely, Menahem, saw himself too weak to contend with Pul, king of Assyria, he sent an embassy to him to make him his ally, and, in order to d...
THE THREAT OF PUNISHMENT...
When Ephraim saw his sickness, becoming aware of the illness of the body politic, and. JUDAH SAW HIS WOUND, realizing that something was rotten in the nation, THEN WENT EPHRAIM TO THE ASSYRIAN, lookin...
TO KING JAREB: Or, to the king of Jareb: Or, to the king that should plead...
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...
WHEN, Heb. _And_, after that. Ephraim; the king, and council, and kingdom of the ten tribes; Menahem is surely meant: see 2 Kings xv. SAW HIS SICKNESS; weakness, like a consumption, threatening death....
Hosea 5:13 Ephraim H669 saw H7200 (H8799) sickness H2483 Judah H3063 wound H4205 Ephraim H669 went H3212 ...
‘When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah saw his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, And sent to the Great King, But he is not able to heal you, Nor will he cure you of your wound.' The main wa...
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...
WALKING; in the light, (_ See Scofield) - (1 John 1:7). _ WATER; symbol of Holy Spirit, (_ See Scofield) - (Acts 2:4). _ WAVE-LOAVES; type of church, ( See Scofield) - ...
Hosea 5:13 ; HOSEA 6:2 So Ephraim and Judah went to the wrong person, and did not gain much by their application. The same fatal error is being perpetrated by multitudes amongst us still. The error i...
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...
_When Ephraim saw his sickness. .. then went Ephraim to the Assyrian._ THE FOLLY OF CREATURE-CONFIDENCE Men continually provoke God to chastise them, but rarely make a due improvement of His chastis...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 5:1 Israel’s rulers have led the way into unfaithfulness. ⇐ ⇔...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 5:13 WHEN EPHRAIM SAW HIS SICKNESS, AND JUDAH HIS WOUND. Using physical infirmities to describe spiritual corruption is common in the OT prophets. Notice how frequently Hosea links...
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.]...
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 Chronicles 28:20; 2 Chronicles 28:21; 2 Kings 15:19;...