Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 5:8
Blow ye — Ye watchmen, sound the alarm, the enemy cometh. After thee, O Benjamin — After thy cries. After thee, O Beth — aven, let Benjamin also cry aloud: for they shall also fall for their sin.
Blow ye — Ye watchmen, sound the alarm, the enemy cometh. After thee, O Benjamin — After thy cries. After thee, O Beth — aven, let Benjamin also cry aloud: for they shall also fall for their sin.
Verse Hosea 5:8. _BLOW YE THE CORNET IN GIBEAH_] Gibeah and Ramah were cities of Judah, in the tribe of Benjamin. _AFTER THEE, O BENJAMIN_] An abrupt call of warning. "Benjamin, fly for thy life! The...
BLOW YE THE CORNET IN GIBEAH - The evil day and destruction, denounced, is now vividly pictured, as actually come. All is in confusion, hurry, alarm, because the enemy was in the midst of them. The “c...
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:...
PRIESTS AND RULERS ARE BRINGING THE NATION TO RUIN. Judgment is declared against (Hosea 5:1 _mg._) [9] the priests and ruling class because they have ensnared the people (by encouraging the mixed cult...
CORNET. horn. BETH-AVEN. See note on Hosea 4:15. AFTER THEE, &C. Apparently. war-cry. "[Look] behind thee,. Benjamin! "Compare Judges 5:14; Judges 20:40....
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...
_Blow ye the cornet … the trumpet_ A usual direction on the approach of an invading army; see Hosea 8:1; Jeremiah 4:5; Jeremiah 6:1. Previously to the captivity the cornet and the trumpet were probabl...
_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...
BLOW YE THE CORNET IN GIBEAH— _Lo! the cornet is sounded in Gibeah; and the trumpet in Ramah: howlings are heard at Beth-aven, behind thee, O Benjamin._ Houbigant. The prophet here declares the approa...
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...
Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin. BLOW YE THE CORNET IN GIBEAH. The arrival of the enemy is announced in the form of an injunct...
5:8 aloud (g-11) Or 'sound an alarm,' as Joel 2:1 ....
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 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...
CORNET... TRUMPET. — The two kinds of trumpet mentioned here are the _cornet,_ made like the bent horn of an animal, and the _long, straight metallic trumpet,_ used for sounding an alarm and convoking...
תִּקְע֤וּ שֹׁופָר֙ בַּ † גִּבְעָ֔ה חֲצֹצְרָ֖ה בָּ...
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,...
Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, [and] the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud [at] Bethaven, after thee, O (h) Benjamin. (h) That is, all of Israel that was included under this tribe, signifying that the Lord'...
_Back. Bethel lay northwest of Benjamin. The two tribes would hear the distress of Israel, that they might beware and avoid the like misconduct. (Calmet) --- The captivity is here described. (Worthing...
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...
The Prophet speaks here more emphatically, and there is in these words a certain lively representation; for the Prophet assumes here the character of a herald, or he introduces heralds who declare 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...
BLOW YE THE CORNET IN GIBEAH, [AND] THE TRUMPET IN RAMAH,.... As an alarm of war, to give notice that the enemy is at hand, just ready to invade the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and bring destruction...
Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, [and] the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud [at] Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin. Ver. 8. _Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah_] _Clangite, clamate,_ not w...
_Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah_, &c. The prophet here calls upon the watchmen of Judah and Israel to sound an alarm, and give notice of the approach of the enemy: compare Joel 2:1. It was usual in thos...
Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, the ancient city of Saul, AND THE TRUMPET IN RAMAH, another city located on an eminence, both of them most suitable for giving signals on account of their lofty situation...
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...
BLOW YE THE CORNET; ye watchmen, or whoever have the care and custody of these fortified towns, sound the alarm, for the enemy cometh. IN GIBEAH; a town of Benjamin situate on a hill, built by Asa, 1...
Hosea 5:8 Blow H8628 (H8798) horn H7782 Gibeah H1390 trumpet H2689 Ramah H7414 aloud H7321 (H8685) Aven...
‘Blow you the ram's horn in Gibeah, And the trumpet in Ramah, Sound an alarm at Beth-aven. Behind you, O Benjamin.' The picture is vivid. The call is to the watchmen on the watchtowers to sound the...
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...
RAINBOW; typical meaning, (_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 9:13). _ REBEKAH; type of the church, (_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 24:1). _ RECONCILIATION; not an Old Testament word, ( 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...
_Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah._ AN EARNEST MINISTRY The idea of the passage is, Give an earnest warning of the judgment about to break on the people, sound the alarm and startle the population. I. T...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 5:1 Israel’s rulers have led the way into unfaithfulness. ⇐ ⇔...
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...
1 Kings 12:29; 1 Samuel 15:34; 1 Samuel 7:17; 1 Samuel 8:4; 2 Samuel