Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 6:7
The covenant — The law of their God. There — In that very place, the good land which by covenant I gave them: they have broken my covenant.
The covenant — The law of their God. There — In that very place, the good land which by covenant I gave them: they have broken my covenant.
Verse Hosea 6:7. _BUT THEY LIKE MEN_ (כאדם keadam, "like Adam") _HAVE_ _TRANSGRESSED THE COVENANT_] They have sinned against light and knowledge as _he_ did. This is _sense_, the other is scarcely so...
BUT THEY LIKE MEN - Or (better as in the E. M) “like Adam, have transgressed the covenant.” As Adam our first parent, in Paradise, not out of any pressure, but wantonly, through self-will and pride, b...
CHAPTER 6:4-11 Divine Mourning over Ephraim and Judah _ 1. What shall I do to thee? (Hosea 6:4) _ 2. Their transgression (Hosea 6:7) Hosea 6:4. The Lord grieves and mourns over the condition of the...
HOSEA 6:4 TO HOSEA 7:2. ISRAEL'S MORAL CONDITION HOPELESSLY CORRUPT. The shallow expressions of loyalty by the fickle people mean nothing, and cannot avert Yahweh's inevitable judgment. He looks for r...
LIKE MEN. Hebrew like Adam. MEN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14. Compare Job 31:33.Psalms 49:12; Psalms 82:7. TRANSGRESSED. rebelled. Heb _'abar_. App-44. THE COVENANT. See...
The contrast between Israel's conduct and Jehovah's requirements. _But they like men_ Literally, BUT THEY THEY LIKE (other) MEN TRANSGRESS THE COVENANT (or, perhaps, the ordinance, see on Hosea 8:1)....
_REMEMBERING GOD'S COVENANT HOSEA 6:6-8:_ Gomer had broken the covenant that she had made with Hosea. She had become an unfaithful wife treacherous companion. Israel had likewise broken her covenant w...
DISCOURSE: 1157 OUR TRANSGRESSIONS OF THE COVENANT Hosea 6:7. _But they, like men, have transgressed the covenant_. THE merciful nature of God’s dispensations greatly aggravates our guilt in violatin...
LIKE MEN— It should be rendered, _Like Adam._ As Adam transgressed a plain command; so the Israelites transgressed the plainest and the easiest precepts. As Adam's crime was not to be excused by any n...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDEHER INCONSTANCY TEXT: Hosea 6:1-11 1 Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days wil...
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. BUT THEY, LIKE MEN, HAVE TRANSGRESSED THE COVENANT - the common sort of men (, "Ye shall die like m...
THE SHALLOWNESS OF ISRAEL'S REPENTANCE Hosea now represents the people as counselling one another to repentance in presence of the impending danger; and goes on to point out the futility of a hurried...
LIKE MEN] RV 'like Adam.' In regarding mere sacrifice as a substitute for goodness which God had made the condition of His covenant they had broken it as much as Adam had done by his disobedience: cp....
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 6 THE PEOPLE ARE NOT TRUE TO GOD V1 ‘Come, let us return to the *Lord. He has torn us to pieces, but he will bring us health....
Critics differ much as to the interpretation of this verse. The marginal rendering supplies the strongest meaning. God made a covenant with Adam, and promised him the blessings of Paradise on conditio...
וְ הֵ֕מָּה כְּ אָדָ֖ם עָבְר֣וּ בְרִ֑ית שָׁ֖ם
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
“LET US RETURN UNTO THE LORD” Hosea 6:1-11 How full Scripture is of tender invitations: _Come, and let us return!_ This opening verse is closely connected with Hosea 5:15. The hand that smote was th...
Here we have the prophet's appeal in consequence of the judgment threatened. It was first a message calling the people to return to Jehovah. It was based on the certainty of divine pity; and a promise...
But they (g) like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. (g) That is, like small and weak persons....
_Adam. A compact was made with him, that if he continued faithful or otherwise, his posterity should be born in original justice or sin. (Haydock) --- He transgressed, and was expelled from paradise,...
We find here the same melancholy account, as in the other parts of this prophecy; the Lord complaining of his people's apostacy; Gilead and the house of Israel; Ephraim and Judah; all alike transgress...
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...
VII. HOSEA 6:1-2 (NASB) "COME, LET US RETURN TO THE LORD. FOR HE HAS TORN [US,] BUT HE WILL HEAL US; HE HAS WOUNDED [US,] BUT HE WILL BANDAGE US. 2 "HE WILL REVIVE US AFTER TWO DAYS; HE WILL RAISE U...
God then subjoins a complaint, — _But they like men have transgressed the covenant; there have they dealt treacherously against me_. Here God shows that the Israelites boasted in vain of their sacrifi...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7. Chapter 6 calls forth a touching address from the prophet, in which he entreats the people to return to Jehovah. Faith has always this resource, beca...
BUT THEY, LIKE MEN, HAVE TRANSGRESSED THE COVENANT,.... The false prophets, as Aben Ezra, whom he threatened to cut off and slay, Hosea 6:5; or rather Ephraim and Judah, whose goodness was so fickle a...
_But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me._ Ver. 7. _But they like men_] Heb. like Adam, that archrebel, that old παραβατης, after the similitu...
_But they like men have transgressed the covenant_ That is, as all corrupt men are prone to do; and as other men, who are not under such strong obligations to keep covenant with me, use to do. In the...
But they, the people whom the prophet is rebuking, LIKE MEN, rather, like Adam, HAVE TRANSGRESSED THE COVENANT, this statement being a testimony to the historical character of the first man and his tr...
AN EARNEST INVITATION AND A FURTHER ADMONITION. Having stated his threat in a most uncompromising form, the prophet adds a powerful appeal to the people of his nation to heed the warning of the Lord...
LIKE MEN: Or, like Adam...
4-11 Sometimes Israel and Judah seemed disposed to repent under their sufferings, but their goodness vanished like the empty morning cloud, and the early dew, and they were as vile as ever. Therefore...
I told them by my prophets what I required of them by covenant, but I could not obtain it, they regarded not what I said. LIKE MEN; or, like Adam: some take it for a proper name, and so refer it unto...
Hosea 6:7 men H120 transgressed H5674 (H8804) covenant H1285 treacherously H898 (H8804) men - or, Adam, Ge
‘But they like Adam (or ‘men') have transgressed the covenant. There have they dealt treacherously against me. Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, It is stained with blood. Three views are...
CONTENTS: The voice of the remnant of Israel in the last days. Jehovah's response. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The consideration of God's judgments upon us because of sin should awaken us to return...
Hosea 6:2. _After two days will he revive us._ The Chaldaic paraphrase gives a double acceptation to this text, that the Messiah should raise the dead, and that he should also revive and heal the chur...
_But they, like men, have transgressed the covenant._ THE BREACH OF THE COVENANT OF WORKS General defection is a cause and presage of a sweeping stroke. 1. The crime charged on them. Covenant breaki...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 6:7 BUT LIKE ADAM THEY TRANSGRESSED THE COVENANT. “Covenant” appears four other times in Hosea 1:1 ...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 6:6. SAC.] which they brought. MERCY] which they lacked; a comparison by negatives; things less worthy are rejected. Moral obedience is better than ritual offerings (Matthew 9:1...
EXPOSITION HOSEA 6:1 These three verses have, by the division into chapters, been violently and improperly torn from the preceding chapter, to which they naturally belong. Their connection with the f...
And they will say, Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up (Hsa Hosea 6:1). This is the prayer that they will be offerin...
2 Kings 17:15; Ezekiel 16:59; Genesis 3:11; Genesis 3:6; Hebrews 8:9;...