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Verse Hosea 6:9. _AS TROOPS OF ROBBERS_] What a sad picture is this of
the state of the priesthood! The country of Gilead was infamous for
its robberies and murders. The idolatrous priests there forme...
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AND AS TROOPS OF ROBBERS WAIT FOR A MAN, SO THE COMPANY OF PRIESTS
MURDER IN THE WAY BY CONSENT - Or (more probably) “in the way to
Shechem.” Shechem too was a “city of refuge” John 20:7, and so
also...
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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...
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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...
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TROOPS. gangs.
BY CONSENT. towards Sichem, as in Genesis 37:14.
SICHEM (like "Gilead", Hosea 6:8) was. city of priests (Joshua 21:21).
COMMIT LEWDNESS: i.e. practice idolatry. Jeroboam built Shechem...
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Two spots of specially ill fame are singled out Gilead and the road to
Shechem....
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_And as troops_ Rather, AND AS BANDITS LYING IN WAIT, (SO DOTH) THE
COMPANY OF PRIESTS; THEY MURDER ON THE ROAD TOWARDS SHECHEM; YEA, THEY
COMMIT OUTRAGES. The reference in the figure is either to the...
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_RETURNING THE COVENANT OF GOD'S PEOPLE HOSEA 6:9-11:_ Both Israel and
Judah had become very corrupt. Instead of helping the hurting they had
become a “troop of robbers” waiting to harm some individua...
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SO THE COMPANY OF PRIESTS MURDER, &C.— _So the company of priests
meet together, and murder the traveller at Shechem; that they may
execute their wickedness._ The prophet seems to mean that wickedness...
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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...
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And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests
murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
AND AS TROOPS OF ROBBERS WAIT FOR A MAN, SO THE COMPANY OF PRIESTS -
the...
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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...
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IN THE WAY BY CONSENT] RV 'in the way toward Shechem.' At Shechem
also, as we know from Joshua 24:1, there was an ancient sanctuary. In
the time of Jeroboam I it was the capital of the northern kingdo...
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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....
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Should be rendered, _As a robber lies in wait, so the company of
priests murder on the road to Shechem; yea, they execute the plot._
Shechem, charged with historic interest (Genesis to Judges), is als...
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וּ כְ חַכֵּ֨י אִ֜ישׁ גְּדוּדִ֗ים
חֶ֚בֶר כֹּֽה
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THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL
Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
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“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...
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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...
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_Robbers. Jephte had infested those parts, and the country was noted
for murders; whence more cities of refuge were appointed in it, Judges
xi., and Josue xx. 8. The prophet alludes to what had been s...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Prophet pursues more at large what he had briefly touched; for he
does, not now confine himself to the common people, but directs his
accusation against the sacerdotal order. “See,” he says, “the...
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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...
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AND AS TROOPS OF ROBBERS WAIT FOR A MAN,.... As a gang of highwaymen
or footpads lie in wait in a ditch, or under a hedge, or in a cave of
a rock or mountain, for a man they know will come by that way...
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And as troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the company of priests
murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
Ver. 9. _And as troops of robbers wait for a man_] This verse hath
much of...
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Hosea 6:8. _Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity_, &c.
Archbishop Newcome translates these two verses very literally thus:
_Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity: she is marked with
foots...
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And as troops of robbers wait for a man, lying in ambush in order to
fall upon the unsuspecting traveler unawares, SO THE COMPANY OF
PRIESTS MURDER IN THE WAY BY CONSENT, FOR THEY COMMIT LEWDNESS, or,...
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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...
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BY CONSENT:
_ Heb._ with one shoulder. Or, to Sichem
LEWDNESS:
Or, enormity...
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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...
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What is here charged upon these priests, they turned highway-men and
murderers, some understand of their killing and spoiling those that
were going up to Jerusalem to worship God there; but more likel...
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And as troops of robbers wait for a man,
So the company of priests murder in the way towards Shechem,
Yes, they have committed mischief (or ‘a heinous crime'),
In the house of Israel I have seen a...
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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...
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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...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
HOSEA 6:8. GILEAD] A city of refuge, the residence of priests, and the
centre or metropolis of the hilly region beyond Jordan, yet polluted
and the leader of ruin!
HOSEA 6:9.] Even p...
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 12:25; Acts 4:24; Ezekiel 22:27; Ezra 8:31; Hosea 5:1;...
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The company of priests — The priests by companies lay wait, and rob,
and murder....