Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Hosea 5:7
strange. apostates (who had become as foreigners). Heb . sur. See note on Proverbs 5:3.
children. sons.
a month.. short time will complete their dispossession. Shallum reigned just. month (2 Kings 15:13).
strange. apostates (who had become as foreigners). Heb . sur. See note on Proverbs 5:3.
children. sons.
a month.. short time will complete their dispossession. Shallum reigned just. month (2 Kings 15:13).
Verse Hosea 5:7. _NOW SHALL A MONTH DEVOUR THEM_] In a month's time the king of Assyria shall be upon them, and oblige them to purchase their lives and liberties by a grievous tax of _fifty_ shekels...
THEY HAVE DEALT TREACHEROUSLY - Literally, “have cloaked,” and so, acted deceitfully. The word is used of treachery of friend toward his friend, of the husband to his wife, or the wife husband. “Surel...
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...
Why Jehovah has withdrawn himself, _dealt treacherously_ i.e. faithlessly. The word is used of an adulteress, Jeremiah 3:20. _they have begotten strange children_ The subject of the verb are the Israe...
A personal arraignment of the priesthood (accused less directly in chap. 4) and of the court, who, instead of warning the people, have led them into the snare of sin. So entangled are they in it that...
_THE PRIDE OF ISRAEL -- HOSEA 5:5-7:_ The pride of Israel contributed to their sins. Pride is: (1) an overvalued sense of one's own personal value or an excessively high opinion of oneself, (2) arroga...
FOR THEY HAVE BEGOTTEN, &C.— By their alliance with strange women, contrary to the law. Or, it may have a spiritual allusion to their vices and deviations. Instead of, _Now shall a month,_ &c. Houbiga...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDEREBELLION AND TRANSGRESSION TEXT: Hosea 5:1-7 1 Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king; for unto you pertaineth the judgment;...
They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions. THEY HAVE DEALT TREACHEROUSLY AGAINST THE LORD - as to t...
5:7 moon (e-17) Or 'a month.' possessions. (f-23) Or 'portions.'...
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,...
STRANGE CHILDREN] Some see here an allusion to intermarriage with the Canaanites: cp. Ezra 9:10. But it may be merely metaphorical. The result of their faithless union with heathen gods was a race of...
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...
STRANGE CHILDREN refers to offspring that followed in the ways of their mother. (Comp. Hosea 1) Some reference is involved to the consequences of intermarriage with heathen. The “month” may be a perso...
בַּ יהוָ֣ה בָּגָ֔דוּ כִּֽי ־בָנִ֥ים זָרִ֖ים י
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,...
They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten (f) strange children: now shall (g) a month devour them with their portions. (f) That is, their children are degenerate, so that...
_Strangers. That is, aliens form God: and therefore they are threatened with speedy destruction. (Challoner) --- Their offspring is rebellious, and deserves no longer to be called my people, chap. i....
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...
He says that _they had acted perfidiously with God, _for they had violated his covenant. We must bear in mind what I have said before of the mutual faith which God stipulates with us, when he binds hi...
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...
THEY HAVE DEALT TREACHEROUSLY AGAINST THE LORD,.... Which was the reason of his departure from them; as a woman deals treacherously with her husband when she is unfaithful to him, and commits adultery...
They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions. Ver. 7. _They have dealt treacherously against the Lord_] T...
_They have dealt treacherously against the Lord_ The word בגד, rendered, _to deal treacherously_, signifies properly, a wife's being false to her husband; see Jeremiah 3:20; from whence it is applied...
THE ACCUSATION AGAINST THE PRIESTS...
They have dealt treacherously against the Lord, in blasphemous faithlessness; FOR THEY HAVE BEGOTTEN STRANGE CHILDREN, as though by illicit intercourse with idols; NOW SHALL AN MONTH DEVOUR THEM WITH...
1-7 The piercing eye of God saw secret liking and disposition to sin, the love the house of Israel had to their sins, and the dominion their sins had over them. Pride makes men obstinate in other sin...
THEY, the whole house of Israel, priests, people, and princes, and their kings with them, HAVE DEALT TREACHEROUSLY; have falsified their word and promise of fidelity and constancy, of love and affecti...
Hosea 5:7 treacherously H898 (H8804) LORD H3068 begotten H3205 (H8804) pagan H2114 (H8801) children H1121 Moon...
JUDGMENT IS ANNOUNCED ON THE PRIESTS, PEOPLE AND ROYAL HOUSE OF ISRAEL BECAUSE OF THEIR GOING ASTRAY IN THEIR RITUAL, SOMETHING WHICH HAS PREVENTED THEM FROM TURNING TO YHWH AND HAS MADE THEM UNACCEPT...
‘With their flocks and with their herds, They will go to seek YHWH, But they will not find him, He has withdrawn himself from them.' ‘Against YHWH have they dealt treacherously, Because they have...
QUAILS; in the wildnerness, (_ See Scofield) - (Numbers 11:31). _ QUOTATIONS; in New Testament from Old Testament, (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 10:5). _...
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...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 5:1 Israel’s rulers have led the way into unfaithfulness. ⇐ ⇔...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 5:5 PRIDE] The haughtiness of Isa. shall be a witness before God of their folly. Others refer it to Jehovah, the glory of Is., who will witness by judgments and the destruction...
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...
Ezekiel 12:28; Hosea 6:7; Isaiah 48:8; Isaiah 59:13; Jeremiah 3:20;...
Have begotten — They have trained up their children in the same idolatry. A month — Possibly it may refer to Shallum's short time of usurpation, which lasted but a month; the Assyrians shall make a sp...