Tenderness blends with judgment, and insulted love bleeds and hopes. The image of the lion is dropped. Jehovah speaks of “His own place” — Heaven. He will cause all manifestations of His regard for them to cease till “they suffer punishment, and seek my face,” and, like the prodigal in the flush of a new morning, will arise and go unto the Father.
Verse Hosea 5:15. _I WILL GO_ AND _RETURN TO MY PLACE_] I will abandon them till they acknowledge their offenses. This had the wished-for effect, as we shall see in the following chapter; for they rep...
I WILL GO AND RETURN TO MY PLACE - As the wild beast, when he has taken his prey, returns to his covert, so God, when He had fulfilled His will, would, for the time, withdraw all tokens of his presenc...
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:...
HOSEA 5:15 TO HOSEA 6:3. ISRAEL'S CONFESSION AND PENITENCE. Yahweh, speaking in His own person, declares that He will return to His place (_i.e._ to heaven; _cf._ Micah 1:3), there to await Israel's p...
TILL THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR OFFENCE. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:40). National repentance is the condition of Israel's restoration. SEEK MY FACE. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:29)....
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...
_return to my place_ See Micah 1:3, from which it is clear that Jehovah's -place" is the heavenly temple (Isaiah 6:1). Now that Jehovah has for a time deserted his guilty people, he will return to his...
_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: 1152 SPIRITUAL DESERTION Hosea 5:15. _I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early_. MEN. when they...
I WILL GO, AND RETURN, &C.— "I will give them up to exile, and withdraw myself, till with a sincere humiliation they implore my favour." The Chaldee expresses the sense in the. following manner: "I wi...
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...
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. I WILL GO AND RETURN TO MY PLACE - i:e., withdraw my favour. T...
5:15 trespass, (l-15) Or 'guilt,' _ asham_ . see Note b, Leviticus 5:1 . early. (m-27) Or 'earnestly.'...
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...
אֵלֵ֤ךְ אָשׁ֨וּבָה֙ אֶל ־מְקֹומִ֔י עַ֥ד אֲשֶֽׁר...
3. REPENTANCE FALLS Hosea 5:15 - Hosea 7:2 Seeing that their leaders are so helpless, and feeling their wounds, the people may themselves turn to God for healing, but that will be with a repentance s...
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,...
_Place; to heaven. I will abandon my temple. (Calmet) --- Face: "they will seek the absent." (St. Jerome)_...
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...
REFLECTIONS MY soul dost thou behold in this Chapter, the false teachers here described? Ponder well the awfulness of such characters, who to please men, and find favor with the great, set their nets...
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...
_THE CONFESSION OF SIN_ ‘I will go and return to My place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek My face: in their affliction they will seek Me early.’ Hosea 5:15 It is the picture of a fat...
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 word שחר, _shicker, _signifies the morning: hence the verb means, “to seek early,” or, “to rise early,” as men do when they apply themselves diligently to anything: but in many places of Scripture...
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...
I WILL GO [AND] RETURN TO MY PLACE,.... Leave the countries of Israel and of Judah, where he had used to grant his gracious and spiritual presence unto his people, and watched over them, and cared for...
I will go [and] return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. Ver. 15. _I will go and return to my place_] To my palace of he...
_I will go and return to my place_ I will withdraw myself from them, and give them up to exile and punishment, till they acknowledge their offence and seek my face: that is, till they confess their si...
I will go and return to My place, as though shutting Himself up in heaven and withdrawing His favor entirely, TILL THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR OFFENSE AND SEEK MY FACE, this being the hope which is held be...
THE THREAT OF PUNISHMENT...
TILL THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR OFFENCE: _ Heb._ till they be guilty...
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...
I WILL GO AND RETURN TO MY PLACE: after the manner of man God speaks, he will do that which shall be like a man's going away from such as refuse though they need his help, he retires; God will withdra...
Hosea 5:15 return H3212 (H8799) again H7725 (H8799) place H4725 offense H816 (H8799) seek H1245 ...
‘I will go and return to my place, Until they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.' The thought of the lion going away to the shelter of his...
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...
Hosea 5:15 I. We often feel as if God were gone away from us. May it not be that there is just that difference just that distinct boundary-line between absence and presence, "till they shall acknowle...
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...
_I will go and return to My place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek My face: in their affliction they will seek Me early._ GOD’S END AND DESIGN IN AFFLICTION This whole chapter, with the...
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...
1 Kings 8:10; 1 Kings 8:47; 1 Kings 8:48; 2 Chronicles 33:12;...