Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Hosea 4:9
Verse Hosea 4:9. Like people, like priest]
"The priest a wanderer from the narrow way;
The silly sheep, no wonder that they stray."
I will punish them] Both priest and people; both equally bad.
Verse Hosea 4:9. Like people, like priest]
"The priest a wanderer from the narrow way;
The silly sheep, no wonder that they stray."
I will punish them] Both priest and people; both equally bad.
AND THERE SHALL BE LIKE PEOPLE, LIKE PRIEST - Priest and people were alike in sin. Yea they are wont, if bad, to foment each other’s sin. The bad priest copies the sins which he should reprove, and ex...
II. THE MESSAGE OF EXPOSTULATION, JUDGMENT, AND MERCY CHAPTER 4 The Lord's Controversy with His People _ 1. The condition of the people (Hosea 4:1) _ 2. The loss of their priestly relation (Hosea 4...
THE UTTER CORRUPTION OF THE NATION TRACED TO IRRELIGION. (The text of Hosea 4:15 is hopelessly corrupt. Marti regards Hosea 4:3 as an insertion and Hosea 4:5_ a_ as foreign to their present context.)...
LIKE PEOPLE, &C. Compare Isaiah 24:2.Jeremiah 5:31. PUNISH. visit. REWARD. requite....
Here the priests are referred to in the third person; they have been degraded from a great position; how sore must be the punishment!...
_like people, like priest_ i.e. the priest shall fare no better than the people. His official -nearness" to Jehovah shall be no safeguard to him. _I will punish them_ Rather, PUNISH HIM, viz. the pri...
_A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE -- HOSEA 4:6-11:_ Religious ignorance is always sad. This is especially true when people have had the opportunity to know what is right. These people and these priests were destro...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDEFORGETTING THEIR GOD TEXT: Hosea 4:6-10 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no pri...
And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. AND THERE SHALL BE, LIKE PEOPLE, LIKE PRIEST - they are one in guilt, therefore,...
CONDEMNATION OF THE PRIESTHOOD An arraignment against Israel as a whole, because of all manner of wickedness against God and man. Prophet and priest, who ought to have taught them better, are only to...
LIKE.. PRIEST] Priest and people had sinned alike, and would be punished alike....
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 4 THE *LORD ACCUSES ISRAEL V1 People of Israel, listen to the *Lord’s message! The *Lord will argue against the people that liv...
As the people will be punished, so will the priest. The latter will not be saved by wealth or dignity. _And I will visit upon him his ways_ (observe here the collective singular in the pronoun), _and...
וְ הָיָ֥ה כָ † עָ֖ם כַּ † כֹּה
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
“LIKE PEOPLE, LIKE PRIEST” Hosea 4:1-10 This chapter contains a terrible indictment against the whole kingdom. There was neither truth nor mercy in the land, but swearing, lying, and adultery. Apart...
In any attempt to analyze and tabulate the teaching in this second division of the Book it must be remembered that the prophetic utterances cannot be treated as verbatim reports. As they here appear,...
And there shall be, like people, like (k) priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. (k) Signifying that as they have sinned together, so will they be punished toget...
_Priest. They are equally dissolute, and shall meet the like punishment. --- Devices, or thoughts. (Calmet) --- Cogitatio mali operis pænas luet. (St. Jerome)_...
The first verse in this paragraph is a very striking scripture. In some of our old Bibles the margin hath it in yet stronger terms; they eat up the excrement of my people, meaning that which is most t...
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 Futility of Sin I. INTRODUCTION A. As we continue the study of Hosea this morning - chapter 4 marks a turn that continues through the rest of the book. 1. Hosea 8:7 a (NASB) Give us a hint as t...
The Prophet here again denounces on both a common punishment, as neither was free from guilt. _As the people_, he says, _so shall be the priest_; that is “I will spare neither the one nor the other; f...
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...
AND THERE SHALL BE, LIKE PEOPLE, LIKE PRIEST,.... No difference between them in their festivals, the one being as greedy of committing intemperance and uncleanness as the other, and in their common co...
And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. Ver. 9. _And there shall be like people like priest_] _i.e._ they shall share alike...
_They eat up the sin of my people_ These priests, mentioned Hosea 4:6, live upon the sin-offerings of the people; and are so far from restraining them, that they take delight in seeing them commit ini...
And there shall be, in consequence of this situation, LIKE PEOPLE, LIKE PRIEST, the people following their spiritual leaders in their hypocrisy and therefore both of them together sharing the punishme...
THE FIRST PART OF THE ACCUSATION...
PUNISH: _ Heb._ visit upon REWARD: _ Heb._ cause to return...
6-11 Both priests and people rejected knowledge; God will justly reject them. They forgot the law of God, neither desired nor endeavoured to retain it in mind, and to transmit the remembrance to thei...
The sum of these words is this, that God will certainly punish; for the sins both of priests and people are such that God will no further forbear either; and when he comes to punish, he will do it acc...
Hosea 4:9 people H5971 priest H3548 punish H6485 (H8804) ways H1870 reward H7725 (H8686) deeds H4611 like p
YHWH ATTACKS BOTH PRIESTS AND PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY ARE SO TAKEN UP WITH SIN THAT THEY NO LONGER HEED HIM (HOSEA 4:6). Here we may see YHWH as attacking the priests for failing to teach the people, with...
‘And it will be, like people, like priest, and I will punish them for their ways, and will requite them their doings.' For in the end there will be no distinction between people and priest. People an...
ISRAEL'S GROWING SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY AND DEGRADED BEHAVIOUR ARE DESCRIBED ALONG WITH THEIR RELIANCE ON IDOLS, FOREIGNERS, UNWORTHY KINGS AND THEMSELVES, AND THIS IN CONTRAST WITH YHWH'S STEADFAST LOV...
_b INDEX_ to the Introduction, Analyses, Notes (Annotations), Definitions, Summaries and Subject Chain References in the SCOFIELD REFERENCE BIBLE (1917) Fully capitalized entries indicate Subject Ref...
CONTENTS: Charges against Israel for their sinfulness, idolatry and ignorance. CHARACTERS: God, Hosea. CONCLUSION: It is a sad and sore judgment for men when God has to say, «let them alone» giving...
Hosea 4:1. _Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel._ Here a new sermon is built upon a new revelation. Hosea 4:2. _Blood toucheth blood,_ as explained in the words preseding, adultery upon a...
_And there shall be, like people, like priest._ HOSEA’S PROVERB “Like princes, like people”; but also, alas! “like people, like priests,”--a proverb which has acquired currency from its fatal truth,...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 4:1 Accusations, Warnings, and Promises for Israel. In the rest of the book, Hosea details the aspects of Israel’s life that show her unfaithfulness to the Lord, urges her to repen...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 4:7. INCREASED] in number and wealth. SHAME] _i.e._ dishonoured by the loss of all. Some, in proportion as priests were elevated in power and dignity above the people, they sur...
EXPOSITION HOSEA 4:1 A new and distinct division of the book commences with this fourth chapter and continues till the close. What had previously been presented in figure and symbol is now plainly an...
Now we enter into the second part of the book of Hosea, where he declares: HEAR the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land (Hsa Hosea...
Ezekiel 22:26; Hosea 1:4; Isaiah 24:2; Isaiah 3:10; Isaiah 9:14;...