Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Hosea 5:3
Verse Hosea 5:3. I know Ephraim] I know the whole to be idolaters.
Verse Hosea 5:3. I know Ephraim] I know the whole to be idolaters.
I KNOW EPHRAIM - There is much emphasis on the “I.” It is like our, “I have known,” or “I, I, have known.” God had known him all along, if we may so speak. However deep they may have laid their plans...
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...
EPHRAIM, the largest of the ten tribes, is put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), App-6, for the whole. WHOREDOM. idolatry. See note on Hosea 1:2....
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...
_I know Israel_ The pronoun is expressed for emphasis, I who punish Israel am well acquainted with its open and secret sins....
_ISRAEL IS DEFILED -- HOSEA 5:1-4:_ It was the duty of the priest to lead the people into worship of the true God. Instead they set a snare and got the people caught in the snare of idolatry. At Mizpa...
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;...
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled. I KNOW EPHRAIM - the tribe so called, as distinguished from "Israel" here the oth...
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,...
I KNOW.. FROM ME] ISRAEL and EPHRAIM are in this book synonymous. The people had corrupted themselves by sins of impurity, but Jehovah had seen it and would punish: cp. Psalms 10:14....
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...
אֲנִי֙ יָדַ֣עְתִּי אֶפְרַ֔יִם וְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֹֽא...
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,...
I know (d) Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, [and] Israel is defiled. (d) They boasted themselves not only to be Israelites, but also Ephraimites,...
It should seem, that in the days of the Prophet, such was the general defect in the pure worship of the God of Israel, that even the priests and the great men openly opposed the truth. Mizpah and Tabo...
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...
God shows here that he is not pacified by the vain excuses which hypocrites allege, and by which they think that the judgment of God himself can be turned away. We see what great dullness there is in...
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 KNOW EPHRAIM, AND ISRAEL IS NOT HID FROM ME,.... Though they may cover their designs from men, and seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and make plausible pretences for what they do, and p...
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, [and] Israel is defiled. Ver. 3. _I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me_] Those that by Ephraim un...
_I know Ephraim_ I am perfectly well acquainted with the actions of Ephraim, the head of the ten tribes; _and Israel is not hid from me_ And the actions of the other nine tribes are no less known to m...
THE ACCUSATION AGAINST THE PRIESTS...
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from Me, He was well acquainted with the spirit which possessed them both; FOR NOW, O EPHRAIM, THOU COMMITTEST WHOREDOM, that is, idolatry, AND ISRAEL IS DEFILED,...
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...
These revolters neither are nor can be so deep as to conceal themselves, their designs, contrivances, and practices, from me; I thoroughly know Ephraim. The revolters are also called ISRAEL in this ve...
Hosea 5:3 know H3045 (H8804) Ephraim H669 Israel H3478 hidden H3582 (H8738) Ephraim H669 harlotry H2181 ...
‘I know Ephraim, And Israel is not hid from me, For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot, Israel is defiled. ‘Their doings will not allow them, To turn to their God, For the spirit of whor...
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...
MACCABEES; wars of, (_ See Scofield) - (Malachi 4:6). _ MACEDONIAN; world-empire predicted, (_ See Scofield) - (Daniel 8:1). _ MACEDONIAN; world-empire, end of, ( See Scofield) - ...
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 know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from Me._ KNOWLEDGE AS A BASIS OF JUDGMENT To know Ephraim is to know all his shifts, evasions, and cunning devices, all his plots, pretences, and base ends....
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 5:1 Israel’s rulers have led the way into unfaithfulness. ⇐ ⇔...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 5:1. HEAR] A fresh beginning of reproof, connected with chapter 4, addressed to the priests, the royal family, and the whole kingdom. JUDG.] Lit. _the_ judgment announced in pre...
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 12:26; 1 Kings 14:14; Amos 3:2; Deuteronomy 33:17; E