Probably the hewing by the words of the Prophets, hath a reference to the powerful effects of preaching. We have a striking instance: Acts 7:51. And the Lord compares his word to a fire, and to an hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces. Jeremiah 23:29. See also Hebrews 4:12.
Verse Hosea 6:5. _THEREFORE HAVE I HEWED_ THEM _BY THE PROPHETS_] I have sent my prophets to testify against their fickleness. They have smitten them with the most solemn and awful threatenings; they...
THEREFORE HAVE I HEWED THEM BY THE PROPHETS - Since they despised God’s gentler warnings and measures, He used severer. “He hewed” them, He says, as men hew stones out of the quarry, and with hard blo...
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...
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...
THEREFORE HAVE. HEWED THEM, &C.. This is why. hewed them. Hebrew idiom, by which the declaration that. thing should be done is spoken of the personal act of doing it. See note on Jeremiah 1:18. and co...
Similar fitful repentances have already forced Jehovah to interpose, like a severe but kind physician who will cut out the diseased part rather than suffer the evil to spread. _hewed them by the proph...
THEREFORE HAVE I HEWED THEM— Or, _Therefore have I cut them down._ Houbigant reads, _Certainly I have done what it pleased me to your prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth; and light sh...
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...
Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth. THEREFORE HAVE I HEWED THEM BY THE PROPHETS - i:e., I a...
6:5 light. (a-26) Or 'and thy judgments are [as] a light that goeth forth '...
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...
HEWED.. SLAIN THEM] The prophets are here spoken of as themselves doing what their language threatened. THY JUDGMENTS.. FORTH] It is better to read with LXX, 'My judgment goeth forth as the light.' Th...
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....
The LXX. render, _Therefore I have mowed down their prophets;_ but this would destroy the parallelism, in which “prophets” correspond to “words of my mouth.” The sense is, I have slain them by the ann...
עַל ־כֵּ֗ן חָצַ֨בְתִּי֙ בַּ † נְּבִיאִ֔ים הֲרַגְתִּ֖ים...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
“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...
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...
Therefore have I (d) hewed [them] by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy (e) judgments [are as] the light [that] goeth forth. (d) I have still laboured by my prophets, a...
Mouth. I have ordered my prophets to denounce death unto them, and to treat them roughly, like a piece of marble designed for a statue. Septuagint, &c., "I have slain thy prophets," &c., by Elias, Jeh...
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...
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...
God shows here, by his Prophet, that he was constrained by urgent necessity to deal sharply and roughly with the people. Nothing, we know, is more pleasing to God than to treat us kindly; for there is...
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...
THEREFORE HAVE I HEWED [THEM] BY THE PROPHETS; I HAVE SLAIN THEM BY THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH,.... Sharply reproved them for their sins by the prophets, who were as lapidaries that cut stone, or us hewers...
Therefore have I hewed [them] by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments [are as] the light [that] goeth forth. Ver. 5. _Therefore have I hewed them by my prophets...
_Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets_ Severely reproved and threatened them; or _cut them off_, as the word, חצבתי, may be properly rendered: that is, I have denounced against them great destr...
Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets, endeavoring to give them the right shape; I HAVE SLAIN THEM BY THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH, in most emphatic rebukes; AND THY JUDGMENTS ARE AS THE LIGHT THAT GOE...
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...
AND THY JUDGMENTS ARE AS: Or, that thy judgments might be, etc....
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...
THEREFORE; because I would do for you whatever might be done, because I would cure you of your obstinacy and hypocrisy, and make you upright and constant. I have hewed them; I have severely, continual...
Hosea 6:5 hewn H2672 (H8804) prophets H5030 slain H2026 (H8804) words H561 mouth H6310 judgments H4941 light...
YHWH MAKES CLEAR HIS CURRENT VIEW OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH BECAUSE OF THEIR SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY (HOSEA 6:4). Hosea, in words of YHWH, now contrasts his future glowing picture of Israel's restoration with...
‘Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth.' It was because of this shallowness revealed in their attitudes that God had in the past sent His prophets (M...
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...
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...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 6:5 MY JUDGMENT GOES FORTH AS THE LIGHT. God’s light exposes Israel’s idolatry. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 6:4.] Begins a bitter complaint. WHAT] Both in mercy and judgment (Isaiah 5:4). God was constant and kind, Isa. inconstant. GOODNESS] Godliness, Heb. mercy, kindness, all virtue...
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...
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...
1 Kings 14:6; 1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:17; 1 Kings 19:17; 1 Samuel
Therefore — Because I would do for you whatever might be done. Hewed them — I have severely, and unweariedly reproved, and threatened them. By thy words — As I did by word foretel, so I did effect in...