Hosea 5:10

Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. EPHRAIM ... JUDAH. - Israel is referred to in Hosea 5:9, Judah in Hosea 5:10. EPHRAIM SHALL BE DESOLATE IN THE DAY OF REBUKE - the day when I shall chastise him. AMONG THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL HAVE I MADE KNOWN - proving that the scene of Hosea's labours were among the ten tribes. AMONG THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL HAVE I MADE KNOWN THAT WHICH SHALL SURELY BE - literally, 'that which is established,' or 'well grounded' [ ne'ªmaanaah (H539)] in the purpose of God, namely, the coming judgment here foretold. It is no...

Here the Prophet transfers the blame of all the evils which then reigned in the tribe of Judah to their princes. He says, that the people had fallen away and departed from God through their fault, and he uses a most fit similitude. We know that there is nothing certain in the possessions of men, except the boundaries of fields be fixed; for no one can otherwise keep his own. But by the metaphor of boundaries in fields, the Prophet refers to the whole political order. The meaning is, that all things were now in a state of disorder and confusion among the Jews; because their leaders who ought to have ruled the people and kept them in obedience, had destroyed the whole order of things. We now then understand what the Prophet had really in view. But it must be observed that the tribe of Judah had been hitherto kept separate, as it were by limits, as God’s heritage; for Israel had become alie...

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 from the wrath to come. Compliance with the commandments of men, who thwart the commandments of God, ripens a people for ruin. The judgments of God are sometimes to a sinful people as a moth, and as rottenness, or as a worm; as these consume the clothes and the wood, so shall the judgments of God consume them. Silently, they shall think themselves safe and thriving, but when they look into their state, shall find themselves wasting and decaying. Slowly, for the Lord gives them space to repent. Many a nation; as well as many a person, dies of a consumption. Gradually, God comes upon sinners with lesser judgments, to prevent greater, if they will be wise, and take warning. When Israel and Judah...

Verse Hosea 5:10. _LIKE THEM THAT REMOVE THE BOUND_] As execrable as they who remove the _land-mark_. They have leaped over law's enclosure, and scaled all the walls of right; they have despised and broken all laws, human and Divine....

THE PRINCES OF JUDAH WERE LIKE THEM THAT REMOVE THE BOUND - All avaricious encroachment on the paternal inheritance of others, was strictly forbidden by God in the law, under the penalty of His curse. “Cursed is he that removeth his neighbor’s landmark” Deuteronomy 27:17. “The princes of Judah,” i. e., those who were the king’s counselors and chief in the civil polity, had committed sin, like to this. Since the prophet had just pronounced the desolation of Israel, perhaps that sin was, that instead of taking warning from the threatened destruction, and turning to God, they thought only how the removal of Ephraim would benefit them, by the enlargement of their borders. They might hope also to increase their private estates out of the desolate lands of Ephraim, their brother. The unregenerate heart, instead of being awed by God’s judgment on others, looks

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, and princes. The house of Israel is the northern kingdom; and the house of the king is the members of the king's family, of his court and of his government. Thus the rulers and the ruled, the spiritual teachers and the taught, are comprehended in this address. Neither priestly office, nor popular power, nor princely dignity was to be exempted. But, though all are summoned to give audience, the heads of the people, the men of light and leading, are first arraigned. FOR JUDGMENT IS TOWARD YOU, as the clause is correctly rendered; not, "it devolves on you to maintain judgment," as some understand it. It had, indeed, been the province o

THE PRINCES OF JUDAH WERE LIKE THEM THAT REMOVE THE BOUND,.... Or landmark, which to do was contrary to the law, Deuteronomy 19:14; and has always been reckoned a heinous sin among all nations, and is only done by such who have no regard to right and wrong, and by them secretly; and such were the kings, princes, and nobles of Judah; they secretly committed the grossest iniquities, yea, were abandoned to their vile lusts, and could not be contained within any bounds. The "caph" here used is, according to Kimchi and Ben Melech, not a note of similitude, but of certainty; and then the sense is, that the princes of Judah did remove the bound; either, in a literal sense, by force and violence seized on the possessions and inheritances of their neighbours which lay next to theirs; or, in a figurative sense, they broke through all bounds and limits, and transgressed the laws of God and men

TABERNACLE; divided, (_ See Scofield) - (1 Chronicles 16:37). _ TABERNACLES; feast of, observed, (_ See Scofield) - (Nehemiah 8:17). _ TABERNACLES; feast of, typical meaning, (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 25:9). _ (_ See Scofield) - (Leviticus 23:42). _ TARES; in Kingdom of heaven, (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 13:24). _ ( See Scofield) - ...

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 5:8) 3. The future return and the blessing (Hosea 6:1) Hosea 5:1. The first verse shows who is addressed: the priests, the house of Israel and the house of the King. Judgment was in store for them, for Mizpah and Tabor, the places of hallowed memory, had been turned by their idolatrous worship into a snare. An old and interesting tradition among the Jews states that at Mizpah the apostates waited for those Israelites who

Here the immoral cultus is no longer the subject, but the inner moral corruption of the state and its leaders. The parallelism of Judah and Ephraim in this section is remarkable, but seems to be original. [10] Judah's political leaders are specially singled out as examples of fraudulent dealing, and shall incur the Divine wrath. N. Israel (Ephraim) also suffers oppression, the whole social fabric is rotten, because the people have wilfully followed after vanity (_mg.)._ Internal decay has set in in both kingdoms (after the death of Uzziah and Jeroboam II) (Hosea 5:10). Too late both peoples recognise the desperate case of the body politic, and resort to Assyria for aid (king Jareb, _i.e._ king Pick-quarrel, [11] is a nickname for the king of Assyria), but without avail; Yahweh Himself is their adversary (Hosea 5:13