Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment. EPHRAIM IS OPPRESSED AND BROKEN IN JUDGMENT - namely, 'crushed' in the "judgment" of God on him (Hosea 5:1). BECAUSE HE WILLINGLY WALKED AFTER THE COMMANDMENT - he willfully followed Jeroboam's commandment to worship the calves. (Thus Jehu walked after "the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin," 2 Kings 10:28-12. "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold thy gods, O lsrael, which brought you out of the land of Egypt; and Jeroboam ordained a feast unto ... Israel.") Compare Micah 6:16, "The statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of...

Here again the Prophet shows that the vengeance of God would be just against Israel, because they willingly followed the impious edicts of their king. The people might indeed have appeared to be excusable, since religion had not been changed by their voice, or by public consent, or by any contrivance of the many, but by the tyrannical will of the king alone: Jeroboam was not induced by superstition, but by subtile wickedness, to erect altars elsewhere, and not at Jerusalem. The people then might have appeared to be without blame; for the king alone devised this artifices to secure himself from danger. But the Prophet shows that all were implicated in the same guilt before God, because the people adopted with alacrity the impious forms of worship which the king had commanded. He therefore says, that _Ephraim is exposed to plunder, that he is broken by judgment, _(or, “shall be broken,” fo...

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 5:11. _WALKED AFTER THE COMMANDMENT._] Jeroboam's commandment to worship his calves at Dan and Beth-el. Many of them were not _forced_ to do this, they did it _willingly_....

EPHRAIM IS OPPRESSED AND BROKEN IN JUDGMENT - Literally, “crushed in judgment.” Holy Scripture, elsewhere also, “combines” these same two words, rendered “oppressed” and “crushed,” in speaking of man’s oppression by man. Ephraim preferred man’s commands and laws to God’s; they obeyed man and set God at nought; therefore they should suffer at man’s hands, who, while he equally neglected God’s will, enforced his own. The “commandment,” which “Ephraim willingly went after,” was doubtless that of Jeroboam; “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought you out of the land of Egypt; and Jeroboam ordained a feast unto the children of Israel” 1 Kings 12:28, 1 Kings 12:32. Through this “commandment,” Jeroboam earned the dreadful title, “

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

EPHRAIM [IS] OPPRESSED, [AND] BROKEN IN JUDGMENT,.... Here the prophet again returns to the ten tribes, who were oppressed and broken, either by their own judgments, as the Targum; by the tyranny of their kings, and the injustice of their judges, who looked only for the mammon of unrighteousness; or by the judgment of their enemies, the Assyrians, the taxes they laid upon them, the devastations they made among them, and by whom, at last, they were carried captive; or by the judgments of God upon them; for all the enemy did was by his permission, and according to his will: BECAUSE HE WILLINGLY WALKED AFTER THE COMMANDMENT; not after the commandment of God, but after the commandment of men, as Aben Ezra; or after the commandment of the prophets of Baal, as Jarchi; or after the commandment of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, as Kimchi, by worshipping the calves at Dan and Bethel he set up there....

UNBELIEVERS; subject to demon possession, (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 7:22). _ UNLEAVENED; bread, feast of, (_ See Scofield) - (Leviticus 23:6). _ "UNTIL,"; the three of Israel, (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 23:39). _ URIM; and Thummim, (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 28:30). _ UZ; land of, (_ See Scofield) - (Job 1:1). _...

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