Hosea 5:14

For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him. FOR I WILL BE UNTO EPHRAIM AS A LION, AND AS A YOUNG LION - the black lion [ shachal (H7826)] and the young lion [ kªpiyr (H3715)] are emblems of strength and ferocity (Psalms 91:13). He who had seemed in his judgments but as a tiny "moth" fretting a garment was now about to become as a fierce roaring lion (so the Hebrew is literally), tearing to nieces in a moment. As the roaring lion awaits Ephraim, the older offender, so the young lion awaits Judah, whose apostasy was more recent. I, EVEN I, WILL TEAR - emphatic...

As I have said, the Prophet confirms this truth, that Israel had recourse in vain to false physicians, when they left God. How so? Because the whole world, were it to favor us, could not yet help us, against the will of God and his opposing power. But God here declares that he would be adverse to the Israelites; as though he said, “Provide human aids as much as you please; but will the Assyrian be superior to me in power? Can he hinder me from pursuing you as I have determined?” Thus God shows that he would deal in a new and different manner with the Israelites and the Jews: “I will not,” he says, “be any longer like a moth and a worm; I shall come like a lion to you, with an open mouth to devour you: now let the Assyrian king come forth, when I shall thus go armed against you; can he put any hindrance in my way, that I should not execute my vengeance, as it shall seem good to me?” We no...

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 5:14. _I_ WILL BE - _AS A LION_] כשחל _cashshachel_, as a _panther_ or _lioness_....

FOR I WILL BE UNTO EPHRAIM AS A LION - He who would thus strengthen himself by Outward help against God’s chastisements, challenges, as it were, the Almighty to a trial of strength. So then God, unwilling to abandon him to himself, changes His dealings, and , “He who had heretofore, in His judgments, seemed but as a tender moth or a weak worm,” now shows forth His resistless power, imaged by His creatures in whom the quality of power is most seen. It may again be, that the fiercer animal (literally, the roaring) is associated with the name of Ephraim; that of the younger lion, fierce and eager for prey, yet not full-grown, with that of Judah. I, I WILL TEAR - “It is a fearful thing, to fall into the Hands of the Living God” Hebrews 10:31. The Assyrian was but the rod of God’s anger, and the staff, He says, in thine h

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

FOR I [WILL BE] UNTO EPHRAIM AS A LION, AND AS A YOUNG LION TO THE HOUSE OF JUDAH,.... Being provoked by their above conduct and behaviour in seeking to others, and not to him, for help, he threatens to punish them in a more public and severe manner; not be to them only as a moth and rottenness, but as a lion, and as a young lion, creatures strong and fierce, that destroy and devour all that come into their hands, and from whom there is no deliverance: thus the Lord was both to Israel and Judah, by means of the Assyrians and Babylonians; the former are compared to a lion, that devoured Israel; and the latter to a young lion, that broke the bones of Judah; see Jeremiah 50:17; and last of all by means of the Romans, especially to Judah: I, [EVEN] I, WILL TEAR AND GO AWAY; as a lion tears its prey in pieces it seizes upon, and goes away, and leaves it torn, having satisf

ZECHARIAH; Book of, Introduction, (_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 1:1). _ ZECHARIAH; first vision explained, (_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 1:8). _ ZECHARIAH; symbols explained, (_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 1:8). _ (_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 10:4). _ ZEPHANIAH; Book of, Introduction, (_ See Scofield) - (Zephaniah 1:1). _ ZERUBBABEL; leads remnant to Palestine, ( See Scof

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