Hosea 5:2

And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all. AND THE REVOLTERS - apostates. ARE PROFOUND - deeply-rooted (Calvin), and sunk to the lowest depths; excessive in their idolatry (; ). (Henderson.) From the antithesis (), "not hid from me." I prefer explaining, profoundly cunning in their idolatry. Jeroboam thought it a profound piece of policy to set up golden calves to represent God in Dan and Bethel, in order to prevent Israel's heart from turning again to David's line by going up to Jerusalem to worship. So Israel's subsequent. idolatry was grounded by their leaders on various pleas of state expediency (cf....

The verb שחט, _shecheth, _means, to kill, to sacrifice; and this place is usually explained of sacrifices; and this opinion I do not reject. But though the Prophet spake of sacrifices, he no doubt called sacrificing, in contempt, killing: as though one should call the temple, the shambles, and the killing of victims, slaughtering, so also the Prophet says, _In sacrificing and killing, they, having turned aside, have become deeply fixed; _that is, By turning aside to their own sacrificing, they have completely hardened their hearts, so that their depravity is incurable. For by saying that they had gone deep, the meaning is, that they were so addicted to their own superstitions, that they could not be restored to a sound mind, however often admonished by the Prophets. Yet this verb has another meaning in Scripture, even this, that men flatter themselves with their own counsels, and think t...

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 sins. And as Judah was treading in the same steps, they would fall with Israel. By dealing treacherously with the Lord, men only deceive themselves. Those that go to seek the Lord with their flocks and their herds only, and not with their hearts and souls, cannot expect to find him; nor shall any speed who do not seek the Lord while he may be found. See how much it is our concern to seek God early, now, while it is the accepted time, and the day of salvation....

Verse Hosea 5:2. _THE REVOLTERS ARE PROFOUND TO MAKE SLAUGHTER_] Here may be a reference to the practice of _hunters_, making _deep pits_ in the ground, and lightly covering them over, that the beasts, not discovering them, might fall in, and become a prey. _THOUGH I_ HAVE BEEN _A REBUKER_] "I will bring _chastisement_ on them all." As they have made _victims_ of others to their _idolatry_, I will make _victims_ of them to my _justice_. Some have thought that as many as wished to depart from the idolatrous worship set up by Jeroboam, were _slaughtered_; and thus _Jeroboam the son of Nebat_ _MADE Israel to sin_....

AND THE REVOLTERS ARE PROFOUND TO MAKE SLAUGHTER - Literally, “They made the slaughter deep,” as Isaiah says, “they deeply corupted themselves” Isaiah 31:6; and our old writers say “He smote deep.” They willed also doubtless to “make it deep,” hide it so deep, that God should never know it, as the Psalmist says of the ungodly, “that the inward self and heart of the worker’s of iniquity is deep,” whereon it follows, that God should “suddenly wound them,” as here the prophet subjoins that God rebuked them. Actual and profuse murder has been already Hosea 4:2 mentioned as one of the common sins of Israel, and it is afterward Hosea 6:9 also charged upon the priests. Though I 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

AND THE REVOLTERS ARE PROFOUND TO MAKE SLAUGHTER,.... The revolters are the king, priests, and people, who had revolted from the true worship and ways of God unto idolatry. These formed deep laid schemes, and took crafty methods, like hawkers; who lay themselves flat upon the ground to manage their snares and nets, and observe the creatures that fall into them, and take them, and whom they artfully decoy, to which the allusion is; and that either to slay those who would not comply with their false worship; or rather to multiply the sacrifices of slain beasts, and offer them with a great show of devotion and religion, and thereby beguile, entice, and ensnare simple and unwary souls; so the Targum, "they sacrifice to idols abundantly;'' and which, in the sight of God, was mere slaughter and butchery: THOUGH I [HAVE BEEN] A REBUKER OF THEM ALL; king, priests, and prophets; those idolater...

LAMB; type of Christ, (_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 4:4). _ LAMENTATIONS; Book of, Introduction, (_ See Scofield) - (Lamentations 1:1). _ LAMENTATIONS; literary form of, p.836 (_ See Scofield) - (Lamentations 3:1). _ LAVER; typical meaning, (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 30:18). _ LAW; and grace in allegory, (_ See Scofield) - (Galatians 4:19). _ LAW; and grac

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

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 cultus) at the sanctuaries Mizpah (in Gilead probably), Tabor and Shittim (Hosea 5:2 corrected text) are mentioned as the scenes of such worship. A spirit of whoredom in the literal sense of the word (_cf. Hosea 4:12_) animates them, and the brazen pride with which they pursue their evil course condemns them. When Israel and Judah fall as fall they must they will seek in vain to propitiate Yahweh with sacrifices from their flocks and herds; He has withdrawn Himself from a generation who are not His, but bastards ...