Hosea 6:6
What meaning of the hosea 6:6 in the Bible?
What does Hosea 6:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings."
What does Hosea 6:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings."
Verse Hosea 6:6. _I DESIRED MERCY, AND NOT SACRIFICE_] I taught them righteousness by my prophets; for I desired mercy. I was more willing to _save_ than to _destroy_; and would rather see them full o...
FOR I DESIRED MERCY AND NOT SACRIFICE - God had said before, that they should “seek” Him “with their flocks and herds, and not find” Him. So here He anticipates their excuses with the same answer wher...
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...
I DESIRED, &C. Compare 1 Samuel 15:22.Ecclesiastes 5:1.Micah 6:8. MERCY. lovingkindness. Quoted in Matthew 9:13; Matthew 12:7. NOT SACRIFICE. Compare Psalms 50:8; Psalms 50:9; Proverbs 21:3.Isaiah 1:
A further explanation of these severe judgments, the moral effect of which the prophet has been considering. _For I desired mercy and not sacrifice_ Rather, FOR I DELIGHT IN PIETY AND NOT IN SACRIFICE...
_REMEMBERING GOD'S COVENANT HOSEA 6:6-8:_ Gomer had broken the covenant that she had made with Hosea. She had become an unfaithful wife treacherous companion. Israel had likewise broken her covenant w...
DISCOURSE: 1156 MERCY BEFORE SACRIFICE Hosea 6:6. _I desired mercy and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings_. THERE is a disposition in every man to substitute external o...
I DESIRED MERCY, AND NOT SACRIFICE— Or, _Rather than sacrifice._ See Matthew 9:13. I think the word חסד _chesed,_ which we translate _mercy,_ is used here in a comprehensive sense; signifying both pie...
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...
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. FOR I DESIRED MERCY - put for piety in general, of which mercy or charity is a branch. The connection of...
6:6 loving-kindness, (b-5) _ Chesed_ , 'goodness.' see ver. 4....
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...
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....
MERCY. — Better rendered, _love._ This passage is richly sustained by our Lord’s adoption of its teaching (Matthew 9:13; Matthew 12:7). Mark 12:33 shows that according to even Old Testament teaching,...
כִּ֛י חֶ֥סֶד חָפַ֖צְתִּי וְ לֹא ־זָ֑בַח וְ דַ֥עַת אֱלֹהִ֖ים מֵ עֹלֹֽות׃...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1; Hosea 9:1; Hosea 10:1; Hosea 11:1; Hosea 12:1; Hosea 13:1;...
“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...
For I desired (f) mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. (f) He shows to what his doctrine was aimed at, that they should unite the obedience of God, and the lo...
_Mercy: sincere piety, ver. 4. --- Sacrifice. They had offered many, chap. v. 6. (Calmet) --- "My victims are the salvation of the faithful, and the conversion of sinners." (St. Jerome) --- Knowledge,...
Our blessed Jesus hath made this scripture memorable by twice quoting it. Matthew 9:13 and again, Matthew 12:7. But it should seem, as if by our Lord's expression on both occasions, the sense of it wa...
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 in this place declares that he desires mercy, and not sacrifices; and he does so to prevent an objections and to anticipate all frivolous pretenses. There is never wanting to hypocrites, we well k...
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...
FOR I DESIRED MERCY, AND NOT SACRIFICE,.... That is, the one rather than the other, as the next clause explains it. Sacrifices were of early use, even before the law of Moses; they were of divine appo...
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. Ver. 6. _For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice_] That is, rather than sacrifice: I prefer the marrow and p...
_For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice_ That is, rather than sacrifice, this being spoken comparatively. I am better pleased with true goodness than with the most exact observance of the external dut...
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...
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...
I so hewed and slew them, because they did not what I most of all required, approved, and could accept of; they were full of sacrifices, and spared them not, but either to idols, or else in formality...
Hosea 6:6 desire H2654 (H8804) mercy H2617 sacrifice H2077 knowledge H1847 God H430 offerings H5930 I desired - 1 Samuel 15:22; Psalms 50:8; Proverbs 21:3; Ecclesiastes 5:1; Isaiah 1:11,...
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...
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...
_For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice._ MERCY AND SACRIFICE NOT CONTRASTS God had Himself, after the fall, enjoined sacrifice to foreshow and plead to Himself the meritorious sacrifice of Christ....
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 6:6 RATHER THAN BURNT OFFERINGS, God desires real participation in the covenant by his people, here expressed as STEADFAST LOVE and KNOWLEDGE OF GOD (see note on Amos 4:4–5). ⇐ ⇔...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 6:6. SAC.] which they brought. MERCY] which they lacked; a comparison by negatives; things less worthy are rejected. Moral obedience is better than ritual offerings (Matthew 9:...
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...
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 Chronicles 28:9; 1 John 2:3; 1 John 3:6; 1 Samuel 15:22; Amos 5:21; Daniel 4:27; Ecclesiastes 5:1; Hosea 4:1; Isaiah 1:11; Isaiah 58:6;...
For — I so hewed and slew them, because they did not what I most of all required; they were full of sacrifices, but either to idols, or else in formality and pride. Mercy — Compassion and charity towa...
Do the prophets disavow the sacrificial system of Moses? PROBLEM: Moses commanded the use of sacrifices in the worship of the Lord, saying, “And you shall burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burn...