Hosea 6:7

But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. BUT THEY, LIKE MEN, HAVE TRANSGRESSED THE COVENANT - the common sort of men (, "Ye shall die like men"). The margin has it, 'like Adam' (). However, the expression "covenant" is not found elsewhere applied to Adam's relation to God; though the thing seems implied (Romans 5:12, "As by one man's disobedience many were made sinners,"). "As in Adam all die" (). Israel "transgressed the covenant" of God as lightly as men break everyday compacts with their fellow-men. There have they dealt treacherously against me...

God then subjoins a complaint, — _But they like men have transgressed the covenant; there have they dealt treacherously against me_. Here God shows that the Israelites boasted in vain of their sacrifices and of all the pomps of their external worship, for God did not regard these external things, but only wished to exercise the faithful in spiritual worship. Then the import of the whole is this, “My design was, when I appointed the sacrifices and the whole legal worship, to lead you so to myself, that there might be nothing carnal or earthly in your sacrificing; but ye have corrupted the whole law; you have been perverse interpreters; for sacrifices have been nothing else among you but mockery as if it were a satisfaction to me to have an ox or a ram killed. You have then transgressed my covenant; and it is nothing that the people say to me, that they have diligently performed the outwar...

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 the Lord sent awful messages by the prophets. The word of God will be the death either of the sin or of the sinner. God desired mercy rather than sacrifice, and that knowledge of him which produces holy fear and love. This exposes the folly of those who trust in outward observances, to make up for their want of love to God and man. As Adam broke the covenant of God in paradise, so Israel had broken his national covenant, notwithstanding all the favours they received. Judah also was ripe for Divine judgments. May the Lord put his fear into our hearts, and set up his kingdom within us, and never leave us to ourselves, nor suffer us to be overcome by temptation....

Verse Hosea 6:7. _BUT THEY LIKE MEN_ (כאדם keadam, "like Adam") _HAVE_ _TRANSGRESSED THE COVENANT_] They have sinned against light and knowledge as _he_ did. This is _sense_, the other is scarcely so. There was a striking similarity in the two cases. _Adam, in_ _Paradise_, transgressed the commandment, and I _cast him out:_ _Israel_, in possession of the _promised land_, transgressed my covenant, and I cast _them_ out, and sent them into captivity....

BUT THEY LIKE MEN - Or (better as in the E. M) “like Adam, have transgressed the covenant.” As Adam our first parent, in Paradise, not out of any pressure, but wantonly, through self-will and pride, broke the covenant of God, eating the forbidden fruit, and then defended himself in his sin against God, casting the blame upon the woman: so these, in the good land which God had given them, “that they should” therein “keep His covenant and observe His laws” Psalms 105:44, wantonly and petulantly broke that covenant; and then obstinately defended their sin. Wherefore, as Adam was cast out of Paradise, so shall these be cast out of the land of promise. THERE HAVE THEY DEALT TREACHEROUSLY AGAINST ME - There! He does not say, “where.” But Israel and every sinner in Israel knew full well, where. “There,” to Israel, was not

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 foregoing sentiments is indicated by the ancient versions—Chaldee and Septuagint, the LXX; for example, inserting λέγοντες, as if the reading had been לֵאסֹר: This (1) represents the Israelites exhorting one another in that good time which the prophet encourages them to expect. But (2) it may be regarded as the prophet's own exhortation to the exiles; their affliction urging them to seek the Lord, and their encouragement consisting in the knowledge of his ability and willingness to heal the wounds which his own hand had inflicted....

BUT THEY, LIKE MEN, HAVE TRANSGRESSED THE COVENANT,.... The false prophets, as Aben Ezra, whom he threatened to cut off and slay, Hosea 6:5; or rather Ephraim and Judah, whose goodness was so fickle and unstable; and who, instead of doing acts of mercy, and seeking after the true knowledge of God and his worship, which are preferable to all sacrifices, they transgressed the law of God, which they promised at Mount Sinai to obey; the precepts of the moral law, even of both tables, which concern both God and man; and also the ceremonial law, by appointing priests to sacrifice who were not of the tribe of Levi, as did Ephraim or the ten tribes under Jeroboam; and by offering sacrifices to their calves, and by not observing the solemn feasts; and the precepts relating to both these laws constitute the covenant made with the children of Israel at Sinai,...

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 people whom He loves. After the brief glimpse given of their great future of glory we are brought back into the days of Moses. The Lord grieves and mourns over His people whom He loves, who today are still beloved for the Father's sake Romans 9:1. But while He loved them, their love was like the morning cloud, like the dew, vanishing soon away. The morning cloud looks beautiful, gilded by the rays of the rising sun, but it quickly di

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 real loyalty, not for a hollow ritual of sacrifices (Hosea 6:4). Examples of the anarchy and crime that prevail, involving even the priests in the charge of murder and immorality, are given, demonstrating Israel's utter corruption, Judah also (Hosea 6:11_ a_, if this is not a gloss) being involved (Hosea 6:7_ a)._ Every attempt to heal the disease only reveals how deep-seated and

LIKE MEN. Hebrew like Adam. MEN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14. Compare Job 31:33.Psalms 49:12; Psalms 82:7. TRANSGRESSED. rebelled. Heb _'abar_. App-44. THE COVENANT. See Joshua 24:1; Joshua 24:25....