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Hosea 5:2
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Impending Judgment on Israel and Judah

1 “Hear this, O priests!
Take heed, O house of Israel!
Give ear, O house of the king!
For1 yours is the judgment,
Because ayou have been a snare to Mizpah
And a net spread on Tabor. 
2 The revolters are adeeply involved in slaughter,
Though I rebuke them all. 
3 aI know Ephraim,
And Israel is not hidden from Me;
For now, O Ephraim, byou commit harlotry;
Israel is defiled. 
4 “They1 do not direct their deeds
Toward turning to their God,
For athe spirit of harlotry is in their midst,
And they do not know the Lord. 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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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.




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Hosea 5:2:

Hosea 1:2

 

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