Hosea 5:2

Hosea 5:2

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.

5 The ^apride of Israel testifies to his face;
Therefore Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;
Judah also stumbles with them.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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revolters—apostates.

profound—deeply rooted [CALVIN] and sunk to the lowest depths, excessive in their idolatry (Hosea 9:9; Isaiah 31:6) [HENDERSON]. From the antithesis (Hosea 5:3), "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 Beth-el, 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 (compare Isaiah 29:15).

to . . . slaughter—He does not say "to sacrifice," for their so-called sacrifices were butcheries rather than sacrifices; there was nothing sacred about them, being to idols instead of to the holy God.

though—MAURER translates, "and (in spite of their hope of safety through their slaughter of victims to idols) I will be a chastisement to them all." English Version is good sense: They have deeply revolted, notwithstanding all my prophetical warnings.

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