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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Hosea 5:2

Depth, or pits of fire, where victims were sometimes thrown. (Iphigen.) (Grotius) --- By substituting th for t, we might read, "they have dug pits to take them," chap. ix. 9., and Josue xxiii 13. (Calmet) --- Idolatry leads to the abyss. (Haydock)

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See also Hosea 5:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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.” Th...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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:...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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 cult...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    REVOLTERS. apostates. ARE PROFOUND TO MAKE SLAUGHTER. have deeply designed. slaughter. THOUGH. HAVE BEEN, &C.. and. [will denounce] chastisement to them all. The _Ellipsis_ thus supplied explains "t...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And the revolters are profound to make slaughter_ The expressions used have a most un-Hebraic cast, and what can the -slaughter" refer to? There is nothing at all in the context to suggest that the s...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A personal arraignment of the priesthood (accused less directly in chap. 4) and of the court, who, instead of warning the people, have led them into the snare of sin. So entangled are they in it that...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _ISRAEL IS DEFILED -- HOSEA 5:1-4:_ It was the duty of the priest to lead the people into worship of the true God. Instead they set a snare and got the people caught in the snare of idolatry. At Mizpa...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THE REVOLTERS ARE PROFOUND, &C.— _Have gone deep in slaughter: I will call them all to discipline._ Calmet. The Hebrew word שׂטים _setiim,_ which we translate _the revolters,_ signifies _scouts on...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDEREBELLION AND TRANSGRESSION TEXT: Hosea 5:1-7 1 Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king; for unto you pertaineth the judgment;...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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; ex...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    5:2 apostasy, (c-10) Or '[with] sacrifices do they go far (or deeply) in revolt.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PREDICTIONS OF PUNISHMENT The priests, the people, and the royal dynasty have alike sinned, and will alike be punished. Their coquetting with Assyria will prove utterly futile. Judah has also sinned,...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ARE PROFOUND.. SLAUGHTER] lit. 'have gone deep to slaughter,' i.e. have committed horrible slaughter. It refers probably to the violence of political factions: cp. Hosea 7:7. THOUGH I _have been_] RV...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 5 THE *LORD IS ANGRY WITH *PRIESTS V1 ‘Listen to this, you *priests! Be careful how you listen, people of Israel! Listen, you t...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ARE PROFOUND TO MAKE SLAUGHTER. — Ewald, followed recently by Nowack, is right in interpreting the Heb. text as meaning, “The apostates have gone deep in iniquity.” In the last clause the Authorised v...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שַׁחֲטָ֥ה שֵׂטִ֖ים הֶעְמִ֑יקוּ וַ אֲנִ֖י מ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    2. PRIESTS AND PRINCES FAIL Hosea 5:1 The line followed in this paragraph is almost parallel to that of chapter 4, running out to a prospect of invasion. But the charge is directed solely against th...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S REBUKE OF APOSTASY Hosea 5:1-15 The prophet continues his grave indictment of his people. The court and the priesthood were chiefly responsible for the awful degeneracy that was eating out the...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Having thus declared the cause of pollution, the prophet's next message was especially addressed to priest, people, and king. First to the priests and the king as elders, and consequently responsible,...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And the revolters are profound to make (b) slaughter, though I [have been] a (c) rebuker of them all. (b) Even though they seemed to be given altogether to holiness, and to sacrifices which here he c...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    It should seem, that in the days of the Prophet, such was the general defect in the pure worship of the God of Israel, that even the priests and the great men openly opposed the truth. Mizpah and Tabo...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    V. HOSEA 5:2 (NASB) AND THE REVOLTERS HAVE GONE DEEP IN DEPRAVITY, BUT I WILL CHASTISE ALL OF THEM. VI. Hosea 5:15 (NASB) I WILL GO AWAY [AND] RETURN TO MY PLACE UNTIL THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR GUILT AN...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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 cal...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 AND 5. In chapter 4 we see that the prophet addresses the whole people together. In Verse 15 (Hosea 4:15) he distinguishes Judah from Israel, warning the fo...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 sche...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I [have been] a rebuker of them all. Ver. 2. _And the revolters are profound to make slaughter_] They lay their nets and snares deep, and lie...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And the revolters_ Hebrew, שׂשׂים, _declinantes_, the persons declining, turning aside, and departing out of the way appointed them to walk in, _are profound to make slaughter_ Or, _have gone deep in...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, literally, "and into the corrupt doings of excesses they have sunken deeply," so that the leaders, in their open rebellion against the Lord have carri...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE ACCUSATION AGAINST THE PRIESTS...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THOUGH: Or, and, etc. A REBUKER: _ Heb._ a correction...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 sin...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE REVOLTERS; all those that have cast off the law of God, both in matters of religion and civil government. ARE PROFOUND; dig deep to hide their counsels, or have taken deep root since their apostas...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 5:2 revolters H7846 involved H6009 (H8689) slaughter H7819 (H8800) rebuke H4148 the revolters - Hosea

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And those who err (shettim = rebels, swervers, wanderers) are gone deep in slaughter, And I am a rebuker (correcter, chastener) of them all.' Here we have explained the reason why they were seen as...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JUDGMENT IS ANNOUNCED ON THE PRIESTS, PEOPLE AND ROYAL HOUSE OF ISRAEL BECAUSE OF THEIR GOING ASTRAY IN THEIR RITUAL, SOMETHING WHICH HAS PREVENTED THEM FROM TURNING TO YHWH AND HAS MADE THEM UNACCEPT...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    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) - ...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jehovah's face withdrawn from Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: There is a time when Jehovah will not be found when it is time for His judgments to fall on a rebellious, sinful people....

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Hosea 5:1. _Ye have been a snare and a net spread upon Tabor._ This was a high mountain of Galilee, in the lot of Zebulon, called by the Greeks Itabyricum, having a plain on the top. Idolatry has ever...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The revolters are profound to make slaughter._ THE DEEP WAYS OF APOSTATES AND FALSE WORSHIPPERS There can be no blacker brand on a people or a man than this--he is an apostate, a revolter. We must...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 5:1 Israel’s rulers have led the way into unfaithfulness. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 5:1. HEAR] A fresh beginning of reproof, connected with chapter 4, addressed to the priests, the royal family, and the whole kingdom. JUDG.] Lit. _the_ judgment announced in pre...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we begin tonight with chapter 5. In chapter 5, Hosea the prophet speaks for the Lord unto the priests and unto the princes of Israel, unto the house of the king. Hear ye this, O priests; hearke...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 23:12; Amos 4:6; Hosea 6:5; Hosea 6:9; Hosea 9:15;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The revolters — All those that have cast off the law of God. Profound — Dig deep to hide their counsels, and to slay the innocent. Though I — Hosea....

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