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Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, cut to pieces by the punishment of the Lord, because he willingly walked after the commandment, it thought good to follow idol-images, it clung to the calf-worship of Jeroboam throughout its existence.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 5:11. _WALKED AFTER THE COMMANDMENT._] Jeroboam's commandment to worship his calves at Dan and Beth-el. Many of them were not _forced_ to do this, they did it _willingly_....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    EPHRAIM IS OPPRESSED AND BROKEN IN JUDGMENT - Literally, “crushed in judgment.” Holy Scripture, elsewhere also, “combines” these same two words, rendered “oppressed” and “crushed,” in speaking of man’...

  • 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

    Here the immoral cultus is no longer the subject, but the inner moral corruption of the state and its leaders. The parallelism of Judah and Ephraim in this section is remarkable, but seems to be origi...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OPPRESSED AND BROKEN. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:33). WILLINGLY. willfully. WALKED AFTER. followed (perseveringly). THE COMMANDMENT. Note the _Ellipsis_: "the [idolatrous] commandment ...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment_ The same two participles are again combined in Deuteronomy 28:33, and, as here, in connexion with invasion, -thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alwa...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The prophet -in the spirit" sees the threatened trouble bursting upon both the separated kingdoms. In vain will Ephraim seek help from Assyria; there is no deliverance from Jehovah's hand until Ephrai...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _AN OPPORTUNITY TO REPENT -- HOSEA 5:8-12:_ God said, Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin. (Hosea 5:8) Trumpets were used to warn a na...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    EPHRAIM IS OPPRESSED— _Ephraim shall be oppressed, shall be broken in judgment, because it pleased him to walk after vain things._ Houbigant....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDEREBELLION AND TRANSGRESSION TEXT: Hosea 5:8-15 8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: sound an alarm at Beth-aven, behind thee, O Benjamin. 9 Ephraim shall...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment. EPHRAIM IS OPPRESSED AND BROKEN IN JUDGMENT - namely, 'crushed' in the "judgment" of God on him (Hos...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    5:11 man]. (h-16) Or '[of the king].'...

  • 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

    BROKEN IN JUDGMENT] i.e. defeated in his suit and condemned. AFTER THE COMMANDMENT] RM 'after vanity,' i.e. idolatry....

  • 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

    BROKEN IN JUDGMENT. — The Authorised version is probably right in this rendering, the phrase having reference to rights pertaining to individuals. Interpreters differ as to the rare word _tsav,_ trans...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עָשׁ֥וּק אֶפְרַ֖יִם רְצ֣וּץ מִשְׁפָּ֑ט כִּ֣י הֹואִ֔יל...

  • 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

    Ephraim [is] oppressed [and] broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the (l) commandment. (l) That is, after King Jeroboam's commandment, and did not rather follow God....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Oppression. Literally, "calumny." (Haydock) (Isaias lii. 4.) --- The Assyrians had no just reason for attacking Israel, though their crimes called for punishment (Calmet) from God. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Prophet Hosea useth many similitudes, in order to convey yet more forcibly his divine truths; but the whole of what is here said, is much to one and the same purpose; namely, the defection of Isra...

  • 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

    Here again the Prophet shows that the vengeance of God would be just against Israel, because they willingly followed the impious edicts of their king. The people might indeed have appeared to be excus...

  • 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

    EPHRAIM [IS] OPPRESSED, [AND] BROKEN IN JUDGMENT,.... Here the prophet again returns to the ten tribes, who were oppressed and broken, either by their own judgments, as the Targum; by the tyranny of t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Ephraim [is] oppressed [and] broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment. Ver. 11. _Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment_] _Calumniam passus est Ephraim,_ so the Vulg...

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

    _Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment_ He is delivered over to oppressors by God's just judgment. Such were Pul and Tiglath-pileser, kings of Assyria. Archbishop Newcome distinguishes between t...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-15 The destruction of impenitent sinners is not mere talk, to frighten them, it is a sentence which will not be recalled. And it is a mercy that we have timely warning given us, that we may flee fr...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    EPHRAIM; the subjects of the kingdom of Israel, the ten tribes; the prophet resumeth his threat against them. IS OPPRESSED; supposing, as well we may, that this prophecy respecteth Ahaz's time, it wil...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 5:11 Ephraim H669 oppressed H6231 (H8803) broken H7533 (H8803) judgment H4941 willingly H2974 (H8689) walked...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    EPHRAIM ARE TO PREPARE FOR AN INVASION WHICH WILL LEAD TO THEIR DESOLATION WHILST JUDAH WILL BE PUNISHED FOR TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION TO SEIZE LAND. BOTH WILL SUFFER AS A CONSEQUENCE. MEANWHI...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Ephraim is oppressed, He is crushed in judgment, Because he was content to walk, After man's command.' The spotlight turns back on Ephraim (Israel). They are being oppressed, they are being crushe...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    UNBELIEVERS; subject to demon possession, (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 7:22). _ UNLEAVENED; bread, feast of, (_ See Scofield) - (Leviticus 23:6). _ "UNTIL,"; the three of Israel, ( 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 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 5:8. The evil denounced is vividly described as actually come. HOSEA 5:9. SHALL SURELY BE] Lit. established or well grounded in God’s purpose. On lofty summits the invasion of...

  • 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

    1 Kings 12:26; 2 Kings 15:16; 2 Kings 15:29; Amos 5:11; Amos 5:12;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Ephraim — The ten tribes are by seditions, civil wars, unjust sentences, and bloody conspiracies eaten up already. After the commandment — To forbear going to the temple, and to worship the calves at...

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