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Hosea 5:14

For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion and as a young lion to the house of Judah, who takes hold of his prey and tears it to pieces; I, even I, will tear and go away, as a lion withdrawing to his den; I will take away, and none shall rescue him, for with the Lord's merciful presence removed, there is no hope of deliverance.

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See also Hosea 5:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 5:14. _I_ WILL BE - _AS A LION_] כשחל _cashshachel_, as a _panther_ or _lioness_....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR I WILL BE UNTO EPHRAIM AS A LION - He who would thus strengthen himself by Outward help against God’s chastisements, challenges, as it were, the Almighty to a trial of strength. So then God, unwil...

  • 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

    I WILL. Some codices read "and. will". TAKE AWAY. carry off. HIM. Omit....

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    If a stronger figure is necessary to warn Israel of the destructiveness of his present course, Jehovah will compare himself to a lion (comp. Isaiah 31:4). _as a lion, and as a young lion_ Hebrew has a...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _SEEKING THE LORD -- HOSEA 5:13-15:_ Sadly when the punishment started God's people turned to Assyria for help. How sad, "When Israel and Judah saw their sickness and wounds, Israel asked help from As...

  • 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

    For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him. FOR I WILL BE UNTO EPHRAIM AS A LION,...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    5:14 lion, (k-9) Or 'fierce lion,' as ch. 13.7; Job 4:10 ....

  • 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,...

  • 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

    AS A LION. — First the trans-Jordanic tribes, then additional provinces, and lastly the whole population, were carried away as in the teeth of a beast of prey. (Comp. Amos 3:6.) Assyria is here referr...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֣י אָנֹכִ֤י כַ † שַּׁ֨חַל֙ לְ אֶפְרַ֔יִם...

  • 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,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Lioness. Hebrew and Septuagint, "panther." (Haydock) --- The Assyrians, instead of assisting, proved the ruin of both kingdoms._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    If we read those scriptures spiritually, and with an eye to Christ, (and in this sense will they be particularly profitable), we discover in them the weakness of all human attainments, and all human s...

  • 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

    As I have said, the Prophet confirms this truth, that Israel had recourse in vain to false physicians, when they left God. How so? Because the whole world, were it to favor us, could not yet help us,...

  • 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

    FOR I [WILL BE] UNTO EPHRAIM AS A LION, AND AS A YOUNG LION TO THE HOUSE OF JUDAH,.... Being provoked by their above conduct and behaviour in seeking to others, and not to him, for help, he threatens...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For I [will be] unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, [even] I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue [him]. Ver. 14. _For I will be unto Ephr...

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

    _When Ephraim, saw his sickness_ When the king of Israel, namely, Menahem, saw himself too weak to contend with Pul, king of Assyria, he sent an embassy to him to make him his ally, and, in order to d...

  • 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

    FOR I, the Lord, whose power is infinite, whose wrath they have enkindled, who hath threatened to extirpate them, WILL BE UNTO EPHRAIM AS A LION; a panther, say some, a very swift beast, wherein he ex...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 5:14 lion H7826 Ephraim H669 lion H3715 house H1004 Judah H3063 tear H2963 (H8799) away H3212 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, And as a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away, I will carry off, and there will be none to deliver.' It is now emphasised that it...

  • 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...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    ZECHARIAH; Book of, Introduction, (_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 1:1). _ ZECHARIAH; first vision explained, (_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 1:8). _ ZECHARIAH; symbols explained, ( 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 5:13. SICK.] Not civil war between the two kingdoms, for both were wounded. Apostasy with its train of moral corruptions was the disease of the body politic (Isaiah 1:6). EPH.]...

  • 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

    Amos 2:14; Amos 3:4; Deuteronomy 28:31; Hosea 13:7; Hosea 13:8;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Will tear — Divine vengeance by the Assyrians, shall be as a lion tearing his prey....

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