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Hosea 5:9

Ephraim, the entire country of the ten tribes, shall be desolate in the day of rebuke, namely, when the Lord's punishment would strike them; among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be, continuous plagues, a lasting punishment. Cf Deuteronomy 28:59.

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See also Hosea 5:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 5:9. _AMONG THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL HAVE I MADE KNOWN_] They have got sufficient warning; it is their own fault that they have not taken it....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    EPHRAIM SHALL BE DESOLATE - It shall not be lightly rebuked, nor even more grievously chastened; it shall not simply be wasted by famine, pestilence, and the sword; it shall be not simply desolate, bu...

  • 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...

  • 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

    _rebuke_ Rather, PUNISHMENT, as the same word is rendered Psalms 149:7 A.V. -punishments upon the people(s)." The root meaning of the word is -judicial decision." _among the tribes of Israel_ i.e. Is...

  • 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 SHALL BE DESOLATE IN THE DAY OF REBUKE— God has his day of sharp rebukes or chidings for every impenitent sinner; in which sufficient arguments shall be used to render him utterly inexcusable,...

  • 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 shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. EPHRAIM ... JUDAH. - Israel is referred to in Hosea 5:9, Judah in Hosea 5:1...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֶפְרַ֨יִם֙ לְ שַׁמָּ֣ה תִֽהְיֶ֔ה בְּ יֹ֖ום ת

  • 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 shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made (i) known that which shall surely be. (i) By the success they will know that I have surely determined this....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _That. Literally, "faith," (Haydock) that my word shall come to pass._...

  • 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 the Prophet asserts, without any figure, that their chastisement would not be slight or paternal, but that God would punish the Israelites as they deserved, that he would reduce them to nothing....

  • 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 SHALL HE DESOLATE IN THE DAY OF REBUKE,.... The country of the ten tribes shall be laid desolate, the inhabitants of them destroyed either by the sword, or famine, or pestilence, and the rest...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. Ver. 9. _Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke_] _Correptionis, vel C...

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

    _Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah_, &c. The prophet here calls upon the watchmen of Judah and Israel to sound an alarm, and give notice of the approach of the enemy: compare Joel 2:1. It was usual in thos...

  • 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 whole kingdom of the ten tribes, all sorts and ranks of men among them. SHALL BE DESOLATE; a desolation, i. e. most desolate, utterly cut off. IN THE DAY OF REBUKE; when Shalmaneser shall...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 5:9 Ephraim H669 desolate H8047 day H3117 rebuke H8433 tribes H7626 Israel H3478 known H3045 (H8689) sure...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke, Among the tribes of Israel have I made known what will surely be.' The consequence of the invasion, and the certainty of those consequences, is...

  • 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

    SABBATH; and first day, (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 12:1). _ SABBATH; given to man, (_ See Scofield) - (Nehemiah 9:14). _ SABBATH; the, Summary, ( 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

    _Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke._ THE LORD’S ANGER “Desolate” may be reckoned with energetic adjectives. It was another form of the word that the prophet used; it was a substantive, c...

  • 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

    Amos 3:14; Amos 3:15; Amos 3:7; Amos 7:17; Amos 7:9;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Ephraim — The whole kingdom of the ten tribes. Rebuke — When Salmaneser shall besiege, sack and captivate all thy cities, rebuked for their sins. Of Israel — To the house of Israel openly. Made known...

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