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 preceding chapter. YOU]
Priests and court. SNARE] A net laid to entice the people, like birds
in a tra... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.—
HOSEA 5:4. WILL NOT FRAME] Heb. give their doings. Margin, will not
suffer them. They are slaves, not free to turn from evil habits. Their
works stand in the way, prevent them from returning. Habit is a second
nature domineering over men’s thoughts and ways. IN THEM] The
knowledge... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.—
HOSEA 5:5 PRIDE] The haughtiness of Isa. shall be a witness before God
of their folly. Others refer it to Jehovah, the glory of Is., who will
witness by judgments and the destruction of their false glory (ch.
Hosea 7:10; Amos 8:7). JUD.] shall fall, because participating in
Israel’... [ Continue Reading ]
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 enemy is
announced, Jud. is menaced, and Isa. is occupied, destruction is sure
and permanent. T... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.—
HOSEA 5:12. MOTH AND ROTTENNESS] Destructive powers, one injuring
cloths, the other wood and flesh; slowly but surely do they work (Job
13:28). The sinner has foes within and without; conscience gnaws like
a worm, and Divine judgment falls like a plague.
_HOMILETICS_
DESTRUCTION... [ Continue Reading ]
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.] with whom the prophecy
has chiefly to do, sought help and found none from Assyria.
HOSEA 5:14. LIO... [ Continue Reading ]