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Hosea 5:3

I know Israel The pronoun is expressed for emphasis, I who punish Israel am well acquainted with its open and secret sins.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 5:3. _I KNOW EPHRAIM_] I know the whole to be idolaters....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I KNOW EPHRAIM - There is much emphasis on the “I.” It is like our, “I have known,” or “I, I, have known.” God had known him all along, if we may so speak. However deep they may have laid their plans...

  • 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

    EPHRAIM, the largest of the ten tribes, is put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), App-6, for the whole. WHOREDOM. idolatry. See note on Hosea 1:2....

  • 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...

  • 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

    I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled. I KNOW EPHRAIM - the tribe so called, as distinguished from "Israel" here the oth...

  • 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

    I KNOW.. FROM ME] ISRAEL and EPHRAIM are in this book synonymous. The people had corrupted themselves by sins of impurity, but Jehovah had seen it and would punish: cp. Psalms 10:14....

  • 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

    אֲנִי֙ יָדַ֣עְתִּי אֶפְרַ֔יִם וְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֹֽא...

  • 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

    I know (d) Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, [and] Israel is defiled. (d) They boasted themselves not only to be Israelites, but also Ephraimites,...

  • 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

    God shows here that he is not pacified by the vain excuses which hypocrites allege, and by which they think that the judgment of God himself can be turned away. We see what great dullness there is in...

  • 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

    I KNOW EPHRAIM, AND ISRAEL IS NOT HID FROM ME,.... Though they may cover their designs from men, and seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and make plausible pretences for what they do, and p...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, [and] Israel is defiled. Ver. 3. _I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me_] Those that by Ephraim un...

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

    _I know Ephraim_ I am perfectly well acquainted with the actions of Ephraim, the head of the ten tribes; _and Israel is not hid from me_ And the actions of the other nine tribes are no less known to m...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from Me, He was well acquainted with the spirit which possessed them both; FOR NOW, O EPHRAIM, THOU COMMITTEST WHOREDOM, that is, idolatry, AND ISRAEL IS DEFILED,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE ACCUSATION AGAINST THE PRIESTS...

  • 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

    These revolters neither are nor can be so deep as to conceal themselves, their designs, contrivances, and practices, from me; I thoroughly know Ephraim. The revolters are also called ISRAEL in this ve...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 5:3 know H3045 (H8804) Ephraim H669 Israel H3478 hidden H3582 (H8738) Ephraim H669 harlotry H2181 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘I know Ephraim, And Israel is not hid from me, For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot, Israel is defiled. ‘Their doings will not allow them, To turn to their God, For the spirit of whor...

  • 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

    MACCABEES; wars of, (_ See Scofield) - (Malachi 4:6). _ MACEDONIAN; world-empire predicted, (_ See Scofield) - (Daniel 8:1). _ MACEDONIAN; world-empire, end of, ( 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

    _I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from Me._ KNOWLEDGE AS A BASIS OF JUDGMENT To know Ephraim is to know all his shifts, evasions, and cunning devices, all his plots, pretences, and base ends....

  • 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

    1 Kings 12:26; 1 Kings 14:14; Amos 3:2; Deuteronomy 33:17; E

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