Hosea 5 - Introduction
_GOD'S JUDGMENTS AGAINST THE PRIESTS, THE PEOPLE, AND THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL, FOR THEIR MANIFOLD SINS, UNTIL THEY REPENT._ _Before Christ 780._... [ Continue Reading ]
_GOD'S JUDGMENTS AGAINST THE PRIESTS, THE PEOPLE, AND THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL, FOR THEIR MANIFOLD SINS, UNTIL THEY REPENT._ _Before Christ 780._... [ Continue Reading ]
HEAR THIS, O PRIESTS— We may collect from this passage, that there was on Mizpah, beyond Jordan, and upon Tabor, on this side of it, either golden calves or other idols, whose worship was favoured by the great men of Israel. The rabbies tell us, that Jeroboam placed _garrisons_ at Tabor and Mizpah,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE REVOLTERS ARE PROFOUND, &C.— _Have gone deep in slaughter: I will call them all to discipline._ Calmet. The Hebrew word שׂטים _setiim,_ which we translate _the revolters,_ signifies _scouts on horseback,_ attendants on the chace, whose business it was to scour the country all around, and dri... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY WILL NOT FRAME THEIR DOINGS— _They will not give their thoughts,_ or _minds._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE PRIDE— _The arrogance of Israel is discovered in his countenance._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SHALL GO WITH THEIR FLOCKS, &C.— They shall run up and down, from altar to altar, with all their stock, as if they could buy off their sins and redeem their sorrows by hecatombs and holocausts. They think that they have merited better at the hands of Jehovah by their thousands of rams and ten t... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THEY HAVE BEGOTTEN, &C.— By their alliance with strange women, contrary to the law. Or, it may have a spiritual allusion to their vices and deviations. Instead of, _Now shall a month,_ &c. Houbigant reads, _Now shall the canker consume their inheritance._ Some, however, understand it as alluding... [ Continue Reading ]
BLOW YE THE CORNET IN GIBEAH— _Lo! the cornet is sounded in Gibeah; and the trumpet in Ramah: howlings are heard at Beth-aven, behind thee, O Benjamin._ Houbigant. The prophet here declares the approach of the Assyrian, in the same animated style and manner as Isaiah, chap. Isaiah 10:28, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
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, if he reject them: so that Ephraim shall have nothing to say, why he should not be desolated; yea,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PRINCES OF JUDAH, &C.— "They have violated the most sacred laws of the Almighty, upon which not only the ordinances of his worship, but also the rights and properties of men depend; and are become guilty of the same injustice and confusion with those who remove the ancient land-marks." See Ezeki... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHRAIM IS OPPRESSED— _Ephraim shall be oppressed, shall be broken in judgment, because it pleased him to walk after vain things._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE WILL I BE UNTO EPHRAIM AS A MOTH— A moth in the garment, a worm in the flesh. From small and unperceived beginnings, working a slow, but certain and complete destruction.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN EPHRAIM SAW HIS SICKNESS, &C.— Houbigant translates this verse throughout in the future. _Ephraim shall see,—shall go,_ &c. and instead of _king Jareb,_ he reads, _to the king his avenger;_ meaning the _Assyrian,_ Tiglath-Pileser, before mentioned.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL GO, AND RETURN, &C.— "I will give them up to exile, and withdraw myself, till with a sincere humiliation they implore my favour." The Chaldee expresses the sense in the. following manner: "I will take away my majestic presence from among them, and will return into heaven." REFLECTIONS.—1st,... [ Continue Reading ]