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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 4:15

Let.. offend] Hosea appeals to Judah not to imitate Israel's sins. Gilgal (that of Benjamin: cp. 1 Samuel 13:8) and Bethel ('house of God,' here contemptuously called Bethaven, 'house of vanity,' i.e. idolatry) were two of the most important Israelitish sanctuaries: see Amos 4:4; Amos 4:5. The latter had been a sanctuary since the days of Jacob (Genesis 28:22; Genesis 35:1; Judges 21:2). Nor swear.. liveth] Hosea is here condemning the use of Jehovah's name in oaths, because that name has been so profaned by its association with idolatrous symbols.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 4:15. _LET NOT JUDAH OFFEND_] Israel was _totally_ dissolute; Judah was not so. Here she is exhorted to maintain her integrity. If the former will go to what was once _Beth-el_, the _hous...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LET NOT JUDAH OFFEND - The sentence of Israel had been pronounced; she had been declared incorrigible. The prophet turns from her now to Judah. Israel had abandoned God’s worship, rejected or corrupte...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    II. THE MESSAGE OF EXPOSTULATION, JUDGMENT, AND MERCY CHAPTER 4 The Lord's Controversy with His People _ 1. The condition of the people (Hosea 4:1) _ 2. The loss of their priestly relation (Hosea 4...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE UTTER CORRUPTION OF THE NATION TRACED TO IRRELIGION. (The text of Hosea 4:15 is hopelessly corrupt. Marti regards Hosea 4:3 as an insertion and Hosea 4:5_ a_ as foreign to their present context.)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HARLOT. wanton. Not the same word as in Hosea 4:14, though the symbol is similar. JUDAH. Compare Hosea 1:7. GILGAL. Jeroboam had erected an idolatrous temple there. See Hosea 9:15;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Judah is cautioned not to fall into the same ruin as Israel, of which a deterrent picture is given....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _offend_ Rather, BECOME GUILTY, viz. by participation in Israel's idolatry. _come not ye unto Gilgal_ Gilgal was one of the chief seats of the idolatrous worship of the north, see Hosea 9:15; Hosea 12...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _A GOD THAT CANNOT ANSWER -- HOSEA 4:12-15:_ The children of Israel were asking counsel from their wooden idols and other objects of wood. Their sinful living had lead them to terrible judgment; think...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THOUGH THOU, ISRAEL, &C.— Here a transition is made, with great elegance and animation, from the general subject of the whole people, in both its branches, to the kingdom of the ten tribes in particul...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDEJUDAH IS TO DEPART FROM HER TEXT: Hosea 4:15-19 15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth. THOUGH THOU, ISRAEL, PLAY THE HARLOT, YET LET...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    4:15 Beth-aven, (f-21) Meaning, 'House of idols,' or 'of iniquity' -- irony for _ Beth-El_ , 'House of God.' see Amos 5:5 ....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ISRAEL... JUDAH. — The prophet warns Judah of Israel’s peril, and perhaps hints at the apostacy of some of her kings, as Ahaziah, Joram, and Ahaz. He returns _to_ the symbolic use of the word “whoredo...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אִם ־זֹנֶ֤ה אַתָּה֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אַל ־יֶאְשַׁ֖ם...

  • 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

    “JOINED TO IDOLS” Hosea 4:11-19 The prophet does not mince his words in describing the morals of his time. We are reminded of Bunyan's words: “My original and inward pollution was my plague. It was a...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In any attempt to analyze and tabulate the teaching in this second division of the Book it must be remembered that the prophetic utterances cannot be treated as verbatim reports. As they here appear,...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, [yet] (r) let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto (s) Gilgal, neither go ye up to (t) Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth. (r) God complains that Judah is in...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Offend. It was more culpable for Juda to commit idolatry (as they had the temple, &c., of the true God) than for Israel, whom Jeroboam hindered from going to Jerusalem, after he had set up his golden...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I beg the Reader to observe, for I think it is very observable, and very blessed it is in the observance, what sweet minglings of grace is here amidst the solemn and awful account the Lord gives of hi...

  • 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

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet here complains that Judah also was infected with superstitions, though the Lord had hitherto wonderfully kept them from pollutions of this kind. He compares Israel with Judah, as though he...

  • 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

    THOUGH THOU, ISRAEL, PLAY THE HARLOT, YET LET NOT JUDAH OFFEND,.... That is, though the Israelites, the people of the ten tribes, committed adultery, both corporeal and spiritual, in their idolatrous...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, [yet] let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth. Ver. 15. _Though thou, Israel, play the harlot...

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

    _Though_, &c. “Here,” says Bishop Horsley, “a transition is made, with great elegance and animation, from the general subject of the whole people, in both its branches, to the kingdom of the ten tribe...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, in such blasphemous adultery and idolatry, YET LET NOT JUDAH OFFEND, for the members of this nation were still trying to maintain the Lord's worship; AND COME NOT...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SECOND PART OF THE ACCUSATION...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-19 The people consulted images, and not the Divine word. This would lead to disorder and sin. Thus men prepare scourges for themselves, and vice is spread through a people. Let not Judah come near...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    This summeth up the sins, the idolatries of the ten tribes; and is a transition to what next follows; either by way of exhortation, or admonition, or prayer and wish, for the two tribes which stuck to...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 4:15 Israel H3478 harlot H2181 (H8802) Judah H3063 offend H816 (H8799) come H935 (H8799) Gilgal...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Though you, Israel, play the harlot, yet let Judah not offend, and do not come to Gilgal, nor go you up to Beth-aven, nor swear, “As YHWH lives”.' Within the prophet's heart was always a fear that Ju...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    STRONG WINE AND ILLICIT SEX HAVE TURNED THE PEOPLE'S MINDS SO THAT THEY LOOK TO BITS OF WOOD CONCERNING THEIR FUTURE AND PLAY THE HARLOT ON THE TOPS OF MOUNTAINS AND UNDER SACRED TREES RATHER THAN LOO...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    FAITH; new household of, (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 12:46). _ FAITH; justification by, (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:26). _ FAITH; justification by, illustrated, ( See Scofield) - ...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Charges against Israel for their sinfulness, idolatry and ignorance. CHARACTERS: God, Hosea. CONCLUSION: It is a sad and sore judgment for men when God has to say, «let them alone» giving...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Hosea 4:1. _Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel._ Here a new sermon is built upon a new revelation. Hosea 4:2. _Blood toucheth blood,_ as explained in the words preseding, adultery upon a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 4:15 Judah is warned not to follow Israel’s example, though eventually Judah did. Several shrines that might entice Judah are named. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 4:15. COME NOT] by pilgrimages to places of idolatrous worship. SWEAR NOT] in temples of idols. “The confession of Jehovah is hypocrisy in the mouth of an idolater; pretended p...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION HOSEA 4:1 A new and distinct division of the book commences with this fourth chapter and continues till the close. What had previously been presented in figure and symbol is now plainly an...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now we enter into the second part of the book of Hosea, where he declares: HEAR the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land (Hsa Hosea...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 12:28; 1 Kings 12:29; 2 Kings 17:18; 2 Kings 17:19; Amos 4:4;

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Offend — Commit like sins. Gilgal — Gilgal was chosen by Jeroboam, or by succeeding idolaters for the solemn worship of their idols. Beth — aven — Beth — el, where Jacob lodged, who called it Beth — e...

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