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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 6:9

In the way by consent] RV 'in the way toward Shechem.' At Shechem also, as we know from Joshua 24:1, there was an ancient sanctuary. In the time of Jeroboam I it was the capital of the northern kingdom. Hosea here appears to refer to some definite act of robbery and murder in which some priests were actually implicated.

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See also Hosea 6:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 6:9. _AS TROOPS OF ROBBERS_] What a sad picture is this of the state of the priesthood! The country of Gilead was infamous for its robberies and murders. The idolatrous priests there forme...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND AS TROOPS OF ROBBERS WAIT FOR A MAN, SO THE COMPANY OF PRIESTS MURDER IN THE WAY BY CONSENT - Or (more probably) “in the way to Shechem.” Shechem too was a “city of refuge” John 20:7, and so also...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 6:4-11 Divine Mourning over Ephraim and Judah _ 1. What shall I do to thee? (Hosea 6:4) _ 2. Their transgression (Hosea 6:7) Hosea 6:4. The Lord grieves and mourns over the condition of the...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    HOSEA 6:4 TO HOSEA 7:2. ISRAEL'S MORAL CONDITION HOPELESSLY CORRUPT. The shallow expressions of loyalty by the fickle people mean nothing, and cannot avert Yahweh's inevitable judgment. He looks for r...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TROOPS. gangs. BY CONSENT. towards Sichem, as in Genesis 37:14. SICHEM (like "Gilead", Hosea 6:8) was. city of priests (Joshua 21:21). COMMIT LEWDNESS: i.e. practice idolatry. Jeroboam built Shechem...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Two spots of specially ill fame are singled out Gilead and the road to Shechem....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And as troops_ Rather, AND AS BANDITS LYING IN WAIT, (SO DOTH) THE COMPANY OF PRIESTS; THEY MURDER ON THE ROAD TOWARDS SHECHEM; YEA, THEY COMMIT OUTRAGES. The reference in the figure is either to the...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _RETURNING THE COVENANT OF GOD'S PEOPLE HOSEA 6:9-11:_ Both Israel and Judah had become very corrupt. Instead of helping the hurting they had become a “troop of robbers” waiting to harm some individua...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SO THE COMPANY OF PRIESTS MURDER, &C.— _So the company of priests meet together, and murder the traveller at Shechem; that they may execute their wickedness._ The prophet seems to mean that wickedness...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDEHER INCONSTANCY TEXT: Hosea 6:1-11 1 Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days wil...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. AND AS TROOPS OF ROBBERS WAIT FOR A MAN, SO THE COMPANY OF PRIESTS - the...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 6 THE PEOPLE ARE NOT TRUE TO GOD V1 ‘Come, let us return to the *Lord. He has torn us to pieces, but he will bring us health....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    Should be rendered, _As a robber lies in wait, so the company of priests murder on the road to Shechem; yea, they execute the plot._ Shechem, charged with historic interest (Genesis to Judges), is als...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ כְ חַכֵּ֨י אִ֜ישׁ גְּדוּדִ֗ים חֶ֚בֶר כֹּֽה

  • 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

    “LET US RETURN UNTO THE LORD” Hosea 6:1-11 How full Scripture is of tender invitations: _Come, and let us return!_ This opening verse is closely connected with Hosea 5:15. The hand that smote was th...

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

    Here we have the prophet's appeal in consequence of the judgment threatened. It was first a message calling the people to return to Jehovah. It was based on the certainty of divine pity; and a promise...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Robbers. Jephte had infested those parts, and the country was noted for murders; whence more cities of refuge were appointed in it, Judges xi., and Josue xx. 8. The prophet alludes to what had been s...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    We find here the same melancholy account, as in the other parts of this prophecy; the Lord complaining of his people's apostacy; Gilead and the house of Israel; Ephraim and Judah; all alike transgress...

  • 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

    VII. HOSEA 6:1-2 (NASB) "COME, LET US RETURN TO THE LORD. FOR HE HAS TORN [US,] BUT HE WILL HEAL US; HE HAS WOUNDED [US,] BUT HE WILL BANDAGE US. 2 "HE WILL REVIVE US AFTER TWO DAYS; HE WILL RAISE U...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet pursues more at large what he had briefly touched; for he does, not now confine himself to the common people, but directs his accusation against the sacerdotal order. “See,” he says, “the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7. Chapter 6 calls forth a touching address from the prophet, in which he entreats the people to return to Jehovah. Faith has always this resource, beca...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND AS TROOPS OF ROBBERS WAIT FOR A MAN,.... As a gang of highwaymen or footpads lie in wait in a ditch, or under a hedge, or in a cave of a rock or mountain, for a man they know will come by that way...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And as troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. Ver. 9. _And as troops of robbers wait for a man_] This verse hath much of...

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

    Hosea 6:8. _Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity_, &c. Archbishop Newcome translates these two verses very literally thus: _Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity: she is marked with foots...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And as troops of robbers wait for a man, lying in ambush in order to fall upon the unsuspecting traveler unawares, SO THE COMPANY OF PRIESTS MURDER IN THE WAY BY CONSENT, FOR THEY COMMIT LEWDNESS, or,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AN EARNEST INVITATION AND A FURTHER ADMONITION. Having stated his threat in a most uncompromising form, the prophet adds a powerful appeal to the people of his nation to heed the warning of the Lord...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    BY CONSENT: _ Heb._ with one shoulder. Or, to Sichem LEWDNESS: Or, enormity...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    4-11 Sometimes Israel and Judah seemed disposed to repent under their sufferings, but their goodness vanished like the empty morning cloud, and the early dew, and they were as vile as ever. Therefore...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    What is here charged upon these priests, they turned highway-men and murderers, some understand of their killing and spoiling those that were going up to Jerusalem to worship God there; but more likel...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 6:9 bands H1416 wait H2442 (H8763) man H376 company H2267 priests H3548 murder H7523 (H8762) way...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    And as troops of robbers wait for a man, So the company of priests murder in the way towards Shechem, Yes, they have committed mischief (or ‘a heinous crime'), In the house of Israel I have seen a...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The voice of the remnant of Israel in the last days. Jehovah's response. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The consideration of God's judgments upon us because of sin should awaken us to return...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Hosea 6:2. _After two days will he revive us._ The Chaldaic paraphrase gives a double acceptation to this text, that the Messiah should raise the dead, and that he should also revive and heal the chur...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 6:8. GILEAD] A city of refuge, the residence of priests, and the centre or metropolis of the hilly region beyond Jordan, yet polluted and the leader of ruin! HOSEA 6:9.] Even p...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION HOSEA 6:1 These three verses have, by the division into chapters, been violently and improperly torn from the preceding chapter, to which they naturally belong. Their connection with the f...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And they will say, Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up (Hsa Hosea 6:1). This is the prayer that they will be offerin...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 12:25; Acts 4:24; Ezekiel 22:27; Ezra 8:31; Hosea 5:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The company of priests — The priests by companies lay wait, and rob, and murder....

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