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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hosea 5:1

House of the king refers to his following on both sides of the Jordan — Mizpah on the east side, in Gilead, and Tabor on the west. They are singled out as being military strongholds, where the princes of the royal house, with the apostate priests, exercised their deadly hold upon the people, waylaying them, as birds and beasts are snared in the mountains of prey. (Comp. Hosea 6:8.)

Judgment is toward you. — More accurately, is meant for you.

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See also Hosea 5:1 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER V _This chapter begins with threatening the Israelites for_ _ensnaring the people to idolatry by their sacrifices and other_ _rites on Mizpah and Tabor_, 1-5. _Their sacrifices, however co...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HEAR YE THIS, O YE PRIESTS - God, with the solemn threefold summons, arraigns anew all classes in Israel before Him, not now to repentance but to judgment. Neither the religious privileges of the prie...

  • 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

    HEAR... O PRIESTS. This is. call to the priests and others, as Hosea 4:1 was also. call to Israel. JUDGMENT IS TOWARD YOU. judgment is denounced upon you. MIZPAH. There were five places with this nam...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _O priests_ Hosea addresses the priests of the high places in N. Israel. _O house of the king_ i.e. the king and his courtiers, whether of the royal family or not. _judgment is toward you_ Rather, T...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A personal arraignment of the priesthood (accused less directly in chap. 4) and of the court, who, instead of warning the people, have led them into the snare of sin. So entangled are they in it that...

  • 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • 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

    Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. Juda...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    5:1 for (b-23) Or 'against.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    TOWARD YOU] RV 'unto you.' Judgment belongs to you by right, and having abused your privilege you deserve greater punishment. MIZPAH and TABOR are both spoken of as ancient sanctuaries: cp Judges 21:1...

  • 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,...

  • 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

    שִׁמְעוּ ־זֹ֨את הַ כֹּהֲנִ֜ים וְ הַקְשִׁ֣יבוּ...

  • 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

    Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment [is] toward you, because ye have been a (a) snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor....

  • 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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS This Chapter is a very proper continuance to the subject in the former. The Lord had said that Ephraim should be let alone, having joined himself to idols; and here is related the sad conseq...

  • 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

    The Prophet here again preaches against the whole people: but he mainly directs his discourse to the priests and the rulers; for they were the source of the prevailing evils: the priests, intent on ga...

  • 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

    HEAR YE THIS, O PRIESTS,.... Though idolatrous ones, who called themselves priests, and were reckoned so by others, though not of the tribe of Levi, but such as Jeroboam had made priests, or were thei...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment [is] toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. Ver....

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

    _Hear this, O ye priests_ Or rather, _princes_, as Dr. Waterland renders כהנים, a reading which agrees better with the _house of the king_ that follows, and the word admitting of both significations....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE ACCUSATION AGAINST THE PRIESTS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Hear ye this, O priests, the spiritual leaders of the people; AND HEARKEN, YE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, the family of the ten tribes as such; AND GIVE YE EAR, in paying most careful attention, O HOUSE OF THE K...

  • 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

    HOSEA CHAPTER 5 God's judgments against the priests, the people, and the princes of Israel, for their manifold sins, HOSEA 5:1, until they repent, HOSEA 5:15. HEAR YE THIS, O PRIESTS: proclamation is...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 5:1 Hear H8085 (H8798) priests H3548 heed H7181 (H8685) house H1004 Israel H3478 ear H238 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Hear this, O you priests, And listen, O house of Israel, And give ear, O house of the king, For to you pertains the judgment, For you have been a snare at Mizpah, And a net spread on Tabor.' The...

  • 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

    KADESH-BARNEA; typical significance, (_ See Scofield) - (Numbers 14:23). _ KENOSIS; the, defined, (_ See Scofield) - (Philippians 2:6). _ KETURAH; a type, ( 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

    _Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you._ GOD IN WAYS OF JUDGMENT Here is a summons to all sorts of judgment. Thre...

  • 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 14:7; 1 Kings 21:18; 2 Chronicles 21:12; Amos 7:9;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    For judgment — God's controversy is with you all. A snare — You, O priests and princes, have ensnared the people by your examples. Mizpah — By idolatries acted at Mizpah, a part of Libanus. On Tabor —...

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