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Hosea 5:10
10The princes of Judah are like those who move a boundary marker; I will pour out My wrath on them like [an unrestrained flood of] water.
Hosea 5:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
- New International Version (NIV)Judah’s leaders are like those who move boundary stones. I will pour out my wrath on them like a flood of water.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The princes of Judah have become like those who move the landmark; upon them I will pour out my wrath like water.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark; I will pour out My wrath on them like water.
Context of Hosea 5:10
8Blow the horn in Gibeah, The trumpet in Ramah [the lofty hills on Benjamin’s northern border]. Sound the alarm at Beth-aven: “Behind you and coming after you [is the enemy], O Benjamin [be on guard]!” 9Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke; Among the tribes of Israel I declare what is certain. The princes of Judah are like those who move a boundary marker; I will pour out My wrath on them like [an unrestrained flood of] water. 11Ephraim is oppressed; he is broken and crushed by [divine] judgment, Because he was determined to follow man’s command (vanities, filth, secular precepts). 12Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim And like dry rot to the house of Judah [in My judgment against them].
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הָיוּ֙ שָׂרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה כְּמַסִּיגֵ֖י גְּב֑וּל עֲלֵיהֶ֕ם אֶשְׁפּ֥וֹךְ כַּמַּ֖יִם עֶבְרָתִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Hosea 5:10
- Hosea 5:5But the pride and self-reliance of Israel testifies against him. Therefore Israel, and [especially] Ephraim, stumble and fall in their wickedness and guilt; Judah also has stumbled with them.
- Deuteronomy 19:14“You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the forefathers [who first divided the territory] have set, in the land which you will inherit in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
- Deuteronomy 27:17‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary mark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
- 2 Kings 16:7So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the kings of Aram and of Israel, who are rising up against me.”
- 2 Chronicles 28:16At that time King Ahaz sent word to the king of Assyria [to ask him] for help.
- Proverbs 17:14The beginning of strife is like letting out water [as from a small break in a dam; first it trickles and then it gushes]; Therefore abandon the quarrel before it breaks out and tempers explode.
- Proverbs 22:28Do not move the ancient landmark [at the boundary of the property] Which your fathers have set.
- Psalms 32:6Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You [for forgiveness] in a time when You [are near and] may be found; Surely when the great waters [of trial and distressing times] overflow they will not reach [the spirit in] him.
- Psalms 88:17They have surrounded me like flood waters all day long; They have completely encompassed me.
- Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, O Lord, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their pounding waves.
- Matthew 7:27And the rain fell, and the floods and torrents came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great and complete was its fall.”
- Luke 6:49But the one who has [merely] heard and has not practiced [what I say], is like a [foolish] man who built a house on the ground without any foundation, and the torrent burst against it; and it immediately collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.”
Commentaries on Hosea 5:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Like them that remove the bound - As execrable as they who remove the land-mark. They have leaped over law's enclosure, and scaled all the walls of right; they have despised and broken all laws, human and Divine.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound - All avaricious encroachment on the paternal inheritance of others, was strictly forbidden by God in the law, under the penalty of His curse. “Cursed is he that removeth his neighbor‘s landmark” Deuteronomy 27:17. “The princes of Judah,” i. e., those who were the king‘s counselors and chief in the civil polity, had committed sin, like to this. Since the prophet had just pronounced the desolation…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-15Verses 8-15 The destruction of impenitent sinners is not mere talk, to frighten them, it is a sentence which will not be recalled. And it is a mercy that we have timely warning given us, that we may flee from the wrath to come. Compliance with the commandments of men, who thwart the commandments of God, ripens a people for ruin. The judgments of God are sometimes to a sinful people as a moth, and as rottenness, or as a worm; as these consume the clothes…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10those who move boundary stones: The Lord owned the land and entrusted it to the tribes after the conquest (see Joshua 13:8–19:51). Moving a boundary marker and changing God's allotted boundaries was stealing from God (Deuteronomy 19:14). Such an act rightly brought divine punishment (Deuteronomy 27:17).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9-109-10. Israel is referred to in Ho 5:9, Judah in Ho 5:10. the day of rebuke--the day when I shall chastise him. among the tribes of Israel have I made known--proving that the scene of Hosea's labor was among the ten tribes. that which shall surely be--namely, the coming judgment here foretold. It is no longer a conditional decree, leaving a hope of pardon on repentance; it is absolute, for Ephraim is hopelessly impenitent.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Hosea 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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