Christian Standard Bible
Hosea 5:2
2Rebels are deeply involved in slaughter; I will be a punishment for all of them.
Hosea 5:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
- New International Version (NIV)The rebels are knee-deep in slaughter. I will discipline all of them.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The revolters are deeply involved in slaughter, Though I rebuke them all.
Context of Hosea 5:2
1Hear this, priests! Pay attention, house of Israel! Listen, royal house! For the judgment applies to you because you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread out on Tabor. Rebels are deeply involved in slaughter; I will be a punishment for all of them. 3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me. For now, Ephraim, you have acted promiscuously; Israel is defiled. 4Their actions do not allow them to return to their God, for a spirit of promiscuity is among them, and they do not know the Lord.
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וְשַׁחֲטָ֥ה שֵׂטִ֖ים הֶעְמִ֑יקוּ וַאֲנִ֖י מוּסָ֥ר לְכֻלָּֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Hosea 5:2
- Hosea 6:9Like raiders who wait in ambush for someone, a band of priests murders on the road to Shechem. They commit atrocities.
- Hosea 9:15All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I began to hate them. I will drive them from my house because of their evil, wicked actions. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
- Jeremiah 6:28All are stubborn rebels spreading slander. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.
- Psalms 64:3who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim bitter words like arrows,
- Psalms 140:1Rescue me, Lord, from evil men. Keep me safe from violent men
- Isaiah 29:15Woe to those who go to great lengths to hide their plans from the Lord. They do their works in the dark, and say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
- Jeremiah 11:18The Lord informed me, so I knew. Then you helped me to see their deeds,
- Jeremiah 18:18Then certain ones said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will never be lost from the priest, or counsel from the wise, or a word from the prophet. Come, let’s denounce him and pay no attention to all his words.”
- Luke 22:2The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put him to death, because they were afraid of the people.
- Acts 23:12When it was morning, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
- Hosea 6:5This is why I have used the prophets to cut them down; I have killed them with the words from my mouth. My judgment strikes like lightning.
- Isaiah 1:5Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep on rebelling? The whole head is hurt, and the whole heart is sick.
- Jeremiah 5:3Lord, don’t your eyes look for faithfulness? You have struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They made their faces harder than rock, and they refused to return.
- Jeremiah 25:3“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, until this very day — twenty-three years — the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you time and time again, but you have not obeyed.
- Amos 4:6I gave you absolutely nothing to eat in all your cities, a shortage of food in all your communities, yet you did not return to me. This is the Lord’s declaration.
- Zephaniah 3:1Woe to the city that is rebellious and defiled, the oppressive city!
Commentaries on Hosea 5:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2The revolters are profound to make slaughter - Here may be a reference to the practice of hunters, making deep pits in the ground, and lightly covering them over, that the beasts, not discovering them, might fall in, and become a prey. Though I have been a Rebuker - "I will bring chastisement on them all." As they have made victims of others to their idolatry, I will make victims of them to my justice. Some have thought that as many as wished to depart…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2And the revolters are profound to make slaughter - Literally, “They made the slaughter deep,” as Isaiah says, “they deeply corupted themselves” Isaiah 31:6; and our old writers say “He smote deep.” They willed also doubtless to “make it deep,” hide it so deep, that God should never know it, as the Psalmist says of the ungodly, “that the inward self and heart of the worker‘s of iniquity is deep,” whereon it follows, that God should “suddenly wound them,”…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2I will chastise them all: This refers to God’s judgment. The Hebrew word musar means “discipline.” God’s judgment would certainly fall on Israel’s leaders. God did not judge Israel only to punish them, but to correct them so that his people would return to him.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. revolters--apostates. profound--deeply rooted [Calvin] and sunk to the lowest depths, excessive in their idolatry (Ho 9:9; Is 31:6) [Henderson]. From the antithesis (Ho 5:3), "not hid from me," I prefer explaining, profoundly cunning in their idolatry. Jeroboam thought it a profound piece of policy to set up golden calves to represent God in Dan and Beth-el, in order to prevent Israel's heart from turning again to David's line by going up to Jerusalem…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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