Hosea 11:6

Hosea 11:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
• New International Version (NIV)A sword will flash in their cities; it will devour their false prophets and put an end to their plans.
• English Standard Version (ESV)The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them because of their own counsels.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And the sword shall slash in his cities, Devour his districts, And consume them, Because of their own counsels.

Context of Hosea 11:6

4I drew them with bands of a man, with cords of love; and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I gently caused them to eat. 5He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king; for they refused to return [to me]; and the sword shall turn about in his cities, and shall consume his bars, and devour [them], because of their own counsels. 7Yea, my people are bent upon backsliding from me: though they call them to the Most High, none at all exalteth [him]. 8How shall I give thee over, Ephraim? [how] shall I deliver thee up, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? [how] shall I set thee as Zeboim? My heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.

Hosea 11:6 word by word

וְחָלָ֥ה חֶ֙רֶב֙ בְּעָרָ֔יו וְכִלְּתָ֥ה בַדָּ֖יו וְאָכָ֑לָה מִֽמֹּעֲצ֖וֹתֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

• swordחֶ֫רֶבchereb · swordH2719
• citiesעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
• consumeאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• counselsמוֹעֵצָהmô‛êtsâh · counselH4156

Cross-references for Hosea 11:6

• Hosea 10:14And a tumult shall arise among thy peoples, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces with the children.
• Hosea 13:16Samaria shall bear her guilt; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
• Leviticus 26:31And I will lay waste your cities and desolate your sanctuaries; and I will not smell your sweet odours.
• Deuteronomy 28:52And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and strong walls wherein thou trustedst come down, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.
• Deuteronomy 32:25From without shall the sword bereave them, and in the chambers, terror — Both the young man and the virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
• Jeremiah 5:17And they shall eat up thy harvest and thy bread, they shall eat up thy sons and thy daughters, they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds, they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall destroy with the sword thy strong cities, wherein thou trustedst.
• Micah 5:11And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and overthrow all thy strongholds.
• Psalms 80:11It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its shoots unto the river.
• Isaiah 9:14And Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day:
• Isaiah 18:5For before the harvest, when the blossoming is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning-knives, and take away [and] cut down the branches.
• Isaiah 27:10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its boughs.
• Ezekiel 15:2Son of man, what is the wood of the vine more than any wood, the vine-branch, which is among the trees of the forest?
• Ezekiel 20:47and say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of Jehovah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flashing flame shall not be quenched; and all that it meets from the south to the north shall be burned thereby.
• Malachi 4:1For behold, the day cometh, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all that work wickedness shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
• Hosea 10:6Yea, it shall be carried unto Assyria [as] a present for king Jareb: Ephraim shall be seized with shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
• Psalms 106:39And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.

Commentaries on Hosea 11:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6The sword shall abide on his cities - Israel was agitated with external and intestine wars from the time of Jeroboam the Second. Although Zechariah his son reigned twelve years, yet it was in continual troubles; and he was at last slain by the rebel Shallum, who, having reigned one month, was slain by Menahem. Pekahiah succeeded his father Menahem, and reigned two years, and was killed by Pekah, son of Remaliah. He joined Rezin, king of Syria, and made an…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6And the sword shall abide on his cities - Literally, “shall light, shall whirl” down upon. It shall come with violence upon them as a thing whirled with force, and then it shall alight and abide, to their destruction; as Jeremiah says, “a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury, a grievous whirlwind; it shall fall grievously (literally, whirl down) on the head of the wicked” Jeremiah 23:19. As God said to David, after the murder of Uriah, “Now…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-7Since the Israelites refused to return to the Lord, they would go back to Egypt and serve Assyria. Their past slavery in Egypt symbolized their future exile in Assyria.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. abide--or, "fall upon" [Calvin]. branches--that is, his villages, which are the branches or dependencies of the cities [Calvin]. Grotius translates, "his bars" (so La 2:9), that is, the warriors who were the bulwarks of the state. Compare Ho 4:18, "rulers" (Margin), "shields" (Psa 47:9). because of their own counsels--in worshipping idols, and relying on Egypt (compare Ho 10:6).Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 11:6

• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Sword

In the dictionaries

• Cord
• Repenting
• Hosea
• Staves
• Zechariah, Book of

Commentaries on Hosea 11

• 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
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings