Hosea 5:2

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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)You have dug a deep pit to trap them at Acacia Grove. But I will settle with you for what you have done.

Context of Hosea 5:2

1“Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen, royal house! This judgment is against you: You have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor. The rebels are knee-deep in slaughter. I will discipline all of them. 3I know all about Ephraim; Israel is not hidden from me. Ephraim, you have now turned to prostitution; Israel is corrupt. 4“Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; they do not acknowledge the Lord.

Hosea 5:2 word by word

וְשַׁחֲטָ֥ה שֵׂטִ֖ים הֶעְמִ֑יקוּ וַאֲנִ֖י מוּסָ֥ר לְכֻלָּֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And the revoltersשֵׂטώêţ sêţ · rebellionH7846
• are profoundעָמֹק‛âmaq · be deepH6009
• to make slaughterשַׁחֲטָהshâchaţ · slaughteringH7819
• a rebukerמוּסָרmûsâr · disciplineH4148

Cross-references for Hosea 5:2

• Hosea 6:9As marauders lie in ambush for a victim, so do bands of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem, carrying out their wicked schemes.
• Hosea 9:15“Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal, I hated them there. Because of their sinful deeds, I will drive them out of my house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
• Jeremiah 6:28They are all hardened rebels, going about to slander. They are bronze and iron; they all act corruptly.
• Psalms 64:3They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim cruel words like deadly arrows.
• Psalms 140:1Rescue me, Lord, from evildoers; protect me from the violent,
• Isaiah 29:15Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the Lord, who do their work in darkness and think, “Who sees us? Who will know?”
• Jeremiah 11:18Because the Lord revealed their plot to me, I knew it, for at that time he showed me what they were doing.
• Jeremiah 18:18They said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. So come, let’s attack him with our tongues and pay no attention to anything he says.”
• Luke 22:2and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some way to get rid of Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.
• Acts 23:12The next morning some Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
• Hosea 6:5Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets, I killed you with the words of my mouth— then my judgments go forth like the sun.
• Isaiah 1:5Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted.
• Jeremiah 5:3Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; you crushed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
• Jeremiah 25:3For twenty-three years—from the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—the word of the Lord has come to me and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
• Amos 4:6“I gave you empty stomachs in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.
• Zephaniah 3:1Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!

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

Topics related to Hosea 5:2

• Backsliders
• Idolatry

In the dictionaries

• Profound
• Rebuke
• Hosea
• Zechariah, Book of

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