9<\/strong>. rebuke<\/em> ] Rather, punishment,<\/strong> as the same word is rendered Psa 149:7<\/span> A.V. ‘punishments upon the people(s).’ The root meaning of the word is ‘judicial decision.’<\/p>\n among the tribes of Israel<\/em> ] i.e. Israel in its widest sense is the object of Hosea’s denunciations. The phrase ‘the tribes of Israel’, standing by itself, never means the Ten Tribes only.<\/p>\n have I made known<\/em> ] Or, do I make known that which is sure<\/strong> (lit. trustworthy).<\/p>\n Ephraim shall be desolate – <\/B>It shall not be lightly rebuked, nor even more grievously chastened; it shall not simply be wasted by famine, pestilence, and the sword; it shall be not simply desolate, but a desolation, one waste, in the day of rebuke, when God brings home to it its sin and punishment. Ephraim was not taken away for a time; it was never restored.<\/P> I have made known that which shall surely be – <\/B>o<\/SUP>: Doubt not that this which I say shall come upon thee, for it is a sure saying which I have made known; literally, one well-grounded, as it was, in the mind, the justice, the holiness, the truth of God. All Gods threatenings or promises are grounded in past experience. So it may also be, as though God said, Whatever I have hitherto promised or threatened to Israel, has come to pass. In all I have proved Myself true. Let no one then flatter himself, as though this were uncertain, for in this, as in the rest, I shall be found to be God, faithful and true.<\/P><\/p>\n Hos 5:9<\/span><\/p>\n Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Lords anger<\/strong><\/p>\n Desolate may be reckoned with energetic adjectives. It was another form of the word that the prophet used; it was a substantive, colder than ice, hollower than the wind: Ephraim shall be a desolation. Here we come from the descriptive word into the concrete term–a desolation; a word which carries its own limitations and qualifications. You cannot amend the word, you cannot enlarge it, you can add nothing to its cheerlessness; desolation admits of no companion term; it must be felt to be understood. There have been times when the house was a desolation; there was no light in the windows; though they stood squarely south, and looked right at the sun at mid-day, yet they caught no light; there was silence in the house; no sound; the fire crackled and spluttered, and spent itself in vain explosions, but there was no poetry in all the way of the flame, there was no picture of home in all the blank shining of the hollow tongues of fire that licked the grate, but said nothing, yet only hinted that the place was empty; bed and cot and favourite fireside, all vacant, and the very grandeur of the house an aggravation of its vacancy. It is a fearful thing <\/strong>to fall into the hands of the living God. Why is God so wrathful? Is this an arbitrary vengeance? Doth He delight to show His omnipotence, and to chastise the insects of a day because He is almighty? Never. There is always a moral reason,–The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound. God has always been jealous of the landmark. God is honest; would His Church were also honest! God will not live in the house until the false weights and scales be taken out of it; God will not tabernacle with men whilst they are pinching the poor of one little inch of the yard length; He will trouble the house with a great moan of wind, until the balances be right; then He will say, You may now pray. And every sentence will be an answer. From the beginning we have seen that God would have the landmark respected. Here are the princes of Judah, thieves. It must be an awful thing to rob the poor as they were robbed by the great in all ages. It must be an infinitely difficult thing for a prince to be honest; it is an almost impossible thing for a rich man to be really honest. The Lord is the defender of the poor. We cannot understand how, but there is in history, taking it in great breadths, a spirit that reclaims what has been taken unrighteously, that punishes the men who trifle with landmarks and boundaries, and old family fences, God rebukes the rich; God never blesses human greediness. Judge not by appearances, or by narrow instances; take in cycles of time, great spans of history, and see how the slow moving but sure moving spirit of providence readjusts and reclaims, and finally establishes according to the law of honesty and righteousness. (Joseph Parker, D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n Verse 9<\/span>. Among the tribes of Israel have I made known<\/B><\/I>] They have got sufficient warning; it is their own fault that they have not taken it.<\/P> <\/p>\n Ephraim; the whole kingdom of the ten tribes, all sorts and ranks of men among them. <\/P> Shall be desolate; a desolation, i. e. most desolate, utterly cut off. <\/P> In the day of rebuke; when Shalmaneser shall come up with his forces, besiege, sack, and captivate all thy cities, and Samaria with the rest; when by these Assyrians I shall rebuke, i.e. punish. <\/P> Among the tribes of Israel, to the house of Israel openly, so that all might be informed, have I made known; by my prophets I have foretold what should be, and by some judgments already executed I have further made known to them; they are sufficiently warned, and should have considered in time, and prevented their own calamities. <\/P> That which shall surely be; what is irrevocably determined and ratified, and they shall never evade, nor ever overcome. <\/P> <\/p>\n 9, 10.<\/B> Israel is referred to inHo 5:9<\/span>, Judah in Ho5:10<\/span>. <\/P> the day of rebuke<\/B>theday when I shall chastise him. <\/P> among the tribes of Israelhave I made known<\/B>proving that the scene of Hosea’s labor wasamong the ten tribes. <\/P> that which shall surelybe<\/B>namely, the coming judgment here foretold. It is no longer aconditional decree, leaving a hope of pardon on repentance; it isabsolute, for Ephraim is hopelessly impenitent.<\/P><\/p>\n Ephraim shall he desolate in the day of rebuke<\/strong>,…. The country of the ten tribes shall be laid desolate, the inhabitants of them destroyed either by the sword, or famine, or pestilence, and the rest carried captive, as they were by Shalmaneser; and this was the day of the Lord’s rebuke and chastisement of them: or of the reward of their sins, as the Targum, when the Lord punished them for them; and this is what the trumpet was to be blown for, in order to give notice of, or to call for mourning on account of it:<\/p>\n among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be<\/strong>; this desolation was foretold by the prophets, and published in all the tribes of Israel, as what should certainly come to pass; and therefore they could not plead ignorance of it, or say they had no notice given them, or they would have repented of their sins. The Targum is,<\/p>\n “in the tribes of Israel I have made known the law;”<\/p>\n so Jarchi; which they transgressed, and therefore were made desolate; or the word of truth, as Kimchi; the true and faithful word, that if they walked in his ways, hearkened unto him, it would be well with them; but, if not, he would destroy their land, and carry them captive.<\/p>\n “Ephraim will become a desert in the day of punishment: over the tribes of Israel have I proclaimed that which lasts.<\/em> Hos 5:10<\/span>. The princes of Judah have become like boundary-movers; upon them I pour out my wrath like water.” <\/em> The kingdom of Israel will entirely succumb to the punishment. It will become a desert – will be laid waste not only for a time, but permanently. The punishment with which it is threatened will be . This word is to be interpreted as in Deu 28:59<\/span>, where it is applied to lasting plagues, with which God will chastise the obstinate apostasy of His people. By the perfect , what is here proclaimed is represented as a completed event, which will not be altered. B e shibhte <\/em>, not in or among the tribes, but according to , in Deu 28:5<\/span>, against or over the tribes (Hitzig). Judah also will not escape the punishment of its sins. The unusual expression massge g e bhul <\/em> is formed after, and to be explained from Deu 19:14<\/span>, “Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark;” or Deu 27:17<\/span>, “Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark.” The princes of Judah have become boundary-removers, not by hostile invasions of the kingdom of Israel (Simson); for the boundary-line between Israel and Judah was not so appointed by God, that a violation of it on the part of the princes of Judah could be reckoned a grievous crime, but by removing the boundaries of right which had been determined by God, viz., according to Hos 4:15<\/span>, by participating in the guilt of Ephraim, i.e., by idolatry, and therefore by the fact that they had removed the boundary between Jehovah and Baal, that is to say, between the one true God and idols. “If he who removes his neighbour’s boundary is cursed, how much more he who removes the border of his God!” (Hengstenberg). Upon such men the wrath of God would fall in its fullest measure. , like a stream of water, so plentifully. For the figure, compare Psa 69:25<\/span>; Psa 79:6<\/span>; Jer 10:25<\/span>. Severe judgments are thus announced to Judah, viz., those of which the Assyrians under Tiglath-pileser and Sennacherib were the instruments; but no ruin or lasting devastation is predicted, as was the case with the kingdom of Israel, which was destroyed by the Assyrians.<\/p>\n Here the Prophet asserts, without any figure, that their chastisement would not be slight or paternal, but that God would punish the Israelites as they deserved, that he would reduce them to nothing. God, we know, sometimes spares the ungodly, while he chastises them: signs of his wrath daily appear through the whole world; but at the same time they are moderate punishments which God inflicts on men; and he in a manner invites them to repentance, when he thus mercifully chastises their sins. But the Prophet says here, that God would no longer act in this manner; for he would destroy and wholly blot out the whole kingdom of Israel. They had been already often warned, not only in words, but also in deeds and had often felt the wrath of God; but they still persisted in their course. And now, as God saw that they were wholly stupid, he says, Now, in the day of correction, Ephraim shall be for desolation; as though he said, “I will not correct Israel as heretofore, for they have been before in various ways chastised, but have not repented; I will therefore now lay aside those paternal corrections which I have hitherto used, for I have in vain applied such remedies: I will then henceforth so correct Israel, that they shall be entirely destroyed.” We now comprehend the Prophet’s meaning. <\/p>\n But this is a remarkable passage; for men are always slow and dilatory; even when God pricks them, as it were, with goads, they remain slothful in their sins. God adds corrections, one after the other; and when he sees men continuing as it were out of their senses, he then testifies that it is no time for reproof, but that final destruction is at hand. We hence see that every hope is here cut off from the Israelites, that they might not think that they would be punished in the usual way for their sins; for as soon as the Lord would begin to reprehend them, he would destroy and blot out their names: Israel then shall be for desolation in the day of correction <\/p>\n He then adds, through the tribes of Israel I have made known the truth. Some regard this sentence as spoken in the person of God, and refer it to the first covenant which God made with the whole people; and so consider this to be the sense, “I do not now of a sudden proceed to take vengeance on the Israelites; for I have begotten this people, nourished them, brought them up to manhood. Since this is the case, there is now no reason for them to complain, that I am too precipitant in taking vengeance.” This is one meaning: but I rather incline to their opinion, who regard this as spoken in the person of the Prophet; I do not yet follow altogether their opinion, for they suppose that the fault of the people in being unteachable is alone set forth: I have made known the truth through the tribes of Israel, as though the Prophet had said, “This people is unworthy that God should chastise them in a paternal manner, for they have hardened themselves in their wickedness; and though they have been more than sufficiently taught their duty, they have yet openly despised God, and have done this, not through ignorance, but through perverseness: since then the people of Israel have blinded and demented themselves, as it were, willfully, what now remains, but that God will bring them to desolation?” So they expound this place. But it seems to me that a protestation is what suits this passage: I have made known the truth through the tribes of Israel, as though he said, “This is fixed and ratified, which I now declare, and it shall certainly be; let then no one seek any escape for himself, for God threatens not now, as often before, for the purpose of recalling men to repentance, but declares what he will do.” <\/p>\n That this may be better understood, the mode of speaking in familiar use among all the Prophets is to be noticed: they often threaten, and then give hope of pardon, and promise salvation, so that they seem to exhibit some sort of contradiction: for after having fulminated against the people, they come at once to preach grace, they offer salvation, they testify that God will be propitious. At first sight the Prophets seem not to be consistent with themselves. But the solution is easy, for they threatened vengeance to men under condition; afterwards, when they saw some fruit, they then set forth the mercy of God, and began to be heralds of peace, to reconcile men to God, and make an agreement between them. Thus our Prophet often threatened the Israelites; and had they repented, the hope of salvation would not have been cut off from them. But after he had found them to be so obstinate that they would not receive any instruction, he then said, I have announced the truth through the tribes of Israel, that is, God does not now say, “Except ye repent, you are lost;” but he speaks positively; because he sees that the well known doctrine has been despised: this then is the truth. It is the same as if he said, “This is the last denunciation, which shall be fixed and unalterable.” <\/p>\n And Jeremiah also speaks in the same manner: his book is full of various threatenings; and yet they are conditional threatening. But after God had taken the matter in hand, he began to act in a different way: “I now call you no more to repentance, I contend not with you, I do not now set forth God as a judge, that ye may flee to him for mercy; all these things are come to an end; what remains now”, he says, “is the last command, to show that you are now past hope.” This is the true and real meaning of the Prophet here; and whosoever will consider the whole context, will easily perceive that this was the Prophet’s intention. He had said before, “Ephraim shall be for desolation in the day of correction,” that is, “The Lord will no longer reprove Ephraim as heretofore, but will entirely destroy him:” then he adds, I have promulgated or published the truth through the tribes of Israel: “Now,” he says, “know ye that vengeance will come shortly, and that it is ratified before God; know also that I speak authoritatively, as if the hand of God were now stretched forth before your eyes.” Now follows — <\/p>\n 9<\/strong>. <\/strong> The alarm may indeed be given, for Ephraim is doomed. <\/p>\n Day of rebuke <\/strong> Of judgment. <\/p>\n Tribes of Israel <\/strong> The northern tribes only. <\/p>\n Among <\/strong> Perhaps better, concerning, <\/em> or with regard to. <\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n That which shall surely be <\/strong> Literally, that which is true. <\/em> There is no escape.<\/p>\n Hos 5:10<\/span> <\/strong> is preferably connected with Hos 5:11<\/span>, the former describing conditions in Judah, the latter those in Israel. In Hos 5:10<\/span> the prophet turns to the third class named in Hos 5:1<\/span>, the “house of the king,” here called princes. <\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Judah <\/strong> Following the theory that Hosea nowhere refers to the southern kingdom, some commentators read Israel <\/em> instead. Like them <\/strong> that remove the bound <\/strong> [“landmark”] The landmarks were under divine protection (Deu 19:14<\/span>); a curse is pronounced upon him who removes them (Deu 27:17<\/span>, frequently in the Assyrian and Babylonian inscriptions). This crime the prophet regards as the limit of transgression, from which the political leaders of Judah do not shrink (Isa 5:8<\/span> ff.; Mic 2:2<\/span>). Such conduct cannot remain unpunished. Jehovah’s wrath will be poured out like water <\/strong> In abundance and power like a rushing torrent. Ephraim is equally guilty. Oppressed broken <\/strong> [“crushed”] The two expressions passive participles occur together in Deu 28:33<\/span>. LXX. reads the active participles.<\/p>\n Ephraim is the one that oppresses and crushes in judgment; and many commentators follow the LXX.; but to change the forms is arbitrary, and passive participles are not used in Hebrew in an active sense, a usage found frequently in Arabic. The common rendering is perfectly suitable.<\/p>\n In Hos 5:10<\/span> the sin of Judah is condemned and judgment is announced; in Hos 5:11<\/span> the order is reversed, first the announcement of judgment, then a statement of the cause. The participles stand in place of the prophetic perfect. <\/p>\n In judgment <\/strong> Or, by judgment, <\/em> the one to be sent by Jehovah. Why? <\/p>\n Because he willingly walked after the commandment <\/strong> R.V. “he was content to walk after man’s <\/em> command.” As the italics <\/em> in R.V. indicate, the original reads simply, “he was content to walk after a command.”<\/p>\n Command <\/em> in Hebrew a rare word, occurring again only in Isa 28:10<\/span>; Isa 28:13<\/span> is interpreted to mean a human statute as opposed to the divine command; here the institution introduced in Israel at the command of Jeroboam I, the worship of the calves at Beth-el and Dan, which was largely responsible for present religious conditions. One would expect a less ambiguous phrase, if this were the thought. LXX. and Peshitto have a different word though similar in sound, vanity, <\/em> for commandment; <\/em> the former would be a designation of the Baalim (compare Jer 18:15<\/span>); Isaiah frequently calls idols “nothings.” He was content <\/em> might be translated “it pleased him,” or “he desired.” These versions may have preserved the original: “he desired to walk after vanity.” The result of such conduct is the gradual dissolution of the nation, caused by influences from within, which, according to Hos 5:12<\/span>, are set in motion by Jehovah himself (compare Isa 3:1<\/span> ff.). <\/p>\n Therefore will I be <\/strong> Better, but as for me, I was, <\/em> that is, in the past. <\/p>\n Moth rottenness <\/strong> The second, better, worm eating, <\/em> the process by which the worm destroys wood and flesh. Both symbolize forces that destroy slowly but surely (Job 13:28<\/span>). The dissolution of Israel was caused as much by anarchy and corruption within as by invasion from without.<\/p>\n ‘Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke,<\/p>\n Among the tribes of Israel have I made known what will surely be.’<\/p>\n The consequence of the invasion, and the certainty of those consequences, is now described. Ephraim will become a desolation (a virtual desert) on the ‘day of rebuke (chastisement, punishment)’. This was Hosea’s equivalent of ‘the day of YHWH’ of Amos. God was about to ‘have His day’ in fulfilment of His warnings of judgment. And the certainty of it (‘what will surely be’) is underlined, a certainty which YHWH has made known to ‘the tribes of Israel’ (sometimes called ‘the ten tribes’).<\/p>\n Hos 5:9<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> God has his day of sharp rebukes or chidings for every impenitent sinner; in which sufficient arguments shall be used to render him utterly inexcusable, if he reject them: so that Ephraim shall have nothing to say, why he should not be desolated; yea, so desolated, as to make the beholders amazed thereat, as the Hebrew word shammah, <\/em>imports: the day which now comes, is a day, not of correction but of execution. <\/p>\n Hos 5:9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.<\/p>\n Ver. 9. Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke<\/strong> ] Correptionis, vel Correctionis, ut Pagmnus; <\/em> ” When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity,” &c., Psa 39:11<\/span> . God hath a day for such sharp rebukes, or ahidings by way of conviction or argument (as the word signifieth), wherein he will be sure to carry it, with a great deal of sound reason and evident demonstration; so that Ephraim shall have nothing to say, why he should not be desolated; yea, so desolated as to make the beholders amazed thereat, as the Hebrew word importeth ( Vastari ita ut videntes obstupescant<\/em> ). God will not now dally with Ephraim, or deal favourably with him as heretofore; he will not shake his rod at him only, but wait it to the very stumps; he shall be utterly destroyed from being a people; the day that now comes is a black day indeed, a day not of instruction, but of destruction, not of correction, but of execution; a very doomsday, wherein God will bring them into the furnace, and there leave them, Eze 22:20<\/span> . And that none may think this sentence overly severe, or not so sure but that it might be avoided or vacated, see what followeth in the text: <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be<\/strong> ] i.e.<\/em> either, I have forewarned them sufficiently, but they would take no warning, which is both a just presage and desert for their ruin; or else thus: I am now fully resolved upon their ruin, neither is there cause that any man should deceive himself with a vain hope, as if these evils that I foretell should not befall you. Experience, the mistress of fools, shall teach you, that the sentence I now pronounce is precise and peremptory, not conditional, as heretofore, but absolute, and unchangeable; and this I here assure you of by this solemn contestation.<\/p>\n Ephraim: Hos 5:12, Hos 5:14, Hos 8:8, Hos 9:11-17, Hos 11:5, Hos 11:6, Hos 13:1-3, Hos 13:15, Hos 13:16, Job 12:14, Isa 28:1-4, Amo 3:14, Amo 3:15, Amo 7:9, Amo 7:17 <\/p>\n have: Isa 46:10, Isa 48:3, Isa 48:5, Amo 3:7, Zec 1:6, Joh 16:4 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Jer 8:12 – in the Hos 5:3 – Ephraim Mic 6:13 – in<\/p>\n Hos 5:9. Ephraim is used to mean the 10-tribc kingdom, otherwise called Israel. Day of rebuke refers to the time when the country was to be invaded and the people carried off into exile.<\/p>\n 5:9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made {i} known that which shall surely be.<\/p>\n (i) By the success they will know that I have surely determined this.<\/p>\n When the Lord rebuked Ephraim for her sins, she would become desolate throughout her tribal territories. The Lord promised that this would surely happen (cf. Lev 26:32-35).<\/p>\n Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. 9. rebuke ] Rather, punishment, as the same word is rendered Psa 149:7 A.V. ‘punishments upon the people(s).’ The root meaning of the word is ‘judicial decision.’ among the tribes of Israel … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Hosea 5:9”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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