Hosea 4:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place. ”

Hosea 4:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For Israel slideth back, as a backsliding heifer - The calves which Israel worshiped were pictures of itself. They represented natural, untamed, strength, which, when put to service, started back...
Hosea 4:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a (u) lamb in a large place. (u) God will so disperse them, that they will not remain in any certain place.
Hosea 4:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Utter Corruption of the Nation Traced to Irreligion. (The text of Hosea 4:15-19 is hopelessly corrupt. Marti regards Hosea 4:3 as an insertion and Hosea 4:5-6 a as foreign to their pres...
Hosea 4:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

slideth back . hath been stubborn, restive, or intractable, refractory. a lamb . a young ram of more than. year old. in. large place . an uninclosed space: i. e. the lands of the heathen.
Hosea 4:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet compares Israel here to an untamable heifer. Some render it, “A straying heifer”, and we may render it, “A wanton heifer.” But to others a defection seems to have been more especial...
Hosea 4:16 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1147 THE EVIL AND DANGER OF BACKSLIDING Hosea 4:16 . Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer . SUCH is the influence of bad example, that it is extremely difficult to withstand i...
Hosea 4:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place. Israel slideth back - They are untractable, like an unbroken heifer or steer, that pulls back,...
Hosea 4:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For Israel slideth, &c.— Houbigant renders it, As an untamed heifer, when the Lord would have fed them, &c. Dr. Chandler observes, that the word סררה sorerah, rendered backsliding, pr...
Hosea 4:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place. For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer - translate, 'Israel is refractory, as...
Hosea 4:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Condemnation of the Priesthood An arraignment against Israel as a whole, because of all manner of wickedness against God and man. Prophet and priest, who ought to have taught them better, are only...
Hosea 4:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Slideth back. — More correctly, is stubborn as a stubborn cow. Will feed them as a lamb in a large place. — An expression of tender commiseration (so Ewald). But most commentators understand i...
Hosea 4:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1-19 ; Hosea 5:1-15 ; Hosea 6:1-11 ; Hosea 7:1-16 ; Hosea 8:1-14 ; Hosea 9:1-17 ; Hosea 10:1-15 ; Hosea 11:1-12 ; Hosea 12:1-14 ; Hosea 13:1-16 ; Hosea...
Hosea 4:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Joined to Idols” Hosea 4:11-19 The prophet does not mince his words in describing the morals of his time. We are reminded of Bunyan's words: “My original and inward pollution was my plague. It...
Hosea 4:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In any attempt to analyze and tabulate the teaching in this second division of the Book it must be remembered that the prophetic utterances cannot be treated as verbatim reports. As they here appear,...
Hosea 4:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I beg the Reader to observe, for I think it is very observable, and very blessed it is in the observance, what sweet minglings of grace is here amidst the solemn and awful account the Lord gives of h...
Hosea 4:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer ,.... A heifer or young cow Israel is compared unto; the rather, because of the object of their idolatrous worship, the calves at Dan and Bethel: the...
Hosea 4:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place. Ver. 16. For Israel slideth back, as a back sliding heifer ] Iuvenea petulca, as an unrul...
Hosea 4:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For Israel slideth back , &c. As if the Lord had said, As for Israel, I give him up to a reprobate mind. And now the discourse passes naturally into the detail and amplification of Israel's guil...
Hosea 4:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sins of the Priests and the People; Warning to Judah. B. C. 758. 12 My people ask...
Hosea 4:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

There is just cause why Judah should not imitate Israel, and this cause is here assigned. Israel; the ten tribes As a backsliding heifer, grown lusty, fed and wanton, will neither endure the yoke...
Hosea 4:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Strong Wine and Illicit Sex Have Turned The People's Minds So That They Look To Bits Of Wood Concerning Their Future And Play The Harlot On The Tops Of Mountains And Under Sacred Trees Rather Than L...
Hosea 4:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES .— Hosea 4:15 . Come not ] by pilgrimages to places of idolatrous worship. Swear not ] in temples of idols. “The confession of Jehovah is hypocrisy in the mouth of an idolater; pr...
Hosea 4:16 - Scofield Reference Notes

Galatians ; Epistle, Introduction, ( See Scofield) - ( Galatians 1:1 ). Garment ; symbol of righteousness, ( See Scofield) - ( Revelation 19:8 ). Gehenna ; see Hell Generation ; m...
Hosea 4:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 4:1 . Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel. Here a new sermon is built upon a new revelation. Hosea 4:2 . Blood toucheth blood, as explained in the words preseding, adultery...
Hosea 4:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer. The evil and danger of backsliding I. When we may be said to resemble a backsliding heifer. 1. When we will not draw in God’s yoke at all. 2....
Hosea 4:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Hosea 4:1 A new and distinct division of the book commences with this fourth chapter and continues till the close. What had previously been presented in figure and symbol is now...
Hosea 4:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Second Part of the Accusation
Hosea 4:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 15:11 ; Hosea 11:7 ; Isaiah 22:18 ; Isaiah 7:21-25 ; Jeremiah 14:7 ; Jeremiah 3:11 ; Jeremiah 3:6 ; Jeremiah 3:8 ; Jeremiah 5:6 ; Jeremiah 7:24 ; Jeremiah 8:5 ; Leviticus 26:33 ;...
Hosea 4:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Israel — The ten tribes. As a back — sliding heifer — Which when grown lusty, and wanton, will neither endure the yoke nor be confined in her allowed pastures. In a large place — In a large place o...

Hosea 4:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hosea 4:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Hosea 4:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 4:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Hosea 4:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 4:16 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Hosea 4:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Hosea 4:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Hosea 4:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Hosea 4:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 4:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hosea 4:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Hosea 4:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Hosea 4:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hosea 4:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hosea 4:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hosea 4:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hosea 4:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 4:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hosea 4:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hosea 4:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 4:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Hosea 4:16 - Scofield Reference Notes

Hosea 4:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 4:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

Hosea 4:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Hosea 4:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hosea 4:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 4:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes