Hosea 4:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blooda toucheth blood. ”

Hosea 4:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By swearing, and lying ... - Literally, “swearing or cursing” , “and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery!” The words in Hebrew are nouns of action. The Hebrew form is very v...
Hosea 4:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and (b) blood toucheth blood. (b) In every place appears a liberality to most wicked vices, so that one fo...
Hosea 4:2 - 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 4:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

By swearing, &c. These are the evils which flow from. want of the knowledge of God. Compare Hosea 4:6 ; Hosea 2:20 . Rom 1:21. 1 John 2:3 1 John 2:4 . 1 John 4:7 ; 1 John 4:8 . blood t...
Hosea 4:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

But after having said that they were full of perfidiousness and cruelty, he adds, By cursing, and lying, and killing, etc. , אלה, ale, means to swear: some explain it in this place as...
Hosea 4:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. By swearing, and lying - Where there is no truth there will be lies and perjury;...
Hosea 4:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

By swearing, &c.— Swearing, and lying, and murther, and theft, and adultery break out, &c.
Hosea 4:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adulter...
Hosea 4:2 - 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 4:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Blood toucheth blood — i.e. , murder is added to murder with ghastly prevalence. References to false swearing and lying are repeated in terrible terms by Amos 2:6-8 and Micah 7:2-8 ; and the fo...
Hosea 4:2 - 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 4:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Like People, like Priest” Hosea 4:1-10 This chapter contains a terrible indictment against the whole kingdom. There was neither truth nor mercy in the land, but swearing, lying, and adultery....
Hosea 4:2 - 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 4:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here is an awful account of sin in some of the deadly branches of it. But the most awful part of it is, that it is Israel, the Israel of God, that is here spoken of. Sin is sin in any nation, and the...
Hosea 4:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

By swearing, and lying ,.... Which some join together, and make but one sin of it, false swearing, so Jarchi and Kimchi; but that swearing itself signifies, as the Targum interprets it; for it not o...
Hosea 4:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. Ver. 2. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing ] Heb. to swear, and...
Hosea 4:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

By swearing False swearing seems to be here chiefly intended, which is here, as it is also elsewhere, joined with lying and stealing; because, in the Jewish courts of justice, men that were sus...
Hosea 4:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sinfulness of Israel. B. C. 758. 1 Hear the word of the L ORD , ye children of Israe...
Hosea 4:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

By swearing; either falsely or profanely, or cursing and wishing evil to one; instead of truth here is perjury; instead of compassion here is execration and evil-speaking. Lying of all kinds; aff...
Hosea 4:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH's Indictment Of Israel And Warning Of The Consequences ( Hosea 4:1-5 ). YHWH now charges ‘the people (children) of Israel' with being bereft of all truth and compassion because of their lack...
Hosea 4:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES .— Hosea 4:1 . Controv.] = a legal action (cf. Micah 6:2 ; Joel 3:2 ), or ground of complaint with the ten tribes ( Hosea 4:15 ). Truth] i.e. truthfulness in word or deed, no...
Hosea 4:2 - 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 4:2 - 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 4:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The First Part of the Accusation
Hosea 4:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 2:15 ; Acts 7:52 ; Ezekiel 22:2-13 ; Ezekiel 22:25-30 ; Hosea 5:2 ; Hosea 6:9 ; Isaiah 24:5 ; Isaiah 48:1 ; Isaiah 59:12-15 ; Isaiah 59:2-8 ; Jeremiah 23:10-14 ; Jeremiah...
Hosea 4:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Break out — As waters that swell above all banks. Toucheth blood — Slaughters are multiplied; so that the end of one is the beginning of another.

Hosea 4:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hosea 4:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Hosea 4:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 4:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Hosea 4:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 4:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Hosea 4:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Hosea 4:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Hosea 4:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 4:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hosea 4:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Hosea 4:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Hosea 4:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hosea 4:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hosea 4:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hosea 4:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hosea 4:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 4:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hosea 4:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hosea 4:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 4:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Hosea 4:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 4:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Hosea 4:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hosea 4:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 4:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes