Hosea 4:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroyb thy mother. ”

Hosea 4:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore shalt thou fall - The two parts of the verse fill up each other. “By day and by night shall they fall, people and prophets together.” Their calamities should come upon them successively...
Hosea 4:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Therefore shalt thou fall in the (d) day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy (e) mother. (d) You will both perish together as one, because the former woul...
Hosea 4:5 - 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 4:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

fall . stumble. in the day. Compare Jeremiah 6:4 ; Jeremiah 6:5 and Hos 15:8. destroy . lay prostrate. thy mother: i. e. the whole nation is referred to, as is clear from verses: Hosea 4...
Hosea 4:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The copulative is to be taken here for an illative, Fall, therefore, shalt thou. Here God denounces vengeance on refractory men; as though he said, “As ye pay no regard to my authority, when...
Hosea 4:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. Therefore shalt thou fall in the day - In the most open and public manner,...
Hosea 4:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

In the day— "Not for want of light to see thy way; but in the full day-light of divine instruction thou shalt fall: even at the rising of that light, which is for the lighting of every man that com...
Hosea 4:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. Therefore shalt thou fall in the day - in broad daylight, a time w...
Hosea 4:5 - 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 4:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The priest’s function is discharged in the day, and the prophet dreams in the night. Both will totter to their fall. Thy mother — i.e. , thy nation.
Hosea 4:5 - 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 4:5 - 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 4:5 - 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 4:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here the Lord follows the sins of his people with his threatened punishments. And it is not the smallest in the account, that the priest and Prophet shall have no weight with the people. Where the Lo...
Hosea 4:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Therefore shall thou fall in the day ,.... Either, O ye people, everyone of you, being so refractory and incorrigible; or, O thou priest, being as bad as the people; for both, on account of their si...
Hosea 4:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. Ver. 5. Therefore shalt thou fall ] How could they do otherwise that we...
Hosea 4:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another Bishop Horsley translates this clause, By no means let any one expostulate, nor let any one reprove; adding, by way of paraphrase, “For all expostulatio...
Hosea 4:5 - 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 4:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Therefore, because thy sins are so many and so great, and thou art incorrigible in them, shalt thou fall; the prophet turns his speech to the people, thou, O Israel; he speaks to them as to one p...
Hosea 4:5 - 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 4:5 - 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 4:5 - 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 4:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. Common destruction The threatening is that destruction should come u...
Hosea 4:5 - 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 4:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The First Part of the Accusation
Hosea 4:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 13:9-16 ; Ezekiel 14:8-10 ; Ezekiel 16:44 ; Ezekiel 16:45 ; Galatians 4:26 ; Hosea 2:2 ; Hosea 9:7 ; Hosea 9:8 ; Isaiah 50:1 ; Isaiah 9:13-17 ; Jeremiah 14:15 ; Jeremiah 14:16 ;...
Hosea 4:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Therefore — The prophet turns his speech to the people, thou O Israel; he speaks to them as to one person. Fall — Stumble, and fall, and be broken. This day — Very suddenly; your fall shall be no l...

Hosea 4:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hosea 4:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Hosea 4:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 4:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Hosea 4:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 4:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Hosea 4:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Hosea 4:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Hosea 4:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 4:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hosea 4:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Hosea 4:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Hosea 4:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hosea 4:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hosea 4:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hosea 4:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hosea 4:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 4:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hosea 4:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hosea 4:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 4:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Hosea 4:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 4:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Hosea 4:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Hosea 4:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hosea 4:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 4:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes