Hosea 5:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.a ”

Hosea 5:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore I will be unto Ephraim a moth - Literally, “and I as a moth.” This form of speaking expresses what God was doing, while Ephraim was “willingly following” sin. “And I” was all the while...
Hosea 5:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Here the immoral cultus is no longer the subject, but the inner moral corruption of the state and its leaders. The parallelism of Judah and Ephraim in this section is remarkable, but seems to be orig...
Hosea 5:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Therefore will. be . For. [am]. rottenness: or,. worm.
Hosea 5:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

God now denounces punishment in common on the two kingdoms; but he speaks not as before, he says not that his fury would be like a deluge, to overwhelm and drown the people. What then? He compa...
Hosea 5:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. Unto Ephraim as a moth - I will consume them by little and little, as a moth frets a garment.
Hosea 5:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth— A moth in the garment, a worm in the flesh. From small and unperceived beginnings, working a slow, but certain and complete destruction.
Hosea 5:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth - consuming a garment ( Job 13:28 ; Psalms 39:11 ; Isaiah 50:...
Hosea 5:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Predictions of Punishment The priests, the people, and the royal dynasty have alike sinned, and will alike be punished. Their coquetting with Assyria will prove utterly futile. Judah has also sinn...
Hosea 5:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Rottenness. — The Authorised version is right in this rendering (the disease caries ) rather than worm (margin). Both images express concealed causes of irreparable destruction which come sudden...
Hosea 5:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2. PRIESTS AND PRINCES FAIL Hosea 5:1-14 The line followed in this paragraph is almost parallel to that of chapter 4, running out to a prospect of invasion. But the charge is directed solely ag...
Hosea 5:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

God's Rebuke of Apostasy Hosea 5:1-15 The prophet continues his grave indictment of his people. The court and the priesthood were chiefly responsible for the awful degeneracy that was eating ou...
Hosea 5:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Having thus declared the cause of pollution, the prophet's next message was especially addressed to priest, people, and king. First to the priests and the king as elders, and consequently responsible...
Hosea 5:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The Prophet Hosea useth many similitudes, in order to convey yet more forcibly his divine truths; but the whole of what is here said, is much to one and the same purpose; namely, the defection of Isr...
Hosea 5:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Therefore [will] I [be] unto Ephraim as a moth ,.... Which eats garments, penetrates into them, feeds on them privately, secretly, without any noise, and gradually and slowly consumes them; but at l...
Hosea 5:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Therefore [will] I [be] unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. Ver. 12. Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth ] Their sin was the greater because they were so willin...
Hosea 5:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment He is delivered over to oppressors by God's just judgment. Such were Pul and Tiglath-pileser, kings of Assyria. Archbishop Newcome distinguishes between...
Hosea 5:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings of Judgment. B. C. 758. 8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet...
Hosea 5:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Therefore, or And , Heb. I will be ; I am; it is concise in the Hebrew, and might be thus expressed, But, or And, as for me, I am, and will be, to the ten tribes. As a moth: moths do leisurely...
Hosea 5:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ephraim Are To Prepare For An Invasion Which Will Lead To Their Desolation Whilst Judah Will Be Punished For Taking Advantage Of The Situation To Seize Land. Both Will Suffer As A Consequence. Meanw...
Hosea 5:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES .— Hosea 5:12 . Moth and rottenness] Destructive powers, one injuring cloths, the other wood and flesh; slowly but surely do they work ( Job 13:28 ). The sinner has foes within an...
Hosea 5:12 - Scofield Reference Notes

Vanity ; meaning of word, ( See Scofield) - ( Ecclesiastes 1:2 ). Veil ; of Tabernacle, type, ( See Scofield) - ( Exodus 26:31 ). Veil ; of Temple, rent, ( See Scofield) - ( Matth...
Hosea 5:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 5:1 . Ye have been a snare and a net spread upon Tabor. This was a high mountain of Galilee, in the lot of Zebulon, called by the Greeks Itabyricum, having a plain on the top. Idolatry has e...
Hosea 5:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth. The moth; or God’s quiet method of destroying “And I am like the moth to Ephraim, and like the worm to the house of Judah.”--Keil and Delitzsch. “The...
Hosea 5:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Hosea 5:1 Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king. The persons here addressed comprise all the estates of the realm—pries...
Hosea 5:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Threat of Punishment
Hosea 5:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 50:9 ; Isaiah 51:8 ; Job 13:28 ; Jonah 4:7 ; Mark 9:44-48 ; Proverbs 12:4
Hosea 5:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A moth — Moths leisurely eat up our clothes; so God was then, and had been, from Jeroboam's death, weakening the ten tribes. As rottenness — Secretly consuming them.

Hosea 5:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hosea 5:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 5:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Hosea 5:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 5:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Hosea 5:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Hosea 5:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Hosea 5:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 5:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hosea 5:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Hosea 5:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Hosea 5:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hosea 5:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hosea 5:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hosea 5:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hosea 5:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 5:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hosea 5:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hosea 5:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 5:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Hosea 5:12 - Scofield Reference Notes

Hosea 5:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 5:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Hosea 5:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Hosea 5:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hosea 5:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 5:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes