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

“ And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them. ”

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

And the pride of Israel - Pride was from the first the leading sin of Ephraim. Together with Manasseh, (with whom they made, in some respects, one whole, as “the children of Joseph, Joshua 16:4...
Hosea 5:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And the (e) pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them. (e) Meaning their condemning of all admonitions.
Hosea 5:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Priests and Rulers are Bringing the Nation to Ruin. Judgment is declared against ( Hosea 5:1 mg. ) [9] the priests and ruling class because they have ensnared the people (by encouraging the mixed...
Hosea 5:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the pride of Israel. An appellation of Jehovah. the excellency, or the glory of Israel. He in Whom Israel should have gloried; so again in Hosea 7:10 . Compare Amos 8:7 , where it is "the Excelle...
Hosea 5:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet having condemned the Israelites on two accounts — for having departed from the true God — and for having obstinately refused every instruction, now adds, that God’s vengeance was ni...
Hosea 5:5 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1150 THE DANGER OF PRIDE Hosea 5:5 . The pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them . ALL pr...
Hosea 5:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them. The pride of Israel doth testify to his face - The effron...
Hosea 5:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And the pride— The arrogance of Israel is discovered in his countenance. Houbigant.
Hosea 5:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them. The pride of Israel - wherewith they reject the w...
Hosea 5:5 - 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 5:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The pride of Israel may be either the true object of pride and boasting, viz., Jehovah Himself (comp. Amos 8:7 ), or the false object of pride to which they had yielded. The latter interpretation...
Hosea 5:5 - 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 5:5 - 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 5:5 - 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 5:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It should seem, that in the days of the Prophet, such was the general defect in the pure worship of the God of Israel, that even the priests and the great men openly opposed the truth. Mizpah and Tab...
Hosea 5:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face ,.... Or, "does" or "shall answer to his face" h; contradicts him, convicts him, and fills him with shame; the pride of his heart, and of his counten...
Hosea 5:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them. Ver. 5. And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face...
Hosea 5:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I know Ephraim I am perfectly well acquainted with the actions of Ephraim, the head of the ten tribes; and Israel is not hid from me And the actions of the other nine tribes are no less known to...
Hosea 5:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Charge against Israel and Judah; Judgments Threatened. B. C. 758. 1 Hear ye this, O prie...
Hosea 5:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The pride of Israel: it might have been rendered, the excellency or glory of Israel; and so, referred to God, it would be a prediction that God himself would witness against Israel. God is said to...
Hosea 5:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judgment Is Announced On The Priests, People And Royal House Of Israel Because Of Their Going Astray In Their Ritual, Something Which Has Prevented Them From Turning To YHWH And Has Made Them Unacce...
Hosea 5:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES .— Hosea 5:5 Pride] The haughtiness of Isa. shall be a witness before God of their folly. Others refer it to Jehovah, the glory of Is., who will witness by judgments and the dest...
Hosea 5:5 - Scofield Reference Notes

Obadiah ; Book of, Introduction, ( See Scofield) - ( Obadiah 1:1 ). Offerings ; law of, the order, ( See Scofield) - ( Leviticus 7:11 ). Oil ; symbol of the Holy Spirit, ( See Sco...
Hosea 5:5 - 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 5:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

And the pride of Israel doth testify to His face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity. The fall of Israel Tiglath pileser died in b.c. 727, and was succeeded by Shalmanese...
Hosea 5:5 - 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 5:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Accusation Against the Priests
Hosea 5:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 17:19 ; 2 Kings 17:20 ; Amos 2:4 ; Amos 2:5 ; Amos 5:2 ; Ezekiel 23:31-35 ; Hosea 14:1 ; Hosea 4:5 ; Hosea 7:10 ; Hosea 5:14 ; Hosea 8:14 ; Isaiah 28:1-3 ; Isaiah 3:9 ; Isaiah 4...
Hosea 5:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Doth testify — Is an evident witness against him.

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

Hosea 5:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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

Hosea 5:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

Hosea 5:5 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hosea 5:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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

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

Hosea 5:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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

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

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

Hosea 5:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Hosea 5:5 - Scofield Reference Notes

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

Hosea 5:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Hosea 5:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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

Hosea 5:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 5:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes