Hosea 6:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. ”

Hosea 6:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have seen a horrible thing - Literally, “what would make one shudder.” God had seen it; therefore man could not deny it. In the sight of God, and amid the sense of His presence, all excuses fai...
Hosea 6:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 6:4 to Hosea 7:2 . Israel's Moral Condition Hopelessly Corrupt. The shallow expressions of loyalty by the fickle people mean nothing, and cannot avert Yahweh's inevitable judgment. He look...
Hosea 6:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

whoredom . idolatry. See note on Hosea 1:2 .
Hosea 6:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here God declares that he is the fit judge to take cognizance of the vices of Israel; and this he does, that he might cut off the handle of vain excuses, which hypocrites often adduce when they...
Hosea 6:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. I have seen a horrible thing - That is, the idolatry that prevailed in Israel to such a de...
Hosea 6:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel - ( Jeremiah 5:30 ; Jeremiah 1...
Hosea 6:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Shallowness of Israel's Repentance Hosea now represents the people as counselling one another to repentance in presence of the impending danger; and goes on to point out the futility of a hurr...
Hosea 6:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

House of Israel. — This phrase means Ephraim and Judah subsequently discriminated. The “horrible thing” refers to polluting idolatry. This peculiar word occurs again in Jeremiah. According to the p...
Hosea 6:10 - 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 6:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Let Us Return unto the Lord” Hosea 6:1-11 How full Scripture is of tender invitations: Come, and let us return! This opening verse is closely connected with Hosea 5:15 . The hand that smote...
Hosea 6:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here we have the prophet's appeal in consequence of the judgment threatened. It was first a message calling the people to return to Jehovah. It was based on the certainty of divine pity; and a promis...
Hosea 6:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We find here the same melancholy account, as in the other parts of this prophecy; the Lord complaining of his people's apostacy; Gilead and the house of Israel; Ephraim and Judah; all alike transgres...
Hosea 6:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel ,.... Idolatry, the calves set up at Dan and Bethel, which God saw with abhorrence and detestation; or the prophet saw it, and it made his hair s...
Hosea 6:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there [is] the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. Ver. 10. I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel ] Now a very den of thi...
Hosea 6:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I have seen a horrible thing Such an apostacy from God as cannot be mentioned without horror. There is the whoredom of Ephraim Or rather, there , namely, in the house of Israel, BY the whoredo...
Hosea 6:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Promises and Expostulations; The Crimes of the People. B. C. 758. 4 O Ephraim, what sh...
Hosea 6:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I have seen: it may be understood of the prophet speaking what he had seen; or of God, who seeth now, and hath seen, an horrible thing, a very horrible thing, as some observe from the word, in th...
Hosea 6:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, So the company of priests murder in the way towards Shechem, Yes, they have committed mischief (or ‘a heinous crime'), In the house of Israel I have seen a...
Hosea 6:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES .— Hosea 6:8 . Gilead] A city of refuge, the residence of priests, and the centre or metropolis of the hilly region beyond Jordan, yet polluted and the leader of ruin! Hosea 6...
Hosea 6:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 6:2 . After two days will he revive us. The Chaldaic paraphrase gives a double acceptation to this text, that the Messiah should raise the dead, and that he should also revive and heal the c...
Hosea 6:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Hosea 6:1-28 These three verses have, by the division into chapters, been violently and improperly torn from the preceding chapter, to which they naturally belong. Their connecti...
Hosea 6:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

An Earnest Invitation and a Further Admonition. Having stated his threat in a most uncompromising form, the prophet adds a powerful appeal to the people of his nation to heed the warning of the Lo...
Hosea 6:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 12:8 ; 1 Kings 15:30 ; 2 Kings 17:7 ; Ezekiel 23:5 ; Hosea 4:11 ; Hosea 4:17 ; Hosea 5:3 ; Jeremiah 18:13 ; Jeremiah 2:12 ; Jeremiah 2:13 ; Jeremiah 23:14 ; Jeremiah 3:6 ; Jeremi...
Hosea 6:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The whoredom — Idolatry. Of Ephraim — Which was brought in by an Ephraimite, by Jeroboam, two hundred years ago, and is there still. Israel is defiled — It hath overspread all Israel.

Hosea 6:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hosea 6:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 6:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Hosea 6:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 6:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Hosea 6:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Hosea 6:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 6:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hosea 6:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Hosea 6:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Hosea 6:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hosea 6:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hosea 6:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hosea 6:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hosea 6:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 6:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hosea 6:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hosea 6:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 6:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Hosea 6:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 6:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Hosea 6:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hosea 6:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 6:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes