Hosea 6:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But they like menb have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. ”

Hosea 6:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But they like men - Or (better as in the E. M) “like Adam, have transgressed the covenant.” As Adam our first parent, in Paradise, not out of any pressure, but wantonly, through self-will and pri...
Hosea 6:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

But they (g) like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. (g) That is, like small and weak persons.
Hosea 6:7 - 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 6:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

like men. Hebrew like Adam. men. Hebrew. 'adam. App-14. Compare Job 31:33 . Psalms 49:12 ; Psalms 82:7 . transgressed . rebelled. Heb 'abar . App-44. the covenant. See Joshua 24:1 ;...
Hosea 6:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

God then subjoins a complaint, — But they like men have transgressed the covenant; there have they dealt treacherously against me. Here God shows that the Israelites boasted in vain of their...
Hosea 6:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1157 OUR TRANSGRESSIONS OF THE COVENANT Hosea 6:7 . But they, like men, have transgressed the covenant . THE merciful nature of God’s dispensations greatly aggravates our guilt in vi...
Hosea 6:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. But they like men (כאדם keadam, "like Adam") have transgressed the covenant - They have sinned agains...
Hosea 6:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Like men— It should be rendered, Like Adam. As Adam transgressed a plain command; so the Israelites transgressed the plainest and the easiest precepts. As Adam's crime was not to be excused by an...
Hosea 6:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. But they, like men, have transgressed the covenant - the common sort of men ( Psalms 82:7 , "...
Hosea 6:7 - 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 6:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Critics differ much as to the interpretation of this verse. The marginal rendering supplies the strongest meaning. God made a covenant with Adam, and promised him the blessings of Paradise on conditi...
Hosea 6:7 - 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 6:7 - 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 6:7 - 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 6:7 - 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 6:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But they, like men, have transgressed the covenant ,.... The false prophets, as Aben Ezra, whom he threatened to cut off and slay, Hosea 6:5 ; or rather Ephraim and Judah, whose goodness was so fic...
Hosea 6:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. Ver. 7. But they like men ] Heb. like Adam, that archrebel, that old παραβατης, after the simili...
Hosea 6:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But they like men have transgressed the covenant That is, as all corrupt men are prone to do; and as other men, who are not under such strong obligations to keep covenant with me, use to do. In the...
Hosea 6:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Promises and Expostulations; The Crimes of the People. B. C. 758. 4 O Ephraim, what sh...
Hosea 6:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I told them by my prophets what I required of them by covenant, but I could not obtain it, they regarded not what I said. Like men; or, like Adam: some take it for a proper name, and so refer it un...
Hosea 6:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘But they like Adam (or ‘men') have transgressed the covenant. There have they dealt treacherously against me. Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, It is stained with blood. Three views a...
Hosea 6:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES .— Hosea 6:6 . Sac .] which they brought. Mercy ] which they lacked; a comparison by negatives; things less worthy are rejected. Moral obedience is better than ritual offerings (...
Hosea 6:7 - 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 6:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

But they, like men, have transgressed the covenant. The breach of the covenant of works General defection is a cause and presage of a sweeping stroke. 1. The crime charged on them. Covenant...
Hosea 6:7 - 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 6:7 - 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 6:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 17:15 ; Ezekiel 16:59-61 ; Genesis 3:11 ; Genesis 3:6 ; Hebrews 8:9 ; Hosea 5:7 ; Hosea 8:1 ; Isaiah 24:16 ; Isaiah 24:5 ; Isaiah 48:8 ; Jeremiah 3:7 ; Jeremiah 31:32 ; Jeremiah...
Hosea 6:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The covenant — The law of their God. There — In that very place, the good land which by covenant I gave them: they have broken my covenant.

Hosea 6:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hosea 6:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Hosea 6:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 6:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Hosea 6:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 6:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Hosea 6:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Hosea 6:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Hosea 6:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Hosea 6:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 6:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hosea 6:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Hosea 6:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Hosea 6:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hosea 6:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hosea 6:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hosea 6:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hosea 6:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 6:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hosea 6:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hosea 6:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 6:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Hosea 6:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 6:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Hosea 6:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Hosea 6:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hosea 6:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 6:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes