Isaiah 50:9; Isaiah 51:8; Job 13:28; Jonah 4:7; Mark 9:44-48; Proverbs 12:4
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 “wi...
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 i...
Therefore will. be . For. [am]. rottenness: or,. worm.
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 o...
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 l...
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...
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...
Predictions of Punishment The priests, the people, and the royal dynasty have alike sinned, and will alike be punished. Their coquetting with Assy...
Rottenness. — The Authorised version is right in this rendering (the disease caries ) rather than worm (margin). Both images express concealed c...
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...
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...
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 respo...
Having thus declared the cause of pollution, the prophet's next message was especially addressed to priest, people, and king. First to the priests an...
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...
Therefore [will] I [be] unto Ephraim as a moth ,.... Which eats garments, penetrates into them, feeds on them privately, secretly, without any noise...
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 ] The...
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...
Threatenings of Judgment. B. C. 758. ...
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, t...
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 Se...
‘Therefore am I to Ephraim as a moth, And to the house of Judah as rottenness (decay).' Central to the passage (see the analysis above) is a descri...
CRITICAL NOTES .— Hosea 5:12 . Moth and rottenness] Destructive powers, one injuring cloths, the other wood and flesh; slowly but surely do they...
Vanity ; meaning of word, ( See Scofield) - ( Ecclesiastes 1:2 ). Veil ; of Tabernacle, type, ( See Scofield) - ( Exodus 26:31 ). Ve...
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 Ita...
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...
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 add...
The Threat of Punishment
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth and to the house of Judah as rottenness, both of these being figurative of destructive powers, which stead...
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 — Secret...
12 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.a