Hosea 5:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

Toward you] RV 'unto you.' Judgment belongs to you by right, and having abused your privilege you deserve greater punishment.

Mizpah and Tabor are both spoken of as ancient sanctuaries: cp Judges 21:1; Judges 21:8; 1 Samuel 7:5-10, and see on Hosea 4:13. The assemblies for religious and political purposes had been made occasions for robbing the people by unjust judgments and perhaps by extortionate demands for sacrifices: see on Hosea 4:8;

Hosea 5:1

1 Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.