Hosea 6:10

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 degree that the whole land was defiled.

Related Commentaries of 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, a...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

whoredom . idolatry. See note on Hosea 1:2 .
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 vai...
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 t...
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 dange...
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...
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...
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 closel...
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 b...
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...
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 detestat...
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 th...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Promises and Expostulations; The Crimes of the People. B. C. 758....
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 ho...
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 hein...
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...
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 d...
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 chapt...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel, abominable things happening in the northern kingdom; there is the whoredom of Ephraim, its sh...
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 ; Jeremia...
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 defi...

¹⁰ I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Related Commentaries of Hosea 6:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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