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 an horrible thing in the house of Israel - (Jeremiah 5:30; Jeremiah 18:13; Jeremiah 23:14).

There is the whoredom of Ephraim - "whoredom," idolatry.

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

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Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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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

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Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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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

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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

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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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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

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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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

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the 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

Hosea 6:10