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Green's Literal Translation

Hosea 11:6

And the sword shall whirl in his cities, and shall bring to an end his bars, and shall consume, because of their own counsels.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Sword;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Prophecy, prophet;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Destroy, Destruction;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ephraim (1);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hosea;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Staves;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
The sword will swing against their cities and kill their strong men. It will destroy their leaders.
New American Standard Bible
And the sword will whirl against their cities, And will destroy their oracle priests And consume them, because of their counsels.
New Century Version
War will sweep through their cities and will destroy them and kill them because of their wicked plans.
New English Translation
A sword will flash in their cities, it will destroy the bars of their city gates, and will devour them in their fortresses.
Update Bible Version
And the sword shall fall on their cities, and shall consume their bars, and devour [them], because of their own counsels.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour [them], because of their own counsels.
Amplified Bible
The sword will whirl against and fall on their cities, And will demolish the bars of their gates and fortifications And will consume them because of their counsels.
English Standard Version
The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them because of their own counsels.
World English Bible
The sword will fall on their cities, And will consume their gate bars, And will put an end to their plans.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A swerd bigan in the citees therof, and it schal waaste the chosun men therof, and schal eete the heedis of hem.
English Revised Version
And the sword shall fall upon his cities, and shall consume his bars, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
Berean Standard Bible
A sword will whirl through their cities; it will destroy the bars of their gates and consume them in their own plans.
Contemporary English Version
War will visit their cities, and their plans will fail.
American Standard Version
And the sword shall fall upon their cities, and shall consume their bars, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
Bible in Basic English
And the sword will go through his towns, wasting his children and causing destruction because of their evil designs.
Complete Jewish Bible
The sword will fall on his cities, destroying the bars of his gates, because they follow their own advice.
Darby Translation
and the sword shall turn about in his cities, and shall consume his bars, and devour [them], because of their own counsels.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the sword shall fall upon his cities, and shall consume his bars, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
King James Version (1611)
And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and deuoure them, because of their own counsels.
New Living Translation
War will swirl through their cities; their enemies will crash through their gates. They will destroy them, trapping them in their own evil plans.
New Life Bible
The sword will come upon their cities and destroy their gates. And it will destroy them because of their plans.
New Revised Standard
The sword rages in their cities, it consumes their oracle-priests, and devours because of their schemes.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the sworde shall fall on his cities, and shall consume his barres, and deuoure them, because of their owne counsels.
George Lamsa Translation
The sword shall cause pain in their cities and consume their possessions, and they shall suffer because of their evil counsels.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore shall the sword, rage, in his cities, and make an end of his multitudes, and consume them, - because of their counsels.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The sword hath begun in his cities, and it shall consume his chosen men, and shall devour their heads.
Revised Standard Version
The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them in their fortresses.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therfore shall the sworde fall on his cities, & shall consume his braunches, and deuour them, because of their owne counsayles.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And in his cities he prevailed not with the sword, and he ceased to war with his hands: and they shall eat of the fruit of their own devices:
Good News Translation
War will sweep through their cities and break down the city gates. It will destroy my people because they do what they themselves think best.
Christian Standard Bible®
A sword will whirl through his cities;it will destroy and devour the bars of his gates,because of their schemes.
Hebrew Names Version
The sword will fall on their cities, And will consume their gate bars, And will put an end to their plans.
King James Version
And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
Lexham English Bible
The sword rages in his cities; it consumes his false prophets and devours because of their plans.
Young's Literal Translation
Grievous hath been the sword in his cities, And it hath ended his bars, and consumed -- from their own counsels.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore shal ye swearde begynne in their cities, the stoare that they haue lickened vnto, shall be destroyed and eaten vp: and that because of their owne ymaginacions.
New King James Version
And the sword shall slash in his cities, Devour his districts, And consume them, Because of their own counsels.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sword will whirl against their cities, And will demolish their gate bars And consume them because of their counsels.
Legacy Standard Bible
And the sword will whirl against their citiesAnd will consume their gate barsAnd devour them because of their counsels.

Contextual Overview

1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and I called My Son out of Egypt. 2 As they called to them, so they went from their face. They sacrifice to the Baals, and burn incense to graven images. 3 I also taught Ephraim to go; He took them on His arms. But they did not know that I healed them. 4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love. And I was to them as those who lift off the yoke on their jaws; and I extended food to him. 5 He shall not return to the land of Egypt, but he of Assyria shall be his king, because they refused to return. 6 And the sword shall whirl in his cities, and shall bring to an end his bars, and shall consume, because of their own counsels. 7 And My people are bent on backsliding from Me. And they call him to the Most High; no one at all would exalt Him .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the sword: Hosea 10:14, Hosea 13:16, Leviticus 26:31, Leviticus 26:33, Deuteronomy 28:52, Deuteronomy 32:25, Jeremiah 5:17, Micah 5:11

consume: Psalms 80:11-16, Isaiah 9:14, Isaiah 18:5, Isaiah 27:10, Ezekiel 15:2-7, Ezekiel 20:47, Malachi 4:1

because: Hosea 10:6, Psalms 106:39, Psalms 106:43, Isaiah 30:1

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 2:26 - sword Jeremiah 50:35 - sword Hosea 5:9 - Ephraim Hosea 13:2 - according Amos 3:11 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 3:22
And Jehovah God said, Behold! The man has become as one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put forth his hand and also take from the Tree of Life, and eat, and live forever,
Genesis 6:5
And Jehovah saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the day long.
Genesis 8:21
And Jehovah smelled the soothing fragrance, and Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground for the sake of man, because the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth. Yea, I will not again smite every living thing as I have done.
Genesis 9:19
These are the three sons of Noah, and the whole earth was overspread from them.
Genesis 11:1
And the whole earth was of one lip and of one speech.
Genesis 11:4
And they said, Come, let us build a city and a tower with its head in the heavens, and make a name for ourselves, that we not be scattered on the face of all the earth.
Judges 10:14
Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.
1 Kings 18:27
And it happened at noon, that Elijah taunted them and said, Call with a loud voice, for he is a god; for he is meditating, or pursuing, or on a journey; it may be he is asleep and must be awakened.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth. And make your heart glad in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
Luke 1:51
He performed mightily with His arm; He scattered proud ones in the thought of their heart.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the sword shall abide on the cities,.... Or "shall fall" y, and continue; meaning the sword of the Assyrians, whereby Ephraim should be brought into subjection to them, and the king of Assyria become king over them; his sword should be drawn, and rest upon them, not only on their chief city Samaria, besieged three years by him, but upon all their other cities, which would fall into his hands, with the inhabitants of them:

and shall consume his branches, and devour [them]; that is, the towns and villages adjoining to the cities; which were to them as branches are to a tree, sprung from them, and were supported by them; and, being near them, prospered or suffered as they did: some render it, "his bars" z, as the word is sometimes used, and interpret it of the great men and nobles of the land. So the Targum,

"and it shall slay his mighty men, and destroy his princes;''

with which Jarchi agrees;

because of their own counsels; which they took and pursued, contrary to the counsel of God, the revelation of his mind and will; particularly in setting up idolatrous worship, and continuing in it, notwithstanding all the admonitions, exhortations, counsels, and threatenings of God by his prophets; or else because of their counsels with the Egyptians, and their covenants with them, for help against the Assyrian, whose yoke they were for casting off, and refused to pay tribute to; which provoked him to draw his sword upon them, which made the havoc it did in their cities, and the inhabitants of them.

y חלה "cedet", Calvin; "incidet", Schmidt; "irruet", Zanchius, Drusius, Liveleus. z בדיו "vectes ejus", Schmidt. So some in Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the sword shall abide on his cities - Literally, “shall light, shall whirl” down upon. It shall come with violence upon them as a thing whirled with force, and then it shall alight and abide, to their destruction; as Jeremiah says, “a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury, a grievous whirlwind; it shall fall grievously (literally, whirl down) on the head of the wicked” Jeremiah 23:19. As God said to David, after the murder of Uriah, “Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house” 2 Samuel 12:10, so as to Israel, whose kings were inaugurated by bloodshed. By God’s appointment, “blood will have blood.” Their own sword first came down and rested upon them; then the sword of the Assyrian. So after they “had killed the Holy One and the Just,” the sword of the Zealots came down and rested upon them, before the destruction by the Romans.

And shall consume his branches - that is, his mighty men. It is all one, whether the mighty men are so called, by metaphor, from the “branches of” a tree, or from the “bars” of a city, made out of those branches. Their mighty men, so far from escaping for their might, should be the first to perish.

And devour them, because of their own counsels - Their counsels, wise after this world’s wisdom, were without God, against the counsels of God. Their destruction then should come from their own wisdom, as it is said, “Let them fall by their own counsels” Psalms 5:10, and Job saith, “He taketh the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong” Job 5:13, i. e., it is the clean contrary of what they intend or plan; they purpose, as they think, warily; an unseen power whirls their scheme on and precipitates it. “And his own counsel shall cast him down” Job 18:7; and above; “Israel shall be ashamed through his own counsels” Job 10:6. Hoshea’s conspiracy with So, which was to have been his support against Assyria, brought Assyria against him, and his people into captivity.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 11:6. The sword shall abide on his cities — Israel was agitated with external and intestine wars from the time of Jeroboam the Second. Although Zechariah his son reigned twelve years, yet it was in continual troubles; and he was at last slain by the rebel Shallum, who, having reigned one month, was slain by Menahem. Pekahiah succeeded his father Menahem, and reigned two years, and was killed by Pekah, son of Remaliah. He joined Rezin, king of Syria, and made an irruption into the land of Judah; but Ahaz having obtained succour from Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria, Pekah was defeated, and the tribes of Reuben, Gad, Naphtali, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, were carried away captives by the Assyrian king; and in a short time after, Hosea, son of Elah, slew Pekah, and usurped the kingdom, which he could not possess without the assistance of Shalmaneser, who for his services imposed a tribute on the Israelitish king. Wishing to rid himself of this yoke, he applied to the king of Egypt; but this being known to Shalmaneser, he came against Samaria, and after a three years' siege took and destroyed it. Thus the sword rested on their cities; it continued in the land till all was ruined. See Calmet.


 
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