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Hosea 5:2

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Idolatry;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Tabor;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hosea;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hosea;   Rebuke;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Rebels are deeply involved in slaughter;I will be a punishment for all of them.
Hebrew Names Version
The rebels are deep in slaughter; But I discipline all of them.
King James Version
And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
English Standard Version
And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them.
New American Standard Bible
And the rebels have gone deep in depravity, But I will discipline all of them.
New Century Version
You have done many evil things, so I will punish you all.
Amplified Bible
The revolters have gone deep into depravity, But I [the LORD God] will chastise them all.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Yet they were profounde, to decline to slaughter, though I haue bene a rebuker of them all.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The revolters have gone deep in depravity, But I will chastise all of them.
Legacy Standard Bible
And the revolters have dug deep into slaughtering,But I will chastise all of them.
Berean Standard Bible
The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I will chastise all of them.
Contemporary English Version
At the place of worship you were a treacherous pit, and I will punish you.
Complete Jewish Bible
The rebels have deepened their slaughter, and I am rejected by all of them.
Darby Translation
And they have plunged themselves in the corruption of apostasy, but I will be a chastiser of them all.
Easy-to-Read Version
You have done many evil things, so I will punish you all.
George Lamsa Translation
And the hunters who hunt have laid hidden snares, but I will chastise them all.
Good News Translation
a deep pit at Acacia City, and I will punish all of you.
Lexham English Bible
they dug a deep pit in Shittim, but I am a punishment for all of them.
Literal Translation
And revolters have gone deep in slaughtering, and I chasten all of them.
American Standard Version
And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.
Bible in Basic English
They have gone deep in the evil ways of Shittim, but I am the judge of all.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they that fall away are gone deep in making slaughter; and I am rejected of them all.
King James Version (1611)
And the reuolters are profound to make slaughter, though I haue bene a rebuker of them all.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They kyll sacrifices by heapes, and turne farre from the Lord, and I haue ben a rebuker of them all.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
which they that hunt the prey have fixed: but I will correct you.
English Revised Version
And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.
World English Bible
The rebels are deep in slaughter; But I discipline all of them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And ye bowiden doun sacrifices in to depthe; and Y am the lernere of alle hem.
Update Bible Version
And the revolters have gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I [have been] a rebuker of them all.
New English Translation
Those who revolt are knee-deep in slaughter, but I will discipline them all.
New King James Version
The revolters are deeply involved in slaughter, Though I rebuke them all.
New Living Translation
You have dug a deep pit to trap them at Acacia Grove. But I will settle with you for what you have done.
New Life Bible
Those who will not obey have gone deep into sin, but I will punish all of them.
New Revised Standard
and a pit dug deep in Shittim; but I will punish all of them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, a slaughter, have apostates deeply designed, - though, I, was a rebuker to them all.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And you have turned aside victims into the depth and I am the teacher of them all.
Revised Standard Version
And they have made deep the pit of Shittim; but I will chastise all of them.
Young's Literal Translation
And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, And I [am] a fetter to them all.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They kyll sacrifices by heapes, to begyle the people therwith: therfore wil I punysh them all.

Contextual Overview

1 "Listen to this, priests! Attention, people of Israel! Royal family—all ears! You're in charge of justice around here. But what have you done? Exploited people at Mizpah, ripped them off on Tabor, Victimized them at Shittim. I'm going to punish the lot of you. 3"I know you, Ephraim, inside and out. Yes, Israel, I see right through you! Ephraim, you've played your sex-and-religion games long enough. All Israel is thoroughly polluted. They couldn't turn to God if they wanted to. Their evil life is a bad habit. Every breath they take is a whore's breath. They wouldn't recognize God if they saw me. 5"Bloated by arrogance, big as a house, they're a public disgrace, The lot of them—Israel, Ephraim, Judah— lurching and weaving down their guilty streets. When they decide to get their lives together and go off looking for God once again, They'll find it's too late. I, God , will be long gone. They've played fast and loose with me for too long, filling the country with their bastard offspring. A plague of locusts will devastate their violated land.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the revolters: Hosea 6:9, Hosea 9:15, Jeremiah 6:28

profound: Psalms 64:3-6, Psalms 140:1-5, Isaiah 29:15, Jeremiah 11:18, Jeremiah 11:19, Jeremiah 18:18, Luke 22:2-5, Acts 23:12-15

though: or, and, etc

a rebuker: Heb. a correction, Hosea 6:5, Isaiah 1:5, Jeremiah 5:3, Jeremiah 25:3-7, Amos 4:6-12, Zephaniah 3:1, Zephaniah 3:2, Revelation 3:19

Reciprocal: Hosea 4:2 - toucheth

Cross-References

Genesis 2:15
God took the Man and set him down in the Garden of Eden to work the ground and keep it in order.
Genesis 2:23
The Man said, "Finally! Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh! Name her Woman for she was made from Man." Therefore a man leaves his father and mother and embraces his wife. They become one flesh. The two of them, the Man and his Wife, were naked, but they felt no shame.
Matthew 19:4
He answered, "Haven't you read in your Bible that the Creator originally made man and woman for each other, male and female? And because of this, a man leaves father and mother and is firmly bonded to his wife, becoming one flesh—no longer two bodies but one. Because God created this organic union of the two sexes, no one should desecrate his art by cutting them apart."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the revolters are profound to make slaughter,.... The revolters are the king, priests, and people, who had revolted from the true worship and ways of God unto idolatry. These formed deep laid schemes, and took crafty methods, like hawkers; who lay themselves flat upon the ground to manage their snares and nets, and observe the creatures that fall into them, and take them, and whom they artfully decoy, to which the allusion is; and that either to slay those who would not comply with their false worship; or rather to multiply the sacrifices of slain beasts, and offer them with a great show of devotion and religion, and thereby beguile, entice, and ensnare simple and unwary souls; so the Targum,

"they sacrifice to idols abundantly;''

and which, in the sight of God, was mere slaughter and butchery:

though I [have been] a rebuker of them all; king, priests, and prophets; those idolaters, revolters, or worshippers of Baal, as Aben Ezra calls them: this is to be interpreted either of the prophet, who had freely, faithfully, and openly reproved all orders of men for their departure from God and his worship, and for their idolatrous practices; or of the Lord himself, which comes to the same sense, who had rebuked them by his prophets, and corrected them by his judgments, but to no purpose: and therefore they could not plead ignorance, or excuse themselves upon that account.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the revolters are profound to make slaughter - Literally, “They made the slaughter deep,” as Isaiah says, “they deeply corupted themselves” Isaiah 31:6; and our old writers say “He smote deep.” They willed also doubtless to “make it deep,” hide it so deep, that God should never know it, as the Psalmist says of the ungodly, “that the inward self and heart of the worker’s of iniquity is deep,” whereon it follows, that God should “suddenly wound them,” as here the prophet subjoins that God rebuked them. Actual and profuse murder has been already Hosea 4:2 mentioned as one of the common sins of Israel, and it is afterward Hosea 6:9 also charged upon the priests.

Though I have been a rebuker - Literally, “a rebuke,” as the Psalmist says, “I am prayer” Psalms 109:4, i. e., “I am all prayer.” The Psalmist’s whole being was turned into prayer. So here, all the attributes of God, His mercies, love, justice, were concentrated into one, and that one, rebuke. Rebuke was the one form, in which they were all seen. It is an aggravation of crime to do it in the place of judgment or in the presence of the judge. Israel was immersed in his sin and heeded not, although God rebuked him continually by His voice in the law, forbidding all idolatry, and was now all the while, both in word and deed, rebuking him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 5:2. The revolters are profound to make slaughter — Here may be a reference to the practice of hunters, making deep pits in the ground, and lightly covering them over, that the beasts, not discovering them, might fall in, and become a prey.

Though I have been a Rebuker — "I will bring chastisement on them all." As they have made victims of others to their idolatry, I will make victims of them to my justice. Some have thought that as many as wished to depart from the idolatrous worship set up by Jeroboam, were slaughtered; and thus Jeroboam the son of Nebat MADE Israel to sin.


 
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