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Hosea 4:2

Hanya mengutuk, berbohong, membunuh, mencuri, berzinah, melakukan kekerasan dan penumpahan darah menyusul penumpahan darah.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Crime;   Dishonesty;   Falsehood;   Homicide;   Sin;   Theft and Thieves;   Thompson Chain Reference - Stealing;   The Topic Concordance - Adultery;   Knowledge;   Lying/lies;   Rejection;   Theft;   Violence;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Lying;   Oaths;   Sins, National;   Swearing, Profane;   Theft;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hosea;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jeroboam;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Knowledge of God;   Lie, Lying;   Murder;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Robbery;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hosea;   Robbery;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Creation;   Hosea;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Truth;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Blood;   Break;   Calf, Golden;   Lie;   Priests and Levites;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Chastity;   Marriage;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Hanya mengutuk, berbohong, membunuh, mencuri, berzinah, melakukan kekerasan dan penumpahan darah menyusul penumpahan darah.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Sumpah dan dusta dan pembunuhan dan curi dan zinahpun meliputi, dan penumpahan darahpun menggantikan penumpahan darah.

Contextual Overview

1 Heare the worde of the Lorde O ye chyldren of Israel, for the Lord hath a controuersie with the inhabitauntes of the lande: for there is no trueth, there is no mercy, there is no knowledge of God in the lande. 2 But swearing, lying, manslaughter, theft, and adulterie, hath gotten the ouer hande, and one bloodgiltinesse foloweth another. 3 Therfore shall the lande mourne, and all they that dwell therein shalbe rooted out, the beastes of the fielde, the foules of the ayre, and the fisshes in the sea, shalbe consumed. 4 Yet let no man rebuke or reproue another, for thy people [are] as they that are at controuersie with the priest. 5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day tyme, and the prophete with thee in the night, and I wyll bryng thy mother to destruction.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

swearing: Isaiah 24:5, Isaiah 48:1, Isaiah 59:2-8, Isaiah 59:12-15, Jeremiah 5:1, Jeremiah 5:2, Jeremiah 5:7-9, Jeremiah 5:26, Jeremiah 5:27, Jeremiah 6:7, Jeremiah 7:6-10, Jeremiah 9:2-8, Jeremiah 23:10-14, Ezekiel 22:2-13, Ezekiel 22:25-30, Micah 2:1-3, Micah 3:2, Micah 3:9, Micah 6:10, Micah 7:2, Zephaniah 3:1, Zechariah 5:3, Zechariah 7:9

blood: Heb. bloods

toucheth: Hosea 5:2, Hosea 6:9, Lamentations 4:13, Matthew 23:35, Acts 7:52, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, Revelation 17:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:11 - filled Genesis 6:13 - filled Numbers 35:33 - it defileth Deuteronomy 28:30 - betroth Psalms 50:19 - tongue Psalms 51:14 - bloodguiltiness Psalms 59:12 - cursing Proverbs 6:17 - lying Isaiah 3:13 - standeth up Isaiah 30:9 - lying Isaiah 59:3 - your hands Isaiah 59:8 - no Isaiah 59:15 - truth Jeremiah 13:27 - thine adulteries Lamentations 4:14 - so that men could not touch Ezekiel 7:23 - for Ezekiel 11:6 - General Ezekiel 21:24 - your transgressions Ezekiel 22:9 - they commit Ezekiel 23:37 - and blood Hosea 4:18 - committed Hosea 7:4 - are all Amos 2:6 - For three Micah 6:12 - the rich Nahum 3:1 - full Zechariah 8:16 - Speak Ephesians 4:25 - putting Ephesians 4:28 - him that 1 Timothy 1:10 - perjured

Cross-References

Genesis 3:23
Therefore the Lorde God sent hym foorth fro the garden of Eden, to worke the grounde whence he was taken.
Genesis 4:25
Adam knewe his wyfe agayne, and she bare a sonne, and called his name Seth: For God [sayde she] hath appoynted me another seede in steade of Habel whom Cain slewe.
Genesis 4:26
And vnto the same Seth also there was borne a sonne, and he called his name Enos: then began men to make inuocation in the name of the Lorde.
Genesis 9:20
Noah also began to be an husbandman, and planted a vineyarde.
Genesis 37:13
And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph: do not thy brethren kepe in Sichem? come, and I wyll sende thee to them.
Genesis 47:3
And Pharao sayd vnto his brethren: what is your occupation? And they aunswered Pharao: thy seruauntes are kepers of cattell, both we, and also our fathers.
Exodus 3:1
Moyses kept the sheepe of Iethro his father in lawe, priest of Madian: and he droue the flocke to the backesyde of the desert, aud came to the mountayne of God Horeb.
Psalms 127:3
Beholde, chyldren be the inheritage of God: and the fruite of the wombe is a rewarde.
Amos 7:15
And the Lorde toke me as I folowed the flocke, and the Lord sayde vnto me, Go, prophecie vnto my people Israel.
Luke 11:51
From the blood of Abel, vnto ye blood of Zacharie, whiche perished betwene the aulter & the temple: Ueryly I saye vnto you, it shalbe required of this nation.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

By swearing, and lying,.... Which some join together, and make but one sin of it, false swearing, so Jarchi and Kimchi; but that swearing itself signifies, as the Targum interprets it; for it not only takes in all cursing and imprecations, profane oaths, and taking the name of God in vain, and swearing by the creatures, but may chiefly design perjury; which, though one kind of "lying", may be distinguished from it here; the latter intending "lying" in common, which the devil is the father of, mankind are incident unto, and which is abominable to God, whether in civil or in religious things: "and killing, and stealing and committing adultery"; murders, thefts, and adulteries, were very common with them; sins against the sixth, eighth, and seventh commandments:

they break out; through all the restraints of the laws of God and man, like an unruly horse that breaks his bridle and runs away; or like wild beasts, that break down the fences and enclosures about them, and break out, and get away; or like a torrent of water, that breaks down its dams and banks, and overflows the meadows and plains; such a flood and deluge of sin abounded in the nation. Some render it, "they thieve" o; or act the part of thieves and robbers: and the Targum,

"they beget sons of their neighbours' wives;''

and so Abarbinel interprets it of breaking through the hedge of another man's wife; but these sins are observed before:

and blood toucheth blood; which some understand of sins in general, so called, because filthy and abominable; and of the addition and multiplication of them, there being as it were heaps of them, or rather a chain of them linked together. So the Targum,

"and they add sins to sins.''

Others interpret it of impure mixtures, of incestuous lusts, or marriages contrary to the ties of blood, and laws of consanguinity,

Leviticus 18:6, or rather it is to be understood of the great effusion of blood, and frequency of murders; so that there was scarce any interval between them, but a continued series of them. Some think respect is had to the frequent slaughter of their kings; Zachariah the son of Jeroboam was slain by Shallum, when he had reigned but six months; and Shallum was slain by Menahem when he had reigned but one month; and this Menahem was a murderer of many, smote many places, and ripped up the women with child; Pekahiah his son was killed by Pekah the son of Remaliah, and he again by Hoshea, 2 Kings 15:8.

o פרצו "latrocinantur, [vel] latrones agunt", Schmidt

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By swearing, and lying ... - Literally, “swearing or cursing” , “and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery!” The words in Hebrew are nouns of action. The Hebrew form is very vivid and solemn. It is far more forcible than if he had said, “They swear, lie, kill, and steal.” It expresses that these sins were continual, that nothing else (so to speak) was going on; that it was all one scene of such sins, one course of them, and of nothing besides; as we say more familiarly, “It was all, swearing, lying, killing, stealing, committing adultery.” It is as if the prophet, seeing with a sight above nature, a vision from God, saw, as in a picture, what was going on, all around, within and without, and summed up in this brief picture, all which he saw. This it was and nothing but this, which met his eyes, wherever he looked, whatever he heard, “swearing, lying, killing, stealing, committing adultery.” The prophet had before said, that the ten tribes were utterly lacking in all truth, all love, all knowledge of God. But where there are none of these, “there,” in all activity, will be the contrary vices. When the land or the soul is empty of the good, it will be full of the evil. “They break out,” i. e., burst through all bounds, set to restrain them, as a river bursts its banks and overspreads all things or sweeps all before it. “And blood toucheth blood,” literally, “bloods touch bloods” . The blood was poured so continuously and in such torrents, that it flowed on, until stream met stream and formed one wide inundation of blood.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 4:2. By swearing, and lying — Where there is no truth there will be lies and perjury; for false swearing is brought in to confirm lying statements. And when there is no mercy, killing, slaying, and murders, will be frequent. And where there is no knowledge of God, no conviction of his omnipresence and omniscience, private offenses, such as stealing, adulteries, c., will prevail. These, sooner or later, break out, become a flood, and carry all before them. Private stealing will assume the form of a public robbery, and adulteries become fashionable, especially among the higher orders and suits of crim. con. render them more public, scandalous, and corrupting. By the examination of witnesses, and reading of infamous letters in a court of justice, people are taught the wiles and stratagems to be used to accomplish these ends, and prevent detection; and also how to avoid those circumstances which have led to the detection of others. Every report of such matters is an experimental lecture on successful debauchery.

Blood toucheth blood. — Murders are not only frequent, but assassinations are mutual. Men go out to kill each other; as in our duels, the frenzy of cowards; and as there is no law regarded, and no justice in the land, the nearest akin slays the murderer. Even in our land, where duels are so frequent, if a man kill his antagonist, it is murder; and so generally brought in by an honest coroner and his jury. It is then brought into court; but who is hanged for it? The very murder is considered as an affair of honour, though it began in a dispute about a prostitute; and it is directed to be brought in manslaughter; and the murderer is slightly fined for having hurried his neighbour, perhaps once his friend, into the eternal world, with all his imperfections on his head! No wonder that a land mourns where these prevail; and that God should have a controversy with it. Such crimes as these are sufficient to bring God's curse upon any land. And how does God show his displeasure? See the following verse.


 
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