Oseas 8:5

Filipino Cebuano Bible

5 Iyang gisalibay ang imong nating vaca, Oh Samaria; ang akong kasilag misilaub batok kanila: hangtud anus-a ba nga sila makadangat sa pagkaputli sa kinabuhi ?

Bible Verse Review
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calf: Hosea 8:6, Hosea 10:5, Isaiah 45:20, Acts 7:41

mine: Deuteronomy 32:22, 2 Kings 17:16-18, 2 Kings 17:21-23

how: Proverbs 1:22, Jeremiah 4:14, Jeremiah 13:27

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:4 - calf Numbers 14:11 - How long will this 2 Kings 10:29 - the golden calves 2 Kings 17:7 - sinned 2 Kings 17:29 - made gods 2 Chronicles 11:15 - for the calves 2 Chronicles 13:8 - with you golden 2 Chronicles 32:19 - the work Jeremiah 23:26 - How Jeremiah 31:22 - How Jeremiah 48:13 - as the Hosea 7:1 - wickedness Hosea 10:2 - break down Amos 8:14 - sin Micah 1:5 - is it

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast [thee] off,.... Or, is the cause of thy being cast off by the Lord, and of being cast out of thine own land, and carried captive into another; the past tense is used for the future, as is common in prophetic writings, to denote the certainty of the thing: or "thy calf hath left thee" a; in the lurch; it cannot help thee; it is gone off, and forsaken thee; it has "removed" itself from thee, according to the sense of the word in Lamentations 3:17; as Kimchi and Ben Melech observe; or is removed far from thee, being carried captive itself into Assyria; for, when the king of Assyria took Samaria, he seized on the golden calf for the sake of the gold, and took it away; see Hosea 10:5; or "he hath removed thy calf" b; that is, the enemy, taking it away when he took the city; or God has rejected it with the utmost contempt and abhorrence: the calf is here, and in the following verse, called the calf of Samaria, because this was the metropolis of the ten tribes, in which the calf was worshipped, and because it was worshipped by the Samaritans; and it may be, when Samaria became the chief city, the calf at Bethel might be removed thither, or another set up in that city:

mine anger is kindled against them: the calves at Dan and Bethel, the singular before being put for the plural; or against the if of Samaria, and Samaria itself; or the inhabitants of it, because of the worship of the calf, which was highly provoking to God, it being a robbing him of his glory, and giving it to graven images:

how long [will it be] ere they attain to innocency? or "purity" c; of worship, life, and conversation: the words may be rendered thus, "how long?" d for there is a large stop there; and this may be a question of the prophet's, asking how long the wrath of God would burn against the people, what; would be the duration of it, and when it would end? to which an answer is returned, as the words may be translated, "they cannot bear purity" e; of doctrine, of worship of heart, and life; when they can, mine anger will cease burning: or, as the Targum,

"as long as they cannot purify themselves,''

or be purified; so long as they continue in their sins, in their superstition and idolatry, and other impieties, and are not purged from them.

a זנח עגלך "dereliquit vitulus te", Lutherus; "descruit te vitulus tuus", Schmidt. b "Elongavit sc. hostis, vitalum tuum", Schindler. c נקיון "munditiem", Calvin, Rivet, Schmidt. d עד מתי "quousque?" Zanchius, Pareus, Cocceius. e לא יוכלו נקיון "non possunt innocentiam praestare", Cocceius; "quamdiu non poterunt animum adjungere ad innocentam", Zanchius; "usquedum non poterunt ferre innocentiam", Pareus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off - Israel had cast off God, his good. In turn, the prophet says, the “calf,” which he had chosen to be his god instead of the Lord his God, “has cast” him “off.” He repeats the word, by which he had described Israel’s sin, ”Israel hath cast off and abhorred good” in order to show the connection of his sin and its punishment. “Thy calf,” whom thou madest for thyself, whom thou worshipest, whom thou lovest, of whom thou saidst, “Behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt” 1 Kings 12:28-31; “thy” calf, in whom thou didst trust instead of thy God, it has requited thee the dishonor thou didst put on thy God; it hath “cast thee off” as a thing “abhorred.” So it is with all people’s idols, which they make to themselves, instead of God. First or last, they all fail a man, and leave him poor indeed. Beauty fades; wealth fails; honor is transferred to another; nothing abides, save God. Whence our own great poet of nature makes a fallen favorite say, “had I but serv’d my God with half the zeal I served my king, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine-enemies.”

Mine anger is kindled against them - Our passions are but some distorted likeness of what exists in God without passion; our anger, of His displeasure against sin. And so God speaks to us after the manner of people, and pictures His divine displeasure under the likeness of our human passions of anger and fury, in order to bring home to us, what we wish to hide from ourselves, the severe and awful side of His Being, His Infinite Holiness, and the truth, that He will indeed avenge. He tells us, that He will surely punish; as people, who are extremely incensed, execute their displeasure if they can.

How long will it be ere they attain to innocency? - Literally, “how long will they not be able innocency?” So again it is said, “him that hath an high look and a proud heart, I cannot” Psalms 101:5; we supply, “suffer.” “New moons and sabbaths I cannot” Isaiah 1:13; our version adds, “away with,” i. e., endure. So here probably. As they had with abhorrence cast off God their good, so God says, “they cannot endure innocency;” but He speaks as wondering and aggrieved at their hardness of heart and their obdurate holding out against the goodness, which He desired for them. “How long will they not be able to endure innocency?” “What madness this, that when I give them place for repentence, they will not endure to return to health of soul!”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 8:5. Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off — Bishop Newcome translates: "Remove far from thee thy calf, O Samaria!" Abandon thy idolatry; for my anger is kindled against thee.

How long will it be ere they attain to innocency? — How long will ye continue your guilty practices? When shall it be said that ye are from these vices? The calf or ox, which was the object of the idolatrous worship of the Israelites, was a supreme deity in Egypt; and it was there they learned this idolatry. A white ox was worshipped under the name of Apis, at Memphis; and another ox under the name of Mnevis, was worshipped at On, or Heliopolis. To Osiris the males of this genus were consecrated, and the females to Isis. It is a most ancient superstition, and still prevails in the East. The cow is a most sacred animal among the Hindoos.