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Hos. 5:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

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Priest; Priesthood,

Snare,

Tabor

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1-14: The judgments of God are denounced against the priests, people, and princes, both of Israel and Judah, for their manifold sins.

15: An intimation is given of mercy on their repentance.

O priests.

Hos. 4:1,6‑7• ¹{i}Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel;{/i} for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
⁶My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: because thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I too will forget thy children.
⁷As they increased, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame. (Hos. 4:1,6‑7)

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Hos. 6:9• ⁹And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit deliberate crime. (Hos. 6:9)

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Mal. 1:6• ⁶A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? (Mal. 1:6)

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Mal. 2:1• ¹And now, O ye priests, {i}this commandment is for you.{/i} (Mal. 2:1)

O house.

Hos. 7:3‑5• ³They have made the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
⁴They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
⁵In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. (Hos. 7:3‑5)

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1 Kings 14:7‑16• ⁷Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith Jehovah God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,
⁸and rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;
⁹but hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
¹⁰therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, {i}and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.{/i}
¹¹{i}Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat, and him that dieth in the field shall the fowl of the heavens eat; for Jehovah hath spoken.{/i}
¹²{i}And thou, arise, go to thine own house;{/i} and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
¹³And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Jehovah God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
¹⁴{i}And Jehovah shall raise up for himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day; and what? …even now.{/i}
¹⁵{i}And Jehovah will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their Asherahs, provoking Jehovah to anger.{/i}
¹⁶And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin. (1 Kings 14:7‑16)

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1 Kings 21:18‑22• ¹⁸Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it.
¹⁹And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
²⁰And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of Jehovah.
²¹Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab every man child, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
²²and will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin. (1 Kings 21:18‑22)

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2 Chron. 21:12‑15• ¹²{i}And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet saying{/i}, Thus saith Jehovah God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
¹³but hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house; which were better than thyself:
¹⁴behold, with a great plague will Jehovah smite thy people and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
¹⁵and thou [shalt have], great sickness, {i}with a disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day{/i}. (2 Chron. 21:12‑15)

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Jer. 13:18• ¹⁸Say unto the king and unto the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. (Jer. 13:18)

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Jer. 22:1‑9• ¹{i}Thus saith Jehovah: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,{/i}
²{i}and say{/i}, Hear the word of Jehovah, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates:
³Thus saith Jehovah: Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
⁴For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
⁵But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith Jehovah, that this house shall become a desolation.
⁶For thus saith Jehovah unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
⁷And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
⁸And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every one to his neighbour, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this great city?
⁹Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them. (Jer. 22:1‑9)

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Amos 7:9• ⁹{i}And the high places of Isaac shall be desolated, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will arise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.{/i} (Amos 7:9)

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Mic. 3:1,9• ¹{i}And I said{/i}, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
⁹Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. (Mic. 3:1,9)

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Hos. 9:11‑17• ¹¹As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away as a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
¹²Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left; yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
¹³Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
¹⁴Give them, O Jehovah: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
¹⁵All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
¹⁶Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
¹⁷My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations. (Hos. 9:11‑17)

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Hos. 10:15• ¹⁵{i}So shall Bethel do unto you because of{/i} the wickedness of their wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off. (Hos. 10:15)

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Hos. 13:8• ⁸{i}I will meet them as a bear bereaved of her whelps , and will rend the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lioness: the beast of the field shall tear them.{/i} (Hos. 13:8)

ye have.

Hos. 9:8• ⁸Ephraim [was a] watchman with my God; the prophet is a fowler’s snare on all his ways—hatred in the house of his God. (Hos. 9:8)

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Mic. 7:2• ²The good man is perished {i}out of the land, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt every man his brother with a net.{/i} (Mic. 7:2)

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Hab. 1:15‑17• ¹⁵They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad:
¹⁶therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
¹⁷Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations. (Hab. 1:15‑17)

Tabor.

Judg. 4:6• ⁶And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-Naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not Jehovah God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun, (Judg. 4:6)

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Jer. 46:18• ¹⁸As I live, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come. (Jer. 46:18)

• Idolatrous evil, with every other in its train, had perverted all grades and men in Israel up to the priests and the king’s household—the one controlling religious matters, the other acting as the fountain of authority here below. (“Hosea 5” by W. Kelly)

• Alas I they were a snare on Mizpah and a net spread on Tabor. East or west of the Jordan made no difference; and the scenes of former mercies which ought never to have been forgotten were remembered but to give effect to actual enticements of idolatry. (“Hosea 5” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Hear this, ye priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king: for this judgment is forb you; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "against."

W. Kelly Translation

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Hear this, ye priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king: for this judgment is for you; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)