Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed. He is crushed in judgment, because he was content to walk after [man's] command.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
In Context
12Therefore I am to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Cross References
1 Kings 12:26And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.
2 Kings 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali. And he carried them captive to As
Micah 6:16For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels, that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing. And ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 5:9-15
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 758.) 8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin. 9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. 10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. 11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment. 12 Therefore will I be unto… Read the whole commentary →