Hosea 5:11
The people of Ephraim are crushed, smashed to pieces in judgment because they were determined to follow human commands.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
In Context
12I am like a maggot to Ephraim, and like something rotten to the people of Judah.
Cross References
1 Kings 12:26Jeroboam said to himself, “The kingdom could easily return to the house of David.
2 Kings 15:29During the reign of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, invaded and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people to Assyria as prisoners.
Micah 6:16You have kept the laws of Omri, and adopted all the practices of the house of Ahab, you have followed their ways. So I will make your country desolate and the people who live there an object of scorn; you will bear the shame 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 →