Hosea 5:8

Blow a horn in Gibeah, a trumpet in Ramah, || Shout, O Beth-Aven, after you, O Benjamin.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin.

In Context

7Against YHWH they dealt treacherously, || For they have begotten strange sons, || Now a month consumes them [with] their portions.

9Ephraim is for a desolation in a day of reproof, || I have made known a sure thing among the tribes of Israel.

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Cross References

Judges 5:14From Ephraim [are] those whose root [is] in Amalek, || After you, Benjamin, among your peoples, || From Machir lawgivers came down, || And from Zebulun those drawing with the reed of a writer.

Judges 19:13And he says to his young man, “Come, and we draw near to one of the places, and have lodged in Gibeah, or in Ramah.”

1 Samuel 7:17and his returning [is] to Ramath, for his house [is] there, and he has judged Israel there, and he builds an altar to YHWH there.

1 Samuel 15:34And Samuel goes to Ramath, and Saul has gone to his house—to Gibeah of Saul.

1 Kings 12:29And he sets the one in Beth-El, and the other he has put in Dan,

Jeremiah 4:5Declare in Judah, and sound in Jerusalem, and say: “Blow a horn in the land, || Call, Fill up together, || And say, Assemble yourselves and let us go into the fortified cities.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 5:2-8

Charge against Israel and Judah; Judgments Threatened. ( b. c. 758.) 1 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. 2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all. 3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled. 4 They will not frame their doings to turn… Read the whole commentary →

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