Hosea 5:1

“Hear this, priests! 1 Pay attention, house of Israel! 1 Listen, house of the king! 1 For judgment is coming against you all. 1 You have been a snare at Mizpah 1 and a net spread over Tabor. 1

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2The rebels stand deep in slaughter, 1 but I will punish all of them. + 5:2 Some modern versions have The rebels have dug a deep pit , The rebels have dug deep at Shittim , or, continuing on from the previous verse, a pit dug deep at Shittim . 1

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Cross References

Judges 4:12When they told Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,

1 Samuel 7:6They gathered at Mizpah, drew water and poured it out before Yahweh. They fasted that day and said, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” It was there that Samuel decided disputes for the people of Israel and led the people.

1 Kings 14:7Go, tell Jeroboam that Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'I raised you from among the people to make you the leader over my people Israel.

2 Chronicles 21:12A letter from the prophet Elijah came to Jehoram. It said, “This is what Yahweh, the God of David, your ancestor, says: Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat, your father, nor in the ways of Asa, king of Judah,

Jeremiah 13:18“Say to the king and to the queen mother, 'Come down from your thrones, 1 for your splendid crowns have fallen from your heads.' 1

Jeremiah 46:18As I live—declares the King, whose name is Yahweh of hosts— 1 someone will come like Mount Tabor and Mount Carmel by the sea. 1

Matthew Henry on Hosea 5:1

The scope of this chapter is the same with that of the foregoing chapter, to discover the sin both of Israel and Judah, and to denounce the judgments of God against them. I. They are called to hearken to the charge, ver. 1 , 8 . II. They are accused of many sins, which are here aggravated. 1. Persecution, ver. 7 . 5. The tyranny of the princes, and the tameness of the people in submitting to it, ver. 10, 11 . III. They are threatened with God's displeasure for their sins; he knows all their wickedness ( ver. 3 )… Read the whole commentary →

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