Hosea 5:2
The 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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In The King James Version
And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
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Cross References
Psalms 64:3They have sharpened their tongues like swords; 1 they have aimed their arrows, bitter words, 1
Isaiah 1:5Why are you still being beaten? Why do you rebel more and more? 1 The whole head is sick, the whole heart is weak. 1
Jeremiah 5:3Yahweh, do your eyes not look for faithfulness? You struck the people, but they do not feel pain. 1 You have completely defeated them, but they still refuse to receive discipline. They make their faces harder than rock, for they refuse to repent. 1
Jeremiah 11:18Yahweh made me know these things, so I know them. You, Yahweh, made me see their deeds.
Jeremiah 25:3He said, “For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah until this day, Yahweh's words have been coming to me and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
Hosea 6:5So I have cut them to pieces by the prophets, 1 I have killed them with the words of my mouth. 1 Your decrees are like the light that shines out. 1
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 →