Hosea 5:2
Yet they were profounde, to decline to slaughter, though I haue bene a rebuker of them all.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 64:3Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes.
Isaiah 1:5Wherefore shoulde ye be smitten any more? for ye fall away more and more: the whole head is sicke, and the whole heart is heauie.
Jeremiah 5:3O Lord, are not thine eyes vpon the trueth? thou hast striken them, but they haue not sorowed: thou hast consumed them, but they haue refused to receiue correction: they haue made their faces harder then a stone, and haue refused to returne.
Jeremiah 11:18And the Lord hath taught me, and I knowe it, euen then thou shewedst mee their practises.
Jeremiah 25:3From the thirteenth yeere of Iosiah the sonne of Amon King of Iudah, euen vnto this day (that is the three and twentieth yeere) the word of the Lord hath come vnto mee, and I haue spoken vnto you rising earely and speaking, but ye woulde not heare.
Hosea 6:5Therefore haue I cut downe by the Prophets: I haue slaine them by the wordes of my mouth, and thy iudgements were as the light that goeth forth.
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 →