I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel,.... Idolatry, the calves set up at Dan and Bethel, which God saw with abhorrence and detestation; or the prophet saw it, and it made his hair stand on end as it were, as the word signifies, that such wickedness should be committed by a professing people:there [is] the whoredom of Ephraim; in the house of Israel is the whoredom of Jeroboam, who was of the tribe of Ephraim, and caused Israel to sin, to go a whoring after idols; or the whoredom of the tribe of Ephraim, which belonged to the house of Israel, and even of all the ten tribes; both corporeal and spiritual whoredom, or idolatry, are here meant:Israel is defiled; with whoredom of both kinds; it had spread itself all over the ten tribes; they were all infected with it, and polluted by it; see Ho 5:3.
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Hosea 6:10
Hosea 6:10
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Hosea 6 — OverviewHosea 6 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe closing words of the foregoing chapter gave us some hopes that God
and his Israel, notwithstanding their sins and his wrath, might yet be
happily brought together again, that they would seek him and he would…Hosea 6 — OverviewHosea 6 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeHosea 6:1, Exhortations to repent and hope in God; Hosea 6:4, A lamentation over those who had sinned after conviction; Hosea 6:5, Reproofs of obstinate sinners, and threatenings against them.Hosea 6 — OverviewHosea 6 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter gives an account of some who were truly penitent, and stirred up one another to return to the Lord, encouraged by his power, grace, and goodness, Ho 6:1; and of others, who had only a form of religion, were…Hosea 6:4-11Hosea 6:4-11 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleTwo things, two evil things, both Judah and Ephraim are here charged
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I. That they were not firm to their own convictions, but were unsteady,
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