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Hosea 5:2

They have gone deep in the evil ways of Shittim, but I am the judge of all.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Idolatry;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Tabor;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hosea;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hosea;   Rebuke;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Rebels are deeply involved in slaughter;I will be a punishment for all of them.
Hebrew Names Version
The rebels are deep in slaughter; But I discipline all of them.
King James Version
And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
English Standard Version
And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them.
New American Standard Bible
And the rebels have gone deep in depravity, But I will discipline all of them.
New Century Version
You have done many evil things, so I will punish you all.
Amplified Bible
The revolters have gone deep into depravity, But I [the LORD God] will chastise them all.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Yet they were profounde, to decline to slaughter, though I haue bene a rebuker of them all.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The revolters have gone deep in depravity, But I will chastise all of them.
Legacy Standard Bible
And the revolters have dug deep into slaughtering,But I will chastise all of them.
Berean Standard Bible
The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I will chastise all of them.
Contemporary English Version
At the place of worship you were a treacherous pit, and I will punish you.
Complete Jewish Bible
The rebels have deepened their slaughter, and I am rejected by all of them.
Darby Translation
And they have plunged themselves in the corruption of apostasy, but I will be a chastiser of them all.
Easy-to-Read Version
You have done many evil things, so I will punish you all.
George Lamsa Translation
And the hunters who hunt have laid hidden snares, but I will chastise them all.
Good News Translation
a deep pit at Acacia City, and I will punish all of you.
Lexham English Bible
they dug a deep pit in Shittim, but I am a punishment for all of them.
Literal Translation
And revolters have gone deep in slaughtering, and I chasten all of them.
American Standard Version
And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they that fall away are gone deep in making slaughter; and I am rejected of them all.
King James Version (1611)
And the reuolters are profound to make slaughter, though I haue bene a rebuker of them all.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They kyll sacrifices by heapes, and turne farre from the Lord, and I haue ben a rebuker of them all.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
which they that hunt the prey have fixed: but I will correct you.
English Revised Version
And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.
World English Bible
The rebels are deep in slaughter; But I discipline all of them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And ye bowiden doun sacrifices in to depthe; and Y am the lernere of alle hem.
Update Bible Version
And the revolters have gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I [have been] a rebuker of them all.
New English Translation
Those who revolt are knee-deep in slaughter, but I will discipline them all.
New King James Version
The revolters are deeply involved in slaughter, Though I rebuke them all.
New Living Translation
You have dug a deep pit to trap them at Acacia Grove. But I will settle with you for what you have done.
New Life Bible
Those who will not obey have gone deep into sin, but I will punish all of them.
New Revised Standard
and a pit dug deep in Shittim; but I will punish all of them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, a slaughter, have apostates deeply designed, - though, I, was a rebuker to them all.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And you have turned aside victims into the depth and I am the teacher of them all.
Revised Standard Version
And they have made deep the pit of Shittim; but I will chastise all of them.
Young's Literal Translation
And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, And I [am] a fetter to them all.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They kyll sacrifices by heapes, to begyle the people therwith: therfore wil I punysh them all.

Contextual Overview

1 Give ear to this, O priests; give attention, O Israel, and you, family of the king; for you are to be judged; you have been a deceit at Mizpah and a net stretched out on Tabor. 2 They have gone deep in the evil ways of Shittim, but I am the judge of all. 3 I have knowledge of Ephraim, and Israel is not secret from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have been false to me, Israel has become unclean. 4 Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord. 5 And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; and Ephraim will have a fall through his sins, and the fall of Judah will be the same as theirs. 6 They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view. 7 They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the revolters: Hosea 6:9, Hosea 9:15, Jeremiah 6:28

profound: Psalms 64:3-6, Psalms 140:1-5, Isaiah 29:15, Jeremiah 11:18, Jeremiah 11:19, Jeremiah 18:18, Luke 22:2-5, Acts 23:12-15

though: or, and, etc

a rebuker: Heb. a correction, Hosea 6:5, Isaiah 1:5, Jeremiah 5:3, Jeremiah 25:3-7, Amos 4:6-12, Zephaniah 3:1, Zephaniah 3:2, Revelation 3:19

Reciprocal: Hosea 4:2 - toucheth

Cross-References

Genesis 1:27
And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.
Genesis 2:15
And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.
Genesis 2:23
And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.
Malachi 2:15
••• Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English. So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.
Matthew 19:4
And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,
Mark 10:6
But from the first, male and female made he them.
Acts 17:26
And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the revolters are profound to make slaughter,.... The revolters are the king, priests, and people, who had revolted from the true worship and ways of God unto idolatry. These formed deep laid schemes, and took crafty methods, like hawkers; who lay themselves flat upon the ground to manage their snares and nets, and observe the creatures that fall into them, and take them, and whom they artfully decoy, to which the allusion is; and that either to slay those who would not comply with their false worship; or rather to multiply the sacrifices of slain beasts, and offer them with a great show of devotion and religion, and thereby beguile, entice, and ensnare simple and unwary souls; so the Targum,

"they sacrifice to idols abundantly;''

and which, in the sight of God, was mere slaughter and butchery:

though I [have been] a rebuker of them all; king, priests, and prophets; those idolaters, revolters, or worshippers of Baal, as Aben Ezra calls them: this is to be interpreted either of the prophet, who had freely, faithfully, and openly reproved all orders of men for their departure from God and his worship, and for their idolatrous practices; or of the Lord himself, which comes to the same sense, who had rebuked them by his prophets, and corrected them by his judgments, but to no purpose: and therefore they could not plead ignorance, or excuse themselves upon that account.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the revolters are profound to make slaughter - Literally, “They made the slaughter deep,” as Isaiah says, “they deeply corupted themselves” Isaiah 31:6; and our old writers say “He smote deep.” They willed also doubtless to “make it deep,” hide it so deep, that God should never know it, as the Psalmist says of the ungodly, “that the inward self and heart of the worker’s of iniquity is deep,” whereon it follows, that God should “suddenly wound them,” as here the prophet subjoins that God rebuked them. Actual and profuse murder has been already Hosea 4:2 mentioned as one of the common sins of Israel, and it is afterward Hosea 6:9 also charged upon the priests.

Though I have been a rebuker - Literally, “a rebuke,” as the Psalmist says, “I am prayer” Psalms 109:4, i. e., “I am all prayer.” The Psalmist’s whole being was turned into prayer. So here, all the attributes of God, His mercies, love, justice, were concentrated into one, and that one, rebuke. Rebuke was the one form, in which they were all seen. It is an aggravation of crime to do it in the place of judgment or in the presence of the judge. Israel was immersed in his sin and heeded not, although God rebuked him continually by His voice in the law, forbidding all idolatry, and was now all the while, both in word and deed, rebuking him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 5:2. The revolters are profound to make slaughter — Here may be a reference to the practice of hunters, making deep pits in the ground, and lightly covering them over, that the beasts, not discovering them, might fall in, and become a prey.

Though I have been a Rebuker — "I will bring chastisement on them all." As they have made victims of others to their idolatry, I will make victims of them to my justice. Some have thought that as many as wished to depart from the idolatrous worship set up by Jeroboam, were slaughtered; and thus Jeroboam the son of Nebat MADE Israel to sin.


 
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