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Ezechielis 5:2
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Prćcepit ergo jam temulentus ut afferrentur vasa aurea et argentea, quć asportaverat Nabuchodonosor pater ejus de templo, quod fuit in Ierusalem, ut biberent in eis rex, et optimates ejus, uxoresque ejus, et concubinć.
Et victimas declinastis in profundum;
et ego eruditor omnium eorum.
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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
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.