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Selected Verse: Hosea 5:4 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ho 5:4 |
King James |
They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| They--Turning from a direct address to Ephraim, he uses the third person plural to characterize the people in general. The Hebrew is against the Margin, their doings will not suffer them" the omission of "them" in the Hebrew after the verb being unusual. The sense is, they are incurable, for they will not permit (as the Hebrew literally means) their doings to be framed so as to turn unto God. Implying that they resist the Spirit of God, not suffering Him to renew them; and give themselves up to "the spirit of whoredoms" (in antithesis to "the Spirit of God" implied in "suffer" or "permit") (Hos 4:12; Isa 63:10; Eze 16:43; Act 7:51). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
They will not frame their doings ... - They were possessed by an evil spirit, impelling and driving them to sin; "the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them," i. e., in their very inward self, their center, so to speak; in their souls, where reside the will, the reason, the judgment; and so long as they did not, by the strength of God, dislodge him, they would and could not frame their acts, so as to repent and turn to God. For a mightier impulse mastered them and drove them into sin, as the evil spirit drove the swine into the deep.
The rendering of the margin, although less agreeable to the Hebrew, also gives a striking sense. "Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God." Not so much that their habits of sin had got an absolute mastery over them, so as to render repentance impossible; but rather, that it was impossible that they should turn inwardly, while they did not turn outwardly. Their evil doings, so long as they persevered in doing them, took away all heart, whereby to turn to God with a solid conversion.
And yet He was "their God;" this made their sin the more grievous. He, whom they would not turn to, still owned them, was still ready to receive them as "their God." For the prophet continues, "and they have not known the Lord." Him, "their God," they knew not. For the spirit which possessed them hindered them from thought, from memory, from conception of spiritual things. They did not turn to God,
(1) because the evil spirit held them, and so long as they allowed his hold, they were filled with carnal thoughts which kept them back from God.
(2) they did not know God; so that, not knowing how good and how great a good He is in Himself, and how good to us, they had not even the desire to turn to Him, for love of Himself, yea even for love of themselves. They saw not, that they lost a loving God. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
Nahum; Book of, Introduction,
(See Scofield) - (Nah 1:1).
Nations; see Gentile
Nations; Gentile, judgment of,
(See Scofield) - (Mat 25:32).
Natural; man, Cain a type of,
(See Scofield) - (Gen 4:1).
Natural; the, before spiritual,
(See Scofield) - (Gen 36:31).
Natures; the two, strife of,
(See Scofield) - (Rom 7:15).
Nazariteship; typical meaning,
(See Scofield) - (Num 6:2).
Nebuchadnezzar; dream of,
(See Scofield) - (Dan 2:31).
Nebuchadnezzar; knowledge of God,
(See Scofield) - (Dan 4:34).
Neginoth; meaning of word,
(See Scofield) - (Psa 4:1).
Nehemiah; Book of, Introduction,
(See Scofield) - (Neh 1:1).
Nehiloth; meaning of word,
(See Scofield) - (Psa 5:1).
Net; the parable of,
(See Scofield) - (Mat 13:47).
New; man, the, defined,
(See Scofield) - (Eph 4:24).
Nicolaitines; meaning of,
(See Scofield) - (Rev 2:6).
Nineveh; symbolic meaning,
(See Scofield) - (Isa 13:1).
(See Scofield) - (Nah 1:1).
Numbers; Book of, Introduction,
(See Scofield) - (Num 1:1).
Numerals; Hebrew, explained,
(See Scofield) - (Co1 10:8). |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| They will not frame their doings - They never purpose to turn to God, they have fully imbibed the spirit of idolatry. |
51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
47 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
1 To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,
1 To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
34 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
31 And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.