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Selected Verse: Hosea 6:10 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ho 6:10 |
King James |
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
horrible thing-- (Jer 5:30; Jer 18:13; Jer 23:14).
whoredom--idolatry. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
I have seen a horrible thing - Literally, "what would make one shudder." God had seen it; therefore man could not deny it. In the sight of God, and amid the sense of His presence, all excuses fail.
In the house of Israel - o: "For what more horrible, more amazing than that this happened, not in any ordinary nation but "in the house of Israel," in the people of God, in the portion of the Lord, as Moses said, "the Lord's portion is His people, Jacob is the lot of His inheritance?" In another nation, idolatry was error. In Israel, which had the knowledge of the one true God and had received the law, it was horror." "There is the whoredom of Ephraim," widespread, over the whole land, wherever the house of Ephraim was, through the whole kingdom of the ten tribes, "there" was its spiritual adultery and defilement. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The whoredom - Idolatry. Of Ephraim - Which was brought in by an Ephraimite, by Jeroboam, two hundred years ago, and is there still. Israel is defiled - It hath overspread all Israel. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| I have seen a horrible thing - That is, the idolatry that prevailed in Israel to such a degree that the whole land was defiled. |
14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
13 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;