--- title: "Wesley" description: "Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare o" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/wesleys-explanatory-notes/hosea/5" --- Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. *For judgment* — God's controversy is with you all. *A snare* — You, O priests and princes, have ensnared the people by your examples. *Mizpah* — By idolatries acted at Mizpah, a part of Libanus. *On Tabor* — Here, as in Mizpah, idolatry catched men as birds are taken in a net. And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all. *The revolters* — All those that have cast off the law of God. *Profound* — Dig deep to hide their counsels, and to slay the innocent. *Though I* — Hosea. And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them. *Doth testify* — Is an evident witness against him. They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them. *To seek the Lord* — The Jewish doctors tell us, that under Hosea, Israel had liberty of bringing their sacrifices to Jerusalem. *Shall not find him* — God will not be found of them. *Hath withdrawn himself* — For their impenitency. They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions. *Have begotten* — They have trained up their children in the same idolatry. *A month* — Possibly it may refer to Shallum's short time of usurpation, which lasted but a month; the Assyrians shall make a speedy conquest over you. *With their portions* — With all their substance. Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin. *Blow ye* — Ye watchmen, sound the alarm, the enemy cometh. *After thee, O Benjamin* — After thy cries. After thee, O Beth-aven, let Benjamin also cry aloud: for they shall also fall for their sin. Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. *Ephraim* — The whole kingdom of the ten tribes. *Rebuke* — When Salmaneser shall besiege, sack and captivate all thy cities, rebuked for their sins. *Of Israel* — To the house of Israel openly. *Made known* — By my prophets. The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. *The bound* — The ancient bounds which limited every one, and prevented the encroaching of covetous men. *Like water* — Like an overflowing flood. Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment. *Ephraim* — The ten tribes are by seditions, civil wars, unjust sentences, and bloody conspiracies eaten up already. *After the commandment* — To forbear going to the temple, and to worship the calves at Dan and Bethel, as Jeroboam the son of Nebat commanded. Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. *A moth* — Moths leisurely eat up our clothes; so God was then, and had been, from Jeroboam's death, weakening the ten tribes. *As rottenness* — Secretly consuming them. When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. *His sickness* — Weakness, like a consumption, threatening death. *Then went* — Made application. *The Assyrian* — Particularly to Israel or Pul. For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him. *Will tear* — Divine vengeance by the Assyrians, shall be as a lion tearing his prey. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/wesleys-explanatory-notes/hosea/5#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/images/missing.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/images/missing.jpg","width":640,"height":370,"caption":"Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hosea 5"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/wesleys-explanatory-notes/hosea/5#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/wesleys-explanatory-notes/hosea/5","name":"Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hosea 5","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/wesleys-explanatory-notes/hosea/5#primaryimage"},"datePublished":null,"dateModified":null,"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare o","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/wesleys-explanatory-notes/hosea/5#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/wesleys-explanatory-notes/hosea/5"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/wesleys-explanatory-notes/hosea/5#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries","name":"Commentaries"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/wesleys-explanatory-notes","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/wesleys-explanatory-notes","name":"Wesley's Explanatory Notes"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/wesleys-explanatory-notes/hosea","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/wesleys-explanatory-notes/hosea","name":"Hosea"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/wesleys-explanatory-notes/hosea/5","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/wesleys-explanatory-notes/hosea/5","name":"5"}}]},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","width":512,"height":512},"logo":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo"},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/RBiblebeliever","https://www.facebook.com/RBibleBelievers"]}]} ```