--- title: "Hosea 5 - Study King James Bible with bullingers companion bible notes" description: "Read Hosea 5 with bullingers companion bible notes commentary. 1 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" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/hosea/5" --- [ Read](/kjv/hosea/5)[ Commentary](/study/hosea/5)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/hosea/5) Audio 1 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. 2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I *have been* a rebuker of them all.** 3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, *and* Israel is defiled. 4 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.** 5 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them. 6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find *him;* he hath withdrawn himself from them. 7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions. 8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, *and* the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud *at* Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin. 9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. 10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: *therefore* I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. 11 Ephraim *is* oppressed *and* broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment. 12 Therefore *will* I *be* unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.* 13 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.* 14 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*. 15 ΒΆ I will go *and* return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.* [Hosea 4](/study/hosea/4) [Hosea 6](/study/hosea/6) ## Commentary To verse 1 **Hear . . . O priests.** This is a call to the priests and others, as [Hosea 4:1-5](/kjv/hosea/4/1-5) was also a call to Israel. **judgment is toward you** = judgment is denounced upon you. **Mizpah.** There were five places with this name: (1) Now *Suf* ([Genesis 31:49](/kjv/genesis/31/49) . [Judges 10:17](/kjv/judges/10/17) ; [Judges 11:11](/kjv/judges/11/11) , [Judges 11:29](/kjv/judges/11/29) , [Judges 11:34](/kjv/judges/11/34) ; [Judges 20:1](/kjv/judges/20/1) , [Judges 20:3](/kjv/judges/20/3) ; [Judges 21:1](/kjv/judges/21/1) , [Judges 21:6](/kjv/judges/21/6) , [Judges 21:8](/kjv/judges/21/8) ). (2) In Moab ([1 Samuel 22:3](/kjv/1-samuel/22/3) ), not identified. (3) The land (or valley) of Moab, now *el Bukei'a* ([Joshua 11:3](/kjv/joshua/11/3) ). (4) In Judah, not identified ([Joshua 15:38](/kjv/joshua/15/38) ). (5) In Benjamin, not identified ([Joshua 18:26](/kjv/joshua/18/26) .[Jdg 22:1-3](/kjv/-jdg/22/1-3) ; [Judges 21:1](/kjv/judges/21/1) , [Judges 21:5](/kjv/judges/21/5) ,[Jdg 21:8](/kjv/-jdg/21/8) ; [1 Samuel 7:5-16](/kjv/1-samuel/7/5-16) ; [1 Samuel 10:17](/kjv/1-samuel/10/17) .[1Ki 15:22](/kjv/-1ki/15/22) ; [2 Kings 25:23](/kjv/2-kings/25/23) , [2 Kings 25:25](/kjv/2-kings/25/25) ; [2 Chronicles 16:6](/kjv/2-chronicles/16/6) . [Nehemiah 3:7](/kjv/nehemiah/3/7) , [Nehemiah 3:15](/kjv/nehemiah/3/15) , [Nehemiah 3:19](/kjv/nehemiah/3/19) . [Jeremiah 40:6-15](/kjv/jeremiah/40/6-15) ; [Jeremiah 41:1-16](/kjv/jeremiah/41/1-16) , and in this passage, [Hosea 5:1](/kjv/hosea/5/1) ). Mizpah was a symbol of *keeping apart,* not of *meeting again,* as erroneously used to-day. Tabor is on the west of Jordan and not connected with Ephraim; but Tabor means a mound; so that the idolatrous altar may have been called Mizpah, while Tabor was the "mound" of [Genesis 31:0](/kjv/genesis/31/0) , both belonging to the same district. 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