Hosea Chapter 5 verse 7 Holy Bible
They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they have borne strange children: now shall the new moon devour them with their fields.
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They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.
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They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they havebegotten strange children: now shall the new moon devour them, with their allotted possessions.
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They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
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They are unfaithful to Yahweh; For they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
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Against Jehovah they dealt treacherously, For strange sons they have begotten, Now consume them doth a month `with' their portions.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - They have dealt treacherously against the Lord: for they have begotten strange children. This may refer to inter. marriages with idolaters, when the offspring of such forbidden unions departed still further from the worship of Jehovah; or the children of godless Jewish parents reflected yet more the wicked works and ways of such parents. In consequence of the infidelity of the wife, the children were not the offspring of lawful wedlock or conjugal union; in other words, they were children of whoredom - an adulterous generation. Lord's infidelity to the holy covenant had as its result a graceless, godless race - children strange and supposititions in the spiritual sense. Now shall a month devour them with their portions. If (1) "month" be the right rendering, it is a note of time like "the day of the Lord;" and the sense is that a short time shall see the end of them - not only of their persons, but their properties, that is, their hereditary portions in Palestine. But (2) if "new moon" be the correct translation, the new moon, or sacrificial feasts celebrated at that season, will only rut,, not relieve, them. Their sinful sacrifices and vain oblations, on which they now placed their reliance, will procure, not their salvation, but perdition.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) Strange children refers to offspring that followed in the ways of their mother. (Comp. Hosea 1) Some reference is involved to the consequences of intermarriage with heathen. The "month" may be a personification of the period of a month (Henderson), during which takes place the now closely impending (perhaps already commenced) invasion by Tiglathpileser (2Kings 15:29; 2 Chron. 19:21). This invasion was due in part to Ahaz having sought the aid of Assyria against Pekah and Rezin.
