Hosea 5:1 ““Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal…”

Hosea 5:1

“Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

“Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

American Standard Version

Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king; for unto you pertaineth the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

Geneva Bible 1599

O ye Priestes, heare this, and hearken ye, O house of Israel, and giue ye eare, O house of the King: for iudgement is towarde you, because you haue bene a snare on Mizpah, and a net spred vpon Tabor.

Darby Translation

Hear this, ye priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king: for this judgment is for you; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

Young's Literal Translation

'Hear this, O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, And, O house of the king, give ear, For the judgment [is] for you, For, a snare ye have been on Mizpah, And a net spread out on Tabor.

Bible in Basic English

Give ear to this, O priests; give attention, O Israel, and you, family of the king; for you are to be judged; you have been a deceit at Mizpah and a net stretched out on Tabor.

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Cross references

“O priests”

Hosea 6:9 Hosea 4:1 Malachi 2:1 Malachi 1:6 Hosea 4:6 Hosea 4:7

Hosea 6:9 · BSB

Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.

Hosea 4:1 · BSB

Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!

Malachi 2:1 · BSB

“And now this decree is for you, O priests:

Malachi 1:6 · BSB

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How…

Hosea 4:6 · BSB

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Hosea 4:7 · BSB

The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their Glory for a thing of disgrace.

“O house”

Micah 3:9 1 Kings 21:18–22 2 Chronicles 21:12–15 Amos 7:9 Micah 3:1 Hosea 7:3–5

Micah 3:9 · BSB

Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,

1 Kings 21:18–22 · BSB

“Get up and go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria. See, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession of it.

2 Chronicles 21:12–15 · BSB

Then a letter came to Jehoram from Elijah the prophet, which stated: “This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘You have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah,

Amos 7:9 · BSB

The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.”

Micah 3:1 · BSB

Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?

Hosea 7:3–5 · BSB

They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.

“for”

Hosea 9:11–17 Hosea 10:15 Hosea 13:8

Hosea 9:11–17 · BSB

Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.

Hosea 10:15 · BSB

Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.

Hosea 13:8 · BSB

Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast tearing them apart.

“ye have”

Hosea 9:8 Micah 7:2 Habakkuk 1:15–17

Hosea 9:8 · BSB

The prophet is Ephraim’s watchman, along with my God, yet the snare of the fowler lies on all his paths. Hostility is in the house of his God!

Micah 7:2 · BSB

The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.

Habakkuk 1:15–17 · BSB

The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.

“Tabor”

Judges 4:6 Jeremiah 46:18

Judges 4:6 · BSB

She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun.

Jeremiah 46:18 · BSB

As surely as I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, there will come one who is like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I will chastise them all.

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