Hosea 5:10

"Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be."

Key Reflection

In Hosea 5:10, the prophet speaks of Ephraim's imminent judgment and desolation as a consequence of its sins, emphasizing that this fate is certain and foretold by God. This prophecy underscores the severity of divine rebuke and the unalterable nature of divine judgment among the tribes of Israel.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound -All avaricious encroachment on the paternal inheritance of others, was strictly forbidden by God in the law, under the penalty of His curse. “Cursed is he that removeth his neighbor’s landmark”Deuteronomy 27:17. “The princes of Judah,” i. e., those who were the king’s counselors and chief in the civil polity, had committed sin, like to this. Since the prophet had just pronounced the desolation of Israel, perhaps that sin was, that instead of taking warning from the threatened destruction, and turning to God, they thought only how the removal of Ephraim would benefit them, by the enlargement of their borders.

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