Hosea 5:9

"“Blow the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!"

Key Reflection

In this passage, Hosea uses imagery of war to depict the impending judgment on Israel. The blowing of the cornet and trumpet symbolizes both the alarm signaling disaster and the call to defense, highlighting the suddenness and severity of the coming calamity for the people of Benjamin and Ephraim.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Ephraim shall be desolate -It shall not be lightly rebuked, nor even more grievously chastened; it shall not simply be wasted by famine, pestilence, and the sword; it shall be not simply desolate, but a desolation, one waste, in the day of rebuke, when God brings home to it its sin and punishment. Ephraim was not taken away for a time; it was never restored. I have made known that which shall surely be -o: “Doubt not that this which I say shall come upon thee, for it is a sure saying which I have made known;” literally, one well-grounded, as it was, in the mind, the justice, the holiness, the truth of God. All God’s threatenings or promises are grounded in past experience.

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