Hosea 4:16 KJV — MannaFest

For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

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ASV

For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.

WEB

For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?

YLT

For as a refractory heifer hath Israel turned aside, Now doth Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.

DBT

For Israel is refractory as an untractable heifer; now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide [pasture].

About this book

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Hosea — A prophet commanded to marry an unfaithful wife — his marriage becomes the sermon. Fourteen chapters on covenant unfaithfulness and a love that will not let Israel go.

Author: Hosea son of Beeri (1:1)
Date: Ministry c. 755–715 BC — the decades leading up to the 722 BC fall of the northern kingdom

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Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
Hosea 10:11
And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
1 Samuel 15:11
It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the Lord all night.
Jeremiah 7:24
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Jeremiah 3:11
And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

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), Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer, as an untamed heifer (so some), or as a perverse or refractory one (so others), as a heifer that is turned loose runs madly about the pasture, or, if put under the yoke (which seems rather to be alluded to here), will draw back instead of going forward, will struggle to get her neck out of the yoke and her feet out of the furrow.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

): The Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place; they shall have a fat pasture, and a large one, in which they shall be fed to the full, and fed of the best, but it shall be only to prepare them for the slaughter, as a lamb is that is so fed.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

backsliding--Translate, "Israel is refractory, as a refractory heifer," namely, one that throws the yoke off her neck. Israel had represented God under the form of "calves" (1Ki 12:28); but it is she herself who is one. lamb in a large place--not in a good sense, as in Isa 30:23.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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HOS 4:16HOS 11:7 JER 8:5
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
HOS 4:16ZEC 7:11 NEH 9:29
HOS 4:16JER 8:5 JER 9:6
HOS 4:161SA 15:11 1SA 13:13
HOS 4:161SA 15:11 GEN 6:6
HOS 4:16JER 8:5 ZEC 7:11
HOS 4:16JER 8:5 JER 5:3
HOS 4:161SA 15:11 2SA 24:16

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