Hosea 4:2 KJV — MannaFest

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

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ASV

There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

WEB

Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

YLT

Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery--have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.

DBT

Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, — they break out; and blood toucheth blood.

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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Jeremiah 23:10
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
Ephesians 4:28
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Hosea 6:9
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
Hosea 10:4
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
Psalms 59:12
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

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By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554reformed

We hence see what the Prophet treats of now; and this ought to be observed, for hypocrites wish ever to be flattered; and when the mercy of God is offered to them, they seek to be freed from every fear. It is therefore a bitter thing to them, when threatening are mingled, when God sharply chides them.

John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554reformed

It was about this time that there was so much blood shed in grasping at the crown; Shallum slew Zechariah, and Menahem slew Shallum, Pekah slew Pekahiah, and Hoshea slew Pekah; and the like bloody work, it is likely, there was among other contenders, so that the land was polluted with blood ( Ps. cvi. 38 ); it was filled with blood from one end to the other, 2 Kings xxi.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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