Hosea 10:14
in Hosea 10the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
KJV
Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth–arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
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This verse in Hosea 10
Commentary
8 notes on this verse"Because you trusted in your ways: tumult shall arise among your people because of the multitude of your strong ones, and all your fortifications shall be laid waste. Just as Salman was devastated in his own house, he who was judging Baal on the day of the battle, when a mother was dashed upon her children, so has Bethel done to you because of the malice of your wickedness."
This site's exposition
as Shalman spoiled Beth–arbel
on Hosea 10:14-15
As Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle, the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children names an atrocity contemporary readers would have recognized at once though its exact identity is debated by the bench, whether Shalmaneser's own campaign or an otherwise unrecorded raid, the horror serving as the coming pattern for what Israel's own cities will suffer. So shall Beth-el do unto you closes the chapter where it opened, the house of vanity delivering the very ruin it promised to prevent, and in a morning the king of Israel utterly cut off names the swiftness of the fall the whole chapter has been tracing.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us. What the sins are which are here laid to Israel's charge, the national sins which bring down national judgment.
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Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people,....
It is strange that any of the human race could be so inhuman; but see what comes of sin. Homo homini lupus--Man is a wolf to man, and then, Homo homini agnus--Man is a lamb to man. Even royal blood shall be mingled with common gore: In a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off,
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Shall a tumult arise - The enemy shall soon fall upon thy people, and take all thy fortified places. As Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel - Some think that this refers to Jerubbaal, or Gideon’s victory over Zalmunna, general of the Midianites; see Jdg 7:8. Others think that an allusion is made here to the destruction of Arbela, a city of Armenia, by Shalmaneser, here called Shalman; and this while he was only general of the Assyrian forces, and not yet king. I think the history to which this refers is unknown. It seems that it was distinguished by some remarkable ferocities.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel--that is, Shalmaneser, a compound name, in which the part common to it and the names of three other Assyrian kings, is omitted; Tiglath-pileser, Esar-haddon, Shar-ezer. So Jeconiah is abbreviated to Coniah.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people - Literally, “peoples.” Such was the immediate fruit of departing from God and trusting in human beings and idols. They trusted in their own might, and the multitude of their people. That might should, through intestine division and anarchy, become their destruction. As in the dislocated state of the Roman empire under the first emperors, so in lsrael, the successive usurpers arose out of their armies, armies , “the multitude of their mighty ones,” in whom they trusted. The “confused noise” of “war” should first “arise in” the midst of their own “peoples.” They are spoken of not as one, but as many; “peoples,” not, as God willed them to be, one people, for they had no principle of oneness or stability, who had no legitimate succession, either of kings or of priests; who had “made kings, but not through” God. Each successor had the same right as his predecessor, the right of might, and furnished an example and precedent and sanction to the murderer of himself or of his son. All thy fortresses shall be spoiled - Literally, “the whole of thy fortresses shall be wasted.” He speaks of the whole as one. Their fenced cities, which cut off all approach, should be one waste. They had forsaken God, their “fortress and deliverer,” and so He gave up their fortresses to the enemy, so that all and each of them were laid waste. The confusion, begun among themselves, prepared for destruction by the enemy. Of this he gives one awful type. As Shalman spoiled - (or wasted) Beth-Arbel in the day of battle “Shalman” is, no doubt, “Shalmaneser king of Assyria,” who came up against Hoshea, early in his reign, “and he became a servant to him and brought him a present 2Ki 17:3. Shalman” being the characteristic part of the name , the prophet probably omitted the rest, on the ground of the rhythm. […]
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
And a tumult shall rise in your peoples i.e., a voice shouting, “Flee! Flee!”
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you have eaten fruit of lies You have received the retribution for your deeds.
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Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
16 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְקָ֣אם | vekam | and it will arise | H6965 → | |
| שָׁאוֹן֮ | shaon | an uproar | H7588 → | |
| בְּעַמֶּךָ֒ | beamekha | among people your | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| וְכָל־ | vekhol | and all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| מִבְצָרֶ֣יךָ | mivtzareikha | fortresses your | H4013 → | |
| יוּשַּׁ֔ד | yushad | it will be devastated | H7703 → | |
| כְּשֹׁ֧ד | keshod | like [the] devastation of | H7701 → | 25 times |
| שַֽׁלְמַ֛ן | shalman | Shalman | H8020 → | |
| בֵּ֥ית | beit | Beth | H1009 → | |
| אַֽרְבֵ֖אל | ʾarvel | Arbel | H1009 → | |
| בְּי֣וֹם | beyom | on [the] day of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| מִלְחָמָ֑ה | milchamah | battle | H4421 → | 320 times |
| אֵ֥ם | ʾem | mother | H517 → | 220 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | with | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| בָּנִ֖ים | banim | children | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| רֻטָּֽשָׁה׃ | rutashah | she was dashed in pieces | H7376 → |
וְקָ֣אםand it will arise
vekamH6965 →
שָׁאוֹן֮an uproar
shaonH7588 →
בְּעַמֶּךָ֒among people your
beamekhaH5971 →1873 times
וְכָל־and all
vekholH3605 →5413 times
מִבְצָרֶ֣יךָfortresses your
mivtzareikhaH4013 →
יוּשַּׁ֔דit will be devastated
yushadH7703 →
כְּשֹׁ֧דlike [the] devastation of
keshodH7701 →25 times
שַֽׁלְמַ֛ןShalman
shalmanH8020 →
בֵּ֥יתBeth
beitH1009 →
אַֽרְבֵ֖אלArbel
ʾarvelH1009 →
בְּי֣וֹםon [the] day of
beyomH3117 →2304 times
מִלְחָמָ֑הbattle
milchamahH4421 →320 times
אֵ֥םmother
ʾemH517 →220 times
עַל־with
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
בָּנִ֖יםchildren
banimH1121 →4930 times
רֻטָּֽשָׁה׃she was dashed in pieces
rutashahH7376 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Hosea 13:16Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
it leads to
- Isaiah 13:16
Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 2 Kings 15:16
At that time Menahem, starting from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in its vicinity, because they would not open their gates. So he attacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women.
- 2 Kings 8:12
“Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword,…
- Psalms 137:8–9
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
- Amos 1:13
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their…
- Isaiah 13:16
Through
Nahum 3:10Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in…
it leads to
- Isaiah 20:4
so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.
- Hosea 13:16
Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
- Joel 3:3
They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
- Isaiah 20:4
Where this verse is studied
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About Hosea
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Edward Bouverie Pusey, The Minor Prophets: A Commentary; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Hosea 10:14-15; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.