Hosea 2:11
in Hosea 2I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
KJV
I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
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This verse in Hosea 2
Commentary
8 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
I will also cause her mirth to cease, her feast days ... - Israel had forsaken the temple of God; despised His priests; received from Jeroboam others whom God had not chosen; altered, at least, one of the festivals; celebrated all, where God had forbidden; and worshiped the Creator under the form of a brute creature (see Introduction).
This site's exposition
now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers
on Hosea 2:10-13
The judgment widens from provision to worship itself, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths silenced along with the vines and fig trees she called my rewards that my lovers have given me, the commentators noting the bitter irony of gifts she attributed to Baal now turned into forest for wild beasts to strip. The days of Baalim visited upon her, the burning of incense, the earrings and jewels put on for her lovers, the whole apparatus of the fertility cult is named item by item rather than gestured at generally. The section closes on the charge that names the root of everything listed, and forgat me, saith the Lord, forgetfulness rather than ignorance now the explicit verdict.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
"And now I will reveal her folly in the eyes of her lovers: and no man shall deliver her out of my hand: and I will cause all her mirth to cease, her solemnities, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her festival times. And I will destroy her vines, and her fig-trees, of which she said: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given me: and I will make her a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour her."
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Her feast days - Though apostate, Israel was fallen to idolatry, yet they retained many of the Mosaic rites and ceremonies. Her solemn feasts - The three annual feasts of tabernacles, weeks, and passover, all which ceased when they were carried captive, by Salmaneser.
I will also cause all her mirth to cease,....
It is as Mr. Burroughs observes here, Sin and mirth can never hold long together; but, if men will not take away sin from their mirth, God will take away mirth from their sin.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
her feast days--of Jeroboam's appointment, distinct from the Mosaic (1Ki 12:32). However, most of the Mosaic feasts, "new-moons" and "sabbaths" to Jehovah, remained, but to degenerate Israel worship was a weariness; they cared only for the carnal indulgence on them (Am 8:5).
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1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Her feast days - Jerusalem shall be pillaged and destroyed; and therefore all her joyous assemblies, and religious feasts, etc., shall cease.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
But she did not know She did not lay it to her heart, but showed herself as unknowing.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
and no man shall save her from My hand Even the merits of the Patriarchs have been depleted. [from Shabbath 55a]
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 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
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהִשְׁבַּתִּי֙ | vehishbati | and I will put an end to | H7673 → | 71 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| מְשׂוֹשָׂ֔הּ | mesosah | gaiety her | H4885 → | |
| חַגָּ֖הּ | chagah | festival[s] her | H2282 → | |
| חָדְשָׁ֣הּ | chadeshah | new moon[s] her | H2320 → | |
| וְשַׁבַּתָּ֑הּ | veshabbatah | and sabbath[s] her | H7676 → | |
| וְכֹ֖ל | vekhol | and every | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| מוֹעֲדָֽהּ׃ | moadah | appointed feast her | H4150 → | 223 times |
וְהִשְׁבַּתִּי֙and I will put an end to
vehishbatiH7673 →71 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
מְשׂוֹשָׂ֔הּgaiety her
mesosahH4885 →
חַגָּ֖הּfestival[s] her
chagahH2282 →
חָדְשָׁ֣הּnew moon[s] her
chadeshahH2320 →
וְשַׁבַּתָּ֑הּand sabbath[s] her
veshabbatahH7676 →
וְכֹ֖לand every
vekholH3605 →5413 times
מוֹעֲדָֽהּ׃appointed feast her
moadahH4150 →223 times
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
Amos 5:21“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
it leads to
- Isaiah 1:11–16
“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood…
- Proverbs 28:9
Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.
- Leviticus 26:31
I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
- Isaiah 66:3
Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s…
- Jeremiah 6:20
What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.”
- Isaiah 1:11–16
Through
Jeremiah 7:34I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”
it leads to
- Ezekiel 26:13
So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 26:13
Through
Jeremiah 16:9For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 25:10
Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Jeremiah 25:10
Through
Amos 8:5asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us…
it leads to
- Nehemiah 13:15–21
In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being…
- Nehemiah 13:15–21
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About Hosea
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Hosea 2:10-12; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.