Hosea 9:8 KJV — MannaFest

Hosea 9:8

The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

KJV

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ASV

Ephraim was a watchman with my God: as for the prophet, a fowler’s snare is in all his ways, and enmity in the house of his God.

WEB

The prophet is Ephraim’s watchman, along with my God, yet the snare of the fowler lies on all his paths. Hostility is in the house of his God!

YLT

Ephraim is looking away from My God, The prophet! a snare of a fowler is over all his ways, Hatred is in the house of his God.

DBT

Is Ephraim a watchman with myGod? [nay] the prophet is a fowler's snare on all his ways, enmity in the house of hisGod.

About this book

Old Testament

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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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Psalms 91:3
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
Hosea 5:1
Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
2 Peter 2:1
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Ezekiel 3:17
Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
John 15:24
If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

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Woe unto thee, O land! unto thee, O church! that hast such watchmen, such prophets, that are seers, but not doers! Corruptio optimi est pessima--The best things, when corrupted, become the worst. That God will now reckon with them for the sins of their fathers, which they have trod in the steps of,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The watchman . . . was with my God--The spiritual watchmen, the true prophets, formerly consulted my God (Jer 31:6; Hab 2:1); but their so-called prophet is a snare, entrapping Israel into idolatry. hatred--rather, "(a cause of) apostasy" (see Ho 9:7) [MAURER]. house of his God--that is, the state of Ephraim, as in Ho 8:1 [MAURER].

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

The prophet - The false prophets have, as well as the people, left God. Is a snare - Their pretended predictions are but a snare, such as fowlers lay. And hatred - Such prophets are full of hatred and malice: yea, they are hatred itself.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

HOS 9:8ISA 62:6 ISA 52:8
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
HOS 9:8ISA 62:6 JER 6:17
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
HOS 9:8ISA 62:6 EZE 3:17-21
HOS 9:8ISA 62:6 PSA 134:1-2
HOS 9:8ISA 62:6 1TH 5:17
HOS 9:8EZE 3:17 2CH 19:10
HOS 9:8JHN 15:24 JHN 14:9
HOS 9:8JHN 15:24 JHN 5:36

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