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    Hosea · 11 verses

    Hosea 6

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    On the way to Shechem, a band of priests lies in ambush and murders; the priesthood has acquired the manners of a roadside gang.

    Words like lightningvv. 1–6

    The chapter begins with a return to the LORD, who has torn and wounded, yet promises to heal and bind up. Restoration is given a wonderfully precise timetable—two days, then the third—though the reason for those intervals is left unsaid. The LORD will come like rain, while human loyalty vanishes like dew; then words do the cutting, and judgment flashes like lightning. What is wanted is mercy and knowledge, rather than sacrifice and burnt offerings.

    The ambush on the roadvv. 7–10

    The charge darkens. Like Adam, the people have broken covenant. Gilead is marked by blood, and a band of priests waits like raiders on the way to Shechem. In the house of Israel, Ephraim practises prostitution, and Israel is defiled: the holy office, the city, and the household are all caught in the same grim account.

    A harvest appointedv. 11

    Judah is not left outside the reckoning. A harvest is appointed for Judah, joined to the promise that the LORD will restore His people from captivity.

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    1. Hos 6:1Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.

    2. Hos 6:2After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.

    3. Hos 6:3So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.

    4. Hos 6:4What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.

    5. Hos 6:5Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.

    6. Hos 6:6For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

    7. Hos 6:7But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.

    8. Hos 6:8Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood.

    9. Hos 6:9Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.

    10. Hos 6:10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.

    11. Hos 6:11Also for you, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore My people from captivity.

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    02 — Read alongside

    Where this is echoed

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    • 6Matthew 9:13But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
    • 6Matthew 12:7If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
    • 6Proverbs 21:3To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
    • 61 Samuel 15:22But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.
    • 6Amos 5:21“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
    • 6Ecclesiastes 5:1Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
    • 6Isaiah 1:11“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 of bulls and lambs and goats.
    • 1Job 5:18For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
    • 1Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
    • 11 Samuel 2:6The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
    • 3Jeremiah 24:7I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.
    • 6Jeremiah 22:16He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.
    • 1Lamentations 3:40–41Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
    • 3Hosea 14:5I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
    • 3Psalms 72:6May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.
    • 3Proverbs 2:1–5My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

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