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They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
Hosea 5:7 — KJV
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Hosea 5:7
King James Version (KJV)
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Hosea 5:7
Verse 7 of 15
Commentary
Commentary on Hosea 5:7
Theological / DevotionalStrange children. See on ch. 2:4.
Now shall a month devour them. Some have suggested that this implies that only a short time remains before the destruction of the kingdom. According to the alternative translation of the RSV, “now the new moon shall devour them,” the meaning is conveyed that their sacrificial feasts celebrated at that season will not save them from divine wrath.
The whole chapter is a record of the people’s substitution of idol worship for the worship of God, and this passage may thus be an allusion to the substitution of a different month for the Lord’s appointed month for religious worship, which substitution had been forced upon the nation by Jeroboam I (1 Kings 12:33).
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