The scope of this chapter is the same with that of the foregoing chapter, to discover the sin both of Israel and Judah, and to denounce the judgments of God against them. I. They are called to hearken to the charge, Hos. 5:1 Hos. 5:8. II. They are accused of many sins, which are here aggravated. 1.

Here, I. All orders and degrees of men are cited to appear and answer to such things as shall be laid to their charge : Hear you this, O priests! whether in holy orders (as those in Judah, and perhaps many in Israel too, for in the ten tribes there were divers cities of priests and Levites, who, it…

Here is, I. A loud alarm sounded, giving notice of judgments coming : Blow you the cornet in Gibeah and in Ramah, two cities near together in the confines of the two kingdoms of Judah and Israel, Gibeah a frontier-town of the kingdom of Judah, Ramah of Israel; so that the warning is hereby sent…