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When they celebrate their New Moon feasts, he will devour their fields.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/hosea/5.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />They have betrayed the honor of the LORD, bearing children that are not his. Now their false religion will devour them along with their wealth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/hosea/5.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />They have dealt faithlessly with the LORD; for they have borne alien children. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/hosea/5.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/hosea/5.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/hosea/5.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />They have dealt treacherously with the LORD, For they have begotten pagan children. Now a New Moon shall devour them and their heritage.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/hosea/5.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />They have dealt treacherously with the LORD, For they have given birth to illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/hosea/5.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />They have dealt treacherously against the LORD, For they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/hosea/5.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />They have dealt treacherously against the LORD, For they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/hosea/5.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />They have dealt treacherously against Yahweh, For they have borne children of strangers. Now the new moon will devour them with their portions.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/hosea/5.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />They have dealt treacherously against the LORD, For they have borne illegitimate (pagan) children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land [bringing judgment and captivity].<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/hosea/5.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />They betrayed the LORD; indeed, they gave birth to illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their fields.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/hosea/5.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />They betrayed the LORD; indeed, they gave birth to illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their fields. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/hosea/5.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they have borne strange children: now shall the new moon devour them with their fields.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/hosea/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />You have been unfaithful to me, your LORD; you have had children by prostitutes. So at the New Moon Festival, you and your crops will be destroyed. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/hosea/5.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />They have dealt treacherously against the LORD; for they have borne strange children: now shall the new moon devour them with their fields.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/hosea/5.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />They have been unfaithful to the LORD, because their children do not belong to him. Now their New Moon [Festivals] will devour them and their fields.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/hosea/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />They have been unfaithful to the LORD; their children do not belong to him. So now they and their lands will soon be destroyed. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/hosea/5.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />They have been unfaithful to the LORD, having raised unbelieving children. In the coming month they will be devoured, along with their fields. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/hosea/5.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/hosea/5.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />They have committed treason against the LORD, because they bore illegitimate children. Soon the new moon festival will devour them and their fields. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/hosea/5.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />They are unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/hosea/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/hosea/5.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/hosea/5.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Against YHWH they dealt treacherously, "" For they have begotten strange sons, "" Now a month consumes them [with] their portions.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/hosea/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Against Jehovah they dealt treacherously, For strange sons they have begotten, Now consume them doth a month with their portions.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/hosea/5.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Against Jehovah they acted faithlessly: for they begat strange sons: now shall the new moon consume them with their portions.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/hosea/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />They have transgressed against the Lord, for they have begotten children that are strangers: now shall a month devour them with their portions. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/hosea/5.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />They have sinned against the Lord. For they have conceived sons that are strangers. Now one month will devour them with all their own.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hosea/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />They have betrayed the LORD, for they have borne illegitimate children; Now the new moon will devour them together with their fields. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/hosea/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />They have dealt faithlessly with the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon shall devour them along with their fields.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/hosea/5.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />They have dealt falsely with the LORD, for they have begotten alien children.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/hosea/5.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />For they were unfaithful to LORD JEHOVAH, because they gave birth to foreign children<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/hosea/5.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />They have dealt treacherously against the LORD, For they have begotten strange children; Now shall the new moon devour them with their portions.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/hosea/5.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />For they have forsaken the Lord; for strange children have been born to them: now shall the cankerworm devour them and their heritages.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/5-7.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpPG1oLnpGk?start=741" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/hosea/5.htm">God's Judgment on Israel and Judah</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">6</span>They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them. <span class="reftext">7</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/898.htm" title="898: bā·ḡā·ḏū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To act or deal treacherously. A primitive root; to cover; figuratively, to act covertly; by implication, to pillage.">They have been unfaithful</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (Prep-b:: N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">to the LORD;</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">for</a> <a href="/hebrew/3205.htm" title="3205: yā·lā·ḏū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- A primitive root; to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage.">they have borne</a> <a href="/hebrew/2114.htm" title="2114: zā·rîm (Adj-mp) -- A primitive root; to turn aside; hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically to commit adultery.">illegitimate</a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: ḇā·nîm (N-mp) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">children.</a> <a href="/hebrew/6258.htm" title="6258: ‘at·tāh (Adv) -- Now. From eth; at this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive.">Now</a> <a href="/hebrew/2320.htm" title="2320: ḥō·ḏeš (N-ms) -- New moon, a month. From chadash; the new moon; by implication, a month.">the New Moon</a> <a href="/hebrew/854.htm" title="854: ’eṯ- (Prep) -- With (denoting proximity). Probably from 'anah; properly, nearness, near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: yō·ḵə·lêm (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms:: 3mp) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">will devour them</a> <a href="/hebrew/2506.htm" title="2506: ḥel·qê·hem (N-mpc:: 3mp) -- Portion, tract, territory. From chalaq; properly, smoothness; also an allotment.">along with their land.</a> </span><span class="reftext">8</span>Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah; raise the battle cry in Beth-aven: Lead on, O Benjamin!…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/3-20.htm">Jeremiah 3:20</a></span><br />But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-4.htm">Isaiah 1:4</a></span><br />Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/16-32.htm">Ezekiel 16:32</a></span><br />You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/2-11.htm">Malachi 2:11</a></span><br />Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/32-20.htm">Deuteronomy 32:20</a></span><br />He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/17-15.htm">2 Kings 17:15-18</a></span><br />They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate. / They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal. / They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/57-3.htm">Isaiah 57:3-4</a></span><br />“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes! / Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/2-20.htm">Jeremiah 2:20</a></span><br />“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/23-37.htm">Ezekiel 23:37</a></span><br />For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/73-27.htm">Psalm 73:27</a></span><br />Those far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/12-39.htm">Matthew 12:39</a></span><br />Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/4-4.htm">James 4:4</a></span><br />You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/17-1.htm">Revelation 17:1-2</a></span><br />Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. / The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-2.htm">2 Corinthians 11:2-3</a></span><br />I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. / I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/16-4.htm">Matthew 16:4</a></span><br />A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Then He left them and went away.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.</p><p class="hdg">dealt.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/6-7.htm">Hosea 6:7</a></b></br> But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/48-8.htm">Isaiah 48:8</a></b></br> Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time <i>that</i> thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/59-13.htm">Isaiah 59:13</a></b></br> In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.</p><p class="hdg">begotten.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/nehemiah/13-23.htm">Nehemiah 13:23,24</a></b></br> In those days also saw I Jews <i>that</i> had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, <i>and</i> of Moab: … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/144-7.htm">Psalm 144:7,11</a></b></br> Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children; … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/malachi/2-11.htm">Malachi 2:11-15</a></b></br> Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god… </p><p class="hdg">a month.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/12-28.htm">Ezekiel 12:28</a></b></br> Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/zechariah/11-8.htm">Zechariah 11:8</a></b></br> Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/47-23.htm">Alien</a> <a href="/daniel/12-13.htm">Allotted</a> <a href="/ezekiel/47-22.htm">Begotten</a> <a href="/ezekiel/44-10.htm">Borne</a> <a href="/hosea/4-6.htm">Children</a> <a href="/daniel/7-26.htm">Consume</a> <a href="/daniel/9-5.htm">Dealt</a> <a href="/daniel/7-23.htm">Devour</a> <a href="/ezekiel/15-8.htm">Faithlessly</a> <a href="/hosea/2-11.htm">Festivals</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-10.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/23-2.htm">Illegitimate</a> <a href="/daniel/10-4.htm">Month</a> <a href="/hosea/2-11.htm">Moon</a> <a href="/hosea/4-11.htm">New</a> <a href="/ezekiel/48-29.htm">Portions</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/5-19.htm">Possessions</a> <a href="/daniel/11-39.htm">Strange</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-23.htm">Treacherously</a> <a href="/hosea/4-12.htm">Unfaithful</a> <a href="/hosea/4-3.htm">Waste</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/hosea/8-12.htm">Alien</a> <a href="/acts/1-17.htm">Allotted</a> <a href="/matthew/1-16.htm">Begotten</a> <a href="/joel/2-22.htm">Borne</a> <a href="/hosea/5-12.htm">Children</a> <a href="/hosea/7-7.htm">Consume</a> <a href="/hosea/6-7.htm">Dealt</a> <a href="/hosea/7-7.htm">Devour</a> <a href="/hosea/6-7.htm">Faithlessly</a> <a href="/amos/5-21.htm">Festivals</a> <a href="/hosea/10-4.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/john/8-41.htm">Illegitimate</a> <a href="/haggai/1-1.htm">Month</a> <a href="/joel/2-10.htm">Moon</a> <a href="/hosea/7-14.htm">New</a> <a href="/matthew/14-20.htm">Portions</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-17.htm">Possessions</a> <a href="/hosea/8-7.htm">Strange</a> <a href="/hosea/6-7.htm">Treacherously</a> <a href="/hosea/6-7.htm">Unfaithful</a> <a href="/hosea/5-9.htm">Waste</a><div class="vheading2">Hosea 5</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/5-1.htm">The judgments of God are denounced against the priests, people, and princes, </a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/5-9.htm">both of Israel and Judah, for their manifold sins.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/5-15.htm">An intimation is given of mercy on their repentance.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The covenant relationship between God and Israel is often depicted as a marriage, with unfaithfulness symbolizing idolatry and turning away from God (<a href="/exodus/34-15.htm">Exodus 34:15-16</a>). The Hebrew word for "unfaithful" can also mean "to act treacherously," indicating a deliberate betrayal. This unfaithfulness is not just a personal failing but a national one, reflecting the collective sin of the people.<p><b>for they have borne illegitimate children.</b><br>The "illegitimate children" symbolize the fruit of Israel's idolatry. In a literal sense, this could refer to children born from unions with pagan nations, but metaphorically, it represents the spiritual offspring of their unfaithfulness—corrupt practices and beliefs. This imagery is consistent with Hosea's earlier use of family metaphors, such as Gomer's unfaithfulness and the names of Hosea's children (<a href="/hosea/1-2.htm">Hosea 1:2-9</a>). The concept of illegitimacy underscores the impurity and unacceptability of their actions before God.<p><b>Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.</b><br>The New Moon was a time of celebration and worship in Israel (<a href="/numbers/10-10.htm">Numbers 10:10, 28</a>:11-15). However, here it is turned into a time of judgment. The phrase suggests that what was meant to be a time of renewal and blessing will instead bring destruction. This inversion of expectation serves as a warning of impending judgment due to their unfaithfulness. The "devour" imagery indicates total consumption, leaving nothing behind, which aligns with the prophetic warnings of exile and devastation (<a href="/amos/8-5.htm">Amos 8:5-10</a>). The mention of "their land" emphasizes the comprehensive nature of the judgment, affecting both the people and the land they inhabit, fulfilling the covenant curses outlined in <a href="/deuteronomy/28.htm">Deuteronomy 28</a>.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/h/hosea.htm">Hosea</a></b><br>A prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel, called by God to deliver messages of judgment and hope.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD (Yahweh)</a></b><br>The covenant God of Israel, who is portrayed as being betrayed by His people.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The Northern Kingdom, often depicted as unfaithful to God, engaging in idolatry and alliances with foreign nations.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/i/illegitimate_children.htm">Illegitimate Children</a></b><br>Symbolic of Israel's spiritual adultery and unfaithfulness, resulting in offspring that do not belong to God.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/n/new_moon.htm">New Moon</a></b><br>A time of religious observance in Israel, here representing a period of judgment rather than celebration.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_adultery.htm">Spiritual Adultery</a></b><br>Just as Israel was unfaithful to God, believers today must guard against idolatry and spiritual compromise.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_sin.htm">Consequences of Sin</a></b><br>The judgment described in Hosea serves as a warning that sin has real and devastating consequences.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/true_worship.htm">True Worship</a></b><br>God desires genuine worship and obedience, not mere ritualistic observance.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/covenant_faithfulness.htm">Covenant Faithfulness</a></b><br>Believers are called to remain faithful to their covenant relationship with God, reflecting His faithfulness to us.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_restoration.htm">Repentance and Restoration</a></b><br>Despite judgment, God's ultimate desire is for His people to return to Him and be restored.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hosea_5.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hosea 5</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/hosea_5_7__proof_of_israel's_unfaithfulness.htm">Hosea 5:7 – What proof exists that Israel literally bore “illegitimate children” due to religious unfaithfulness rather than political alliances? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_fuels_prostitution's_essence.htm">What drives the essence of prostitution?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_1_sam_20_5_with_ot_feasts.htm">How do we reconcile the timing of the New Moon feast in 1 Samuel 20:5 with other Old Testament passages referencing similar observances?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_remarriage_adultery.htm">Is a second marriage considered adultery?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hosea/5.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(7) <span class= "bld">Strange children</span> refers to offspring that followed in the ways of their mother. (Comp. Hosea 1) Some reference is involved to the consequences of intermarriage with heathen. The "month" may be a personification of the period of a month (Henderson), during which takes place the now closely impending (perhaps already commenced) invasion by Tiglathpileser (<a href="/2_kings/15-29.htm" title="In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.">2Kings 15:29</a>; 2 Chron. 19:21). This invasion was due in part to Ahaz having sought the aid of Assyria against Pekah and Rezin.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/5.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 7.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">They have dealt treacherously against the Lord: for they have begotten strange children.</span> This may refer to inter. marriages with idolaters, when the offspring of such forbidden unions departed still further from the worship of Jehovah; or the children of godless Jewish parents reflected yet more the wicked works and ways of such parents. In consequence of the infidelity of the wife, the children were not the offspring of lawful wedlock or conjugal union; in other words, they were children of whoredom - an adulterous generation. Lord's infidelity to the holy covenant had as its result a graceless, godless race - children strange and supposititions in the spiritual sense. <span class="cmt_word">Now shall a month devour them with their portions.</span> If <p><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> "month" be the right rendering, it is a note of time like "the day of the Lord;" and the sense is that a short time shall see the end of them - not only of their persons, but their properties, that is, their hereditary portions in Palestine. But <p><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> if "new moon" be the correct translation, the new moon, or sacrificial feasts celebrated at that season, will only rut,, not relieve, them. Their sinful sacrifices and vain oblations, on which they now placed their reliance, will procure, not their salvation, but perdition. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/hosea/5-7.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">They have been unfaithful</span><br /><span class="heb">בָּגָ֔דוּ</span> <span class="translit">(bā·ḡā·ḏū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_898.htm">Strong's 898: </a> </span><span class="str2">To cover, to act covertly, to pillage</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to the LORD;</span><br /><span class="heb">בַּיהוָ֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּֽי־</span> <span class="translit">(kî-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">they have borne</span><br /><span class="heb">יָלָ֑דוּ</span> <span class="translit">(yā·lā·ḏū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3205.htm">Strong's 3205: </a> </span><span class="str2">To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage</span><br /><br /><span class="word">illegitimate</span><br /><span class="heb">זָרִ֖ים</span> <span class="translit">(zā·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2114.htm">Strong's 2114: </a> </span><span class="str2">To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery</span><br /><br /><span class="word">children.</span><br /><span class="heb">בָנִ֥ים</span> <span class="translit">(ḇā·nîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> </span><span class="str2">A son</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Now</span><br /><span class="heb">עַתָּ֛ה</span> <span class="translit">(‘at·tāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6258.htm">Strong's 6258: </a> </span><span class="str2">At this time</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the New Moon</span><br /><span class="heb">חֹ֖דֶשׁ</span> <span class="translit">(ḥō·ḏeš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2320.htm">Strong's 2320: </a> </span><span class="str2">The new moon, a month</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will devour them</span><br /><span class="heb">יֹאכְלֵ֥ם</span> <span class="translit">(yō·ḵə·lêm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> </span><span class="str2">To eat</span><br /><br /><span class="word">along with their land.</span><br /><span class="heb">חֶלְקֵיהֶֽם׃</span> <span class="translit">(ḥel·qê·hem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2506.htm">Strong's 2506: </a> </span><span class="str2">Portion, tract, territory</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/5-7.htm">Hosea 5:7 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/hosea/5-7.htm">Hosea 5:7 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/hosea/5-7.htm">Hosea 5:7 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/hosea/5-7.htm">Hosea 5:7 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/hosea/5-7.htm">Hosea 5:7 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/5-7.htm">Hosea 5:7 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/5-7.htm">Hosea 5:7 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/5-7.htm">Hosea 5:7 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/5-7.htm">Hosea 5:7 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/hosea/5-7.htm">Hosea 5:7 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/hosea/5-7.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 5:7 They are unfaithful to Yahweh (Ho Hs Hos.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/hosea/5-6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 5:6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 5:6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/hosea/5-8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 5:8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 5:8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>