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Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen, royal house! This judgment is against you: You have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor. <a href="/nlt/hosea/5.htm">New Living Translation</a> “Hear this, you priests. Pay attention, you leaders of Israel. Listen, you members of the royal family. Judgment has been handed down against you. For you have led the people into a snare by worshiping the idols at Mizpah and Tabor. <a href="/esv/hosea/5.htm">English Standard Version</a> Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor. <a href="/bsb/hosea/5.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> “Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor. <a href="/kjv/hosea/5.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/hosea/5.htm">New King James Version</a> “Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For yours is the judgment, Because you have been a snare to Mizpah And a net spread on Tabor. <a href="/nasb_/hosea/5.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, house of Israel! Listen, you of the house of the king! For the judgment applies to you, Because you have been a trap at Mizpah, And a net spread out on Tabor. <a href="/nasb/hosea/5.htm">NASB 1995</a> Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! For the judgment applies to you, For you have been a snare at Mizpah And a net spread out on Tabor. <a href="/nasb77/hosea/5.htm">NASB 1977 </a> Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! For the judgment applies to you, For you have been a snare at Mizpah, And a net spread out on Tabor. <a href="/lsb/hosea/5.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you, For you have been a snare at Mizpah And a net spread out on Tabor. <a href="/amp/hosea/5.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Hear this and pay close attention, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! For the [pronounced] judgment pertains to you and is meant for you to hear, Because you have been a snare at Mizpah And a net spread out over Tabor (military strongholds on either side of the Jordan River). <a href="/csb/hosea/5.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Hear this, priests! Pay attention, house of Israel! Listen, royal house! For the judgment applies to you because you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread out on Tabor. <a href="/hcsb/hosea/5.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Hear this, priests! Pay attention, house of Israel! Listen, royal house! For the judgment applies to you because you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread out on Tabor. <a href="/asv/hosea/5.htm">American Standard Version</a> Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king; for unto you pertaineth the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. <a href="/cev/hosea/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Listen, you priests! Pay attention, Israel! Listen, you members of the royal family. Justice was your duty. But at Mizpah and Mount Tabor you trapped the people. <a href="/erv/hosea/5.htm">English Revised Version</a> Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, ye house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king, for unto you pertain the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. <a href="/gwt/hosea/5.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> "Listen to this, you priests! Pay attention, nation of Israel! Open your ears, royal family! This is my decision about you. You set traps at Mizpah and spread out nets on Mount Tabor. <a href="/gnt/hosea/5.htm">Good News Translation</a> "Listen to this, you priests! Pay attention, people of Israel! Listen, you that belong to the royal family! You are supposed to judge with justice--so judgment will fall on you! You have become a trap at Mizpah, a net spread on Mount Tabor, <a href="/isv/hosea/5.htm">International Standard Version</a> "Hear this, priests, pay attention, house of Israel, listen, royal family! For judgment is coming your way, because you have been a trap to Mizpah, a snare spread out on Mount Tabor. <a href="/msb/hosea/5.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> ?Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor. <a href="/net/hosea/5.htm">NET Bible</a> Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen closely, O king! For judgment is about to overtake you! For you were like a trap to Mizpah, like a net spread out to catch Tabor. <a href="/nheb/hosea/5.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> "Listen to this, you priests. Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king. For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor. <a href="/wbt/hosea/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is towards you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. <a href="/web/hosea/5.htm">World English Bible</a> “Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/hosea/5.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> “Hear this, O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, "" And, O house of the king, give ear, "" For the judgment [is] for you, "" For you have been a snare on Mizpah, "" And a net spread out on Tabor. <a href="/ylt/hosea/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Hear this, O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, And, O house of the king, give ear, For the judgment is for you, For, a snare ye have been on Mizpah, And a net spread out on Tabor. <a href="/slt/hosea/5.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Hear this ye priests, and attend, ye house of Israel, and give ear, ye house of the king; for the judgment is to you, because ye were a snare to the watch tower and a net stretched out upon Tabor.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/hosea/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Hear ye this, O priests, and hearken, O ye house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king: for there is a judgment against you, because you have been a snare to them whom you should have watched over, and a net spread upon Thabor. <a href="/cpdv/hosea/5.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Hear this, priests, and pay attention, house of Israel, and listen closely, house of the king. For there is a judgment against you, because you have become a trap for those you watched over, and a net stretched out over Tabor. <a href="/nabre/hosea/5.htm">New American Bible</a> Hear this, priests, Pay attention, house of Israel, Household of the king, give ear! For you are responsible for judgment. But you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread upon Tabor, <a href="/nrsvce/hosea/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! For the judgment pertains to you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor,<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/hosea/5.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> HEAR this, O priests; and give ear, O house of Israel; and listen, O house of the king; for the judgment is for you, because you have been a snare to prophets and a net spread upon Tabor. <a href="/hpbt/hosea/5.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Hear this Priests, and obey, house of Israel, and house of the King, hear, because yours is the judgment, because you have been a trap to the Watchmen and a net that is spread on Tabor<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/hosea/5.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Hear this, O ye priests, And attend, ye house of Israel, And give ear, O house of the king, For unto you pertaineth the judgment; For ye have been a snare on Mizpah, And a net spread upon Tabor. <a href="/sep/hosea/5.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> Hear these things, ye priests; and attend, O house of Israel; and hearken, O house of the king; for the controversy is with you, because ye have been a snare in Scopia, and as a net spread on Itabyrium, <a href="/parallel/hosea/5-1.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpPG1oLnpGk?start=675" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/hosea/5.htm">God's Judgment on Israel and Judah</a> 1<a href="/hebrew/8085.htm" title="8085: šim·‘ū- (V-Qal-Imp-mp) -- To hear. A primitive root; to hear intelligently.">“Hear</a> <a href="/hebrew/2063.htm" title="2063: zōṯ (Pro-fs) -- Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that. Irregular feminine of zeh; this.">this,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3548.htm" title="3548: hak·kō·hă·nîm (Art:: N-mp) -- Priest. Active participle of kahan; literally, one officiating, a priest; also an acting priest.">O priests!</a> <a href="/hebrew/7181.htm" title="7181: wə·haq·šî·ḇū (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-Imp-mp) -- To incline (ears), attend. A primitive root; to prick up the ears, i.e. Hearken.">Take heed,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: bêṯ (N-msc) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">O house</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">of Israel!</a> <a href="/hebrew/238.htm" title="238: ha·’ă·zî·nū (V-Hifil-Imp-mp) -- A primitive root; probably to expand; but used only as a denominative from 'ozen; to broaden out the ear, i.e. to listen.">Give ear,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4428.htm" title="4428: ham·me·leḵ (Art:: N-ms) -- King. From malak; a king.">O royal</a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: ū·ḇêṯ (Conj-w:: N-msc) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">house!</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">For</a> <a href="/hebrew/4941.htm" title="4941: ham·miš·pāṭ (Art:: N-ms) -- Judgment. ">this judgment</a> <a href="/hebrew/lā·ḵem (Prep:: 2mp) -- ">is against you</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">because</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: hĕ·yî·ṯem (V-Qal-Perf-2mp) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">you have been</a> <a href="/hebrew/6341.htm" title="6341: p̄aḥ (N-ms) -- A, sheet, a spring net. From pachach; a sheet; also a spring net.">a snare</a> <a href="/hebrew/4709.htm" title="4709: lə·miṣ·pāh (Prep-l:: N-proper-fs) -- The name of several places in Isr. Feminine of Mitspeh; Mitspah, the name of two places in Palestine.">at Mizpah,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7568.htm" title="7568: wə·re·šeṯ (Conj-w:: N-fsc) -- A net. From yarash; a net.">a net</a> <a href="/hebrew/6566.htm" title="6566: pə·rū·śāh (V-Qal-QalPassPrtcpl-fs) -- To spread out, spread. A primitive root; to break apart, disperse, etc.">spread out</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">on</a> <a href="/hebrew/8396.htm" title="8396: tā·ḇō·wr (N-proper-fs) -- From a root corresponding to tbar; broken region; Tabor, a mountain in Palestine, also a city adjacent.">Tabor.</a> 2The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I will chastise them all.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/isaiah/28-7.htm">Isaiah 28:7-8</a> These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments. / For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth. <a href="/amos/5-10.htm">Amos 5:10</a> There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity. <a href="/micah/3-11.htm">Micah 3:11</a> Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.” <a href="/jeremiah/6-13.htm">Jeremiah 6:13-15</a> “For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit. / They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all. / Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD. <a href="/ezekiel/22-26.htm">Ezekiel 22:26</a> Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. <a href="/zephaniah/3-4.htm">Zephaniah 3:4</a> Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law. <a href="/malachi/2-7.htm">Malachi 2:7-8</a> For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts. / But you have departed from the way, and your instruction has caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Hosts. <a href="/isaiah/29-10.htm">Isaiah 29:10</a> For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers. <a href="/jeremiah/5-31.htm">Jeremiah 5:31</a> The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end? <a href="/ezekiel/13-10.htm">Ezekiel 13:10</a> Because they have led My people astray, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and whitewashing any flimsy wall that is built, <a href="/matthew/23-13.htm">Matthew 23:13-15</a> Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter. / Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter. / Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are. <a href="/luke/11-52.htm">Luke 11:52</a> Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.” <a href="/romans/2-17.htm">Romans 2:17-24</a> Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God; / if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; / if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness, ... <a href="/1_peter/5-2.htm">1 Peter 5:2-3</a> Be shepherds of God’s flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not out of greed, but out of eagerness; / not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. <a href="/matthew/15-14.htm">Matthew 15:14</a> Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Hear you this, O priests; and listen, you house of Israel; and give you ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.O priests.<a href="/hosea/4-1.htm">Hosea 4:1,6,7</a> Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land… <a href="/hosea/6-9.htm">Hosea 6:9</a> And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.<a href="/malachi/1-6.htm">Malachi 1:6</a> A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?O house.<a href="/hosea/7-3.htm">Hosea 7:3-5</a> They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies… <a href="/1_kings/14-7.htm">1 Kings 14:7-16</a> Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel, … <a href="/1_kings/21-18.htm">1 Kings 21:18-22</a> Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it… for.<a href="/hosea/9-11.htm">Hosea 9:11-17</a> As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception… <a href="/hosea/10-15.htm">Hosea 10:15</a> So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.<a href="/hosea/13-8.htm">Hosea 13:8</a> I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.ye have.<a href="/hosea/9-8.htm">Hosea 9:8</a> 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.<a href="/micah/7-2.htm">Micah 7:2</a> The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.<a href="/habakkuk/1-15.htm">Habakkuk 1:15-17</a> They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad… Tabor.<a href="/judges/4-6.htm">Judges 4:6</a> And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?<a href="/jeremiah/46-18.htm">Jeremiah 46:18</a> As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/daniel/9-19.htm">Attend</a> <a href="/daniel/9-13.htm">Attention</a> <a href="/hosea/4-1.htm">Ear</a> <a href="/hosea/4-1.htm">Hear</a> <a href="/daniel/9-19.htm">Hearken</a> <a href="/hosea/4-10.htm">Heed</a> <a href="/hosea/1-7.htm">House</a> <a href="/hosea/4-16.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/hosea/4-16.htm">Israelites</a> <a href="/hosea/2-19.htm">Judgment</a> <a href="/jeremiah/41-16.htm">Mizpah</a> <a href="/ezekiel/32-3.htm">Net</a> <a href="/hosea/2-12.htm">Pay</a> <a href="/ezekiel/42-14.htm">Pertaineth</a> <a href="/daniel/10-14.htm">Pertains</a> <a href="/hosea/4-9.htm">Priests</a> <a href="/daniel/11-45.htm">Royal</a> <a href="/ezekiel/17-20.htm">Snare</a> <a href="/ezekiel/47-10.htm">Spread</a> <a href="/jeremiah/46-18.htm">Tabor</a> <a href="/hosea/3-1.htm">Towards</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/micah/1-2.htm">Attend</a> <a href="/micah/1-2.htm">Attention</a> <a href="/hosea/9-17.htm">Ear</a> <a href="/hosea/7-12.htm">Hear</a> <a href="/hosea/9-17.htm">Hearken</a> <a href="/micah/6-9.htm">Heed</a> <a href="/hosea/5-12.htm">House</a> <a href="/hosea/5-3.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/hosea/5-5.htm">Israelites</a> <a href="/hosea/5-11.htm">Judgment</a> <a href="/genesis/31-49.htm">Mizpah</a> <a href="/hosea/7-12.htm">Net</a> <a href="/hosea/12-12.htm">Pay</a> <a href="/romans/9-4.htm">Pertaineth</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/11-30.htm">Pertains</a> <a href="/hosea/6-9.htm">Priests</a> <a href="/amos/7-13.htm">Royal</a> <a href="/hosea/9-8.htm">Snare</a> <a href="/hosea/7-12.htm">Spread</a> <a href="/joshua/19-12.htm">Tabor</a> <a href="/hosea/11-12.htm">Towards</a><div class="vheading2">Hosea 5</div>1. <a href="/hosea/5-1.htm">The judgments of God are denounced against the priests, people, and princes, </a> 9. <a href="/hosea/5-9.htm">both of Israel and Judah, for their manifold sins.</a> 15. <a href="/hosea/5-15.htm">An intimation is given of mercy on their repentance.</a> </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 priests in ancient Israel were responsible for leading the people in worship and maintaining the spiritual health of the nation. This call to the priests indicates their failure in their duties, as they were expected to be the mediators between God and the people. The rebuke suggests a corruption or negligence in their spiritual leadership, which is a recurring theme in the prophetic books (e.g., <a href="/malachi/2.htm">Malachi 2:1-9</a>).Take heed, O house of Israel! The "house of Israel" refers to the northern kingdom, which had separated from Judah after Solomon's reign. This phrase emphasizes the collective responsibility of the nation, highlighting that the entire community is implicated in the wrongdoing. The prophets often addressed the nation as a whole to call them back to covenant faithfulness (e.g., <a href="/amos/3.htm">Amos 3:1</a>).Give ear, O royal house! The royal house refers to the monarchy, likely the ruling dynasty of the northern kingdom. This call to the royal house underscores the accountability of the leaders, who were expected to govern according to God's laws. The failure of the kings to lead righteously often led the nation into idolatry and injustice (e.g., <a href="/1_kings/16-30.htm">1 Kings 16:30-33</a>).For this judgment is against you The judgment mentioned here is a divine pronouncement of impending punishment due to the nation's sins. The prophets frequently delivered messages of judgment as a means to call the people to repentance. This judgment is not arbitrary but is a response to specific covenant violations (e.g., <a href="/deuteronomy/28-15.htm">Deuteronomy 28:15-68</a>).because you have been a snare at Mizpah, Mizpah was a significant location in Israel's history, often associated with gatherings for national decision-making or worship (e.g., <a href="/1_samuel/7-5.htm">1 Samuel 7:5-6</a>). The reference to a "snare" suggests that the leaders have turned a place of potential spiritual renewal into one of entrapment, possibly through idolatry or false worship practices.a net spread out on Tabor. Mount Tabor is another significant site, known for its strategic location and its role in Israel's military history (e.g., <a href="/judges/4-6.htm">Judges 4:6</a>). The imagery of a "net" implies deception and entrapment, indicating that the leaders have ensnared the people in sin, leading them away from true worship. This metaphor highlights the leaders' culpability in leading the nation astray.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/p/priests.htm">Priests</a> Religious leaders in Israel responsible for spiritual guidance and maintaining the covenant with God. They are called out for their failure to lead the people righteously. 2. <a href="/topical/h/house_of_israel.htm">House of Israel</a> Refers to the entire nation of Israel, God's chosen people, who are being addressed collectively for their disobedience and idolatry. 3. <a href="/topical/h/house_of_the_king.htm">House of the King</a> The ruling monarchy in Israel, responsible for leading the nation in accordance with God's laws. They are implicated in the nation's moral and spiritual decline. 4. <a href="/topical/m/mizpah.htm">Mizpah</a> A location in Israel, possibly a site of idolatrous worship or political intrigue, symbolizing the nation's entrapment in sin. 5. <a href="/topical/t/tabor.htm">Tabor</a> Another geographical location, likely used metaphorically to represent the widespread nature of Israel's sin and the leaders' role in ensnaring the people.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/r/responsibility_of_leadership.htm">Responsibility of Leadership</a> Leaders, both spiritual and political, bear a significant responsibility for the moral and spiritual direction of their people. Their failure can lead to widespread consequences. <a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_idolatry.htm">The Danger of Idolatry</a> Idolatry is not just the worship of physical idols but can also be seen in misplaced priorities and allegiances. Believers must guard against anything that takes precedence over God. <a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance.htm">Call to Repentance</a> God's judgment is not without purpose; it is a call to repentance and a return to righteousness. Believers should be quick to heed God's warnings and turn back to Him. <a href="/topical/l/listening_to_god's_voice.htm">Listening to God's Voice</a> The repeated call to "hear" and "listen" emphasizes the importance of being attentive to God's word and instructions. Believers must cultivate a heart that is open to God's guidance. <a href="/topical/c/community_accountability.htm">Community Accountability</a> The collective address to the "house of Israel" underscores the communal aspect of faith. Believers are part of a larger body and must hold each other accountable in love and truth.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hosea_5.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hosea 5</a> <a href="/q/what_happened_to_ancient_giants.htm">Where is Mount Tabor mentioned in the Bible?</a> <a href="/q/where_is_mount_tabor_in_the_bible.htm">Where is Mount Tabor mentioned in the Bible?</a> <a href="/q/is_there_proof_of_beth-aven's_calf_idol.htm">Hosea 10:5: Do we have any archaeological proof of the calf idol in Beth-Aven, or is there a lack of external evidence supporting its existence?</a> <a href="/q/what_did_judas_do_with_the_blood_money.htm">What did Judas do with the blood money for betraying Jesus? He bought a field (Acts 1:18) and threw it into the temple; priests used it to buy a burial field (Matthew 27:5).</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>(1) House of the king refers to his following on both sides of the Jordan--Mizpah on the east side, in Gilead, and Tabor on the west. They are singled out as being military strongholds, where the princes of the royal house, with the apostate priests, exercised their deadly hold upon the people, waylaying them, as birds and beasts are snared in the mountains of prey. (Comp. <a href="/context/hosea/6-8.htm" title="Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.">Hosea 6:8-9</a>.)Judgment is toward you.--More accurately, is meant for you.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/5.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 1. - Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king. The persons here addressed comprise all the estates of the realm - priests, people, and princes. The house of Israel is the northern kingdom; and the house of the king is the members of the king's family, of his court and of his government. Thus the rulers and the ruled, the spiritual teachers and the taught, are comprehended in this address. Neither priestly office, nor popular power, nor princely dignity was to be exempted. But, though all are summoned to give audience, the heads of the people, the men of light and leading, are first arraigned. For judgment is toward you, as the clause is correctly rendered; not, "it devolves on you to maintain judgment," as some understand it. It had, indeed, been the province of the priest to teach, and of the king to execute the judgments of God in Israel; but now they are themselves the subjects of judgment. Judgment was now to begin at the house of the king and of the priest; God was about to execute judgment upon them - the judgment from that judgment-seat where justice never miscarries, and where no mistake is ever made. The cause of this is assigned. Because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. Instead of being safeguards of the people, they had been a snare to them; instead of being true leaders, as God had intended them, they had misled them; instead of contributing to their security, they had seduced them to sin and so helped to prepare them for destruction; they had been a snare to entrap and a net to entangle. East as well as west of the Jordan their evil influence had wrought ruin. Mizpah, now es-Salt, was on the east of the river among the hills of Gilead, where Jacob and Laban entered into covenant; Tabor, like a solitary cone or sugar-loaf, rises up from the plain of Jezreel, or Esdraelon, on the west of the river. On the wooded slopes of Tabor and the beacon-hill of Mizpah game, no doubt, abounded and found covert, and hence the origin of the figure here used; but they had probably become scenes of idolatry or wickedness. <a href="/commentaries/hosea/5-1.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Hear שִׁמְעוּ־ (šim·‘ū-) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8085.htm">Strong's 8085: </a> To hear intelligently this, זֹ֨את (zōṯ) Pronoun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2063.htm">Strong's 2063: </a> Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that, O priests! הַכֹּהֲנִ֜ים (hak·kō·hă·nîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3548.htm">Strong's 3548: </a> Priest Take heed, וְהַקְשִׁ֣יבוּ ׀ (wə·haq·šî·ḇū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7181.htm">Strong's 7181: </a> To prick up the ears, hearken O house בֵּ֣ית (bêṯ) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> A house of Israel! יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc Give ear, הַאֲזִ֔ינוּ (ha·’ă·zî·nū) Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_238.htm">Strong's 238: </a> To broaden out the ear, to listen O royal הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ (ham·me·leḵ) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4428.htm">Strong's 4428: </a> A king house! וּבֵ֤ית (ū·ḇêṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> A house For כִּ֥י (kî) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> A relative conjunction the judgment הַמִּשְׁפָּ֑ט (ham·miš·pāṭ) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4941.htm">Strong's 4941: </a> A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style is against you לָכֶ֖ם (lā·ḵem) Preposition | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> because כִּֽי־ (kî-) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> A relative conjunction you have been הֱיִיתֶ֣ם (hĕ·yî·ṯem) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> To fall out, come to pass, become, be a snare פַח֙ (p̄aḥ) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6341.htm">Strong's 6341: </a> A, sheet, a spring net at Mizpah לְמִצְפָּ֔ה (lə·miṣ·pāh) Preposition-l | Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4709.htm">Strong's 4709: </a> Mizpah -- the name of several places in Israel and a net וְרֶ֖שֶׁת (wə·re·šeṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7568.htm">Strong's 7568: </a> A net spread out פְּרוּשָׂ֥ה (pə·rū·śāh) Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6566.htm">Strong's 6566: </a> To break apart, disperse on עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against Tabor. תָּבֽוֹר׃ (tā·ḇō·wr) Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8396.htm">Strong's 8396: </a> Tabor -- a mountain Southwest of the Sea of Galilee <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/5-1.htm">Hosea 5:1 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/hosea/5-1.htm">Hosea 5:1 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/hosea/5-1.htm">Hosea 5:1 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/hosea/5-1.htm">Hosea 5:1 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/hosea/5-1.htm">Hosea 5:1 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/5-1.htm">Hosea 5:1 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/5-1.htm">Hosea 5:1 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/5-1.htm">Hosea 5:1 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/5-1.htm">Hosea 5:1 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/hosea/5-1.htm">Hosea 5:1 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/hosea/5-1.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 5:1 Listen to this you priests! 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