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Hosea 9:5

Hosea 9:5
What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord? Since their sacrifices now were so disagreeable and displeasing to the Lord, and so unavailable to themselves, what would…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

What will ye do in the solemn day? - Man is content to remain far from God, so that God do not show him, that He has withdrawn Himself from him. Man would fain have the power of drawing near to God in…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

What will ye do in the solemn day - When ye shall be despoiled of every thing by the Assyrians; for the Israelites who remained in the land after its subjection to the Assyrians did worship the true…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Hosea 9:1-6

Here, I. The people of Israel are charged with spiritual adultery: O Israel! thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, Hos 9:1. Their covenant with God was a marriage-covenant, by which they were joined…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

What will ye do, &c. The festivals, which were kept up in N. Israel, even after the schism, were seasons of popular merry-making (see Hos 2:11). But now as each -feast of Jehovah" comes round in the…

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