Hosea 11:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

Hosea 11:6 —

Old words in this verse

abide: — stay, remain, live.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 13:16
Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Hosea 10:6
It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
Hosea 10:14
Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
Jeremiah 5:17
And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
Deuteronomy 32:25
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

Topics

Arms Israel, Prophecies Concerning Sword

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

Here we find, I. God very gracious to Israel. They were a people for whom he had done more than for any people under heaven, and to whom he had given more, which they are here, I will not say upbraided with (for God gives, and upbraids not), but put in mind of, as an aggravation of their sin and an encouragement to repentance. 1. He had a kindness for them when they were young (Hos. 11:1): When Is…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. abide--or, “fall upon” [Calvin]. branches--that is, his villages, which are the branches or dependencies of the cities [Calvin]. Grotius translates, “his bars” (so La 2:9), that is, the warriors who were the bulwarks of the state. Compare Ho 4:18, “rulers” (Margin), “shields” (Psa 47:9). because of their own counsels--in worshipping idols, and relying on Egypt (compare Ho 10:6).