Hosea 4:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

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Hosea 6:9
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
Jeremiah 6:7
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
Hosea 7:1
When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
Jeremiah 5:26-27
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. …
1 Thessalonians 2:15
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

Topics

Adultery Avenger of Blood Cheating Commandments Copulation Crime Deceit Deception

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-5)

Here is, I. The court set, and both attendance and attention demanded: “ Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel, for to you is the word of this conviction sent, whether you will hear or whether you will forbear.” Whom may God expect to give him a fair hearing, and take from him a fair warning, but the children of Israel, his own professing people? Yea, they will be ready enough to hear…

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

(vv. 2)

2. they break out--bursting through every restraint. blood toucheth blood--literally, “bloods.” One act of bloodshed follows another without any interval between (see 2Ki 15:8-16, 25; Mi 7:2).