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Hosea 7:1 KJV
Hosea · chapter 7 · verse 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.Hosea 7:1 · King James Version
Hosea 7:1 in context
1When 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.
2And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- discoveredgâlâhto denudeH1540 →
- wickednessraʻbad or evilH7451 →
- falsehoodsheqeran untruthH8267 →
- iniquityʻâvônperversityH5771 →
- EphraimʼEphrayimEphrajim, a son of JosephH669 →
- SamariaShômᵉrôwnShomeron, a place in PalestineH8111 →
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Some take away the last words of the foregoing chapter, and make them the beginning of this: "When I returned, or would have returned, the captivity of my people, when I was about to come towards them in ways of mercy, even when I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim (the country and common people)…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7