King James Version
Hosea 10:6 in the King James Version says “It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be asha...” — study this verse from Hosea chapter 10 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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 10:6 · KJV
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it. the priests: or, Chemarim
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.
As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water. the water: Heb. the face of the water
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
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properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“unto Assyria”
H804ashshur, the second son of shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e., assyria), its region and its empire
“It shall be also carried”
H2986properly, to flow; causatively, to bring (especially with pomp)
“for a present”
H4503a donation; euphemistically, tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering (usually bloodless and voluntary)
“Ephraim”
H669ephrajim, a son of joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
“shall be ashamed”
H954properly, to pale, i.e., by implication to be ashamed; also (by implication) to be disappointed or delayed
“and Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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