King James Version
Hosea 5:10 in the King James Version says “The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.” — study this verse from Hosea chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.”
Hosea 5:10 · KJV
Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.
Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. rottenness: or, a worm
KJV Study — Public Domain
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“of Judah”
H3063jehudah (or judah), the name of five israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
“the bound”
H1366properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e., (by implication) a boundary; by extension the territory inclosed
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“therefore I will pour out”
H8210to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e., to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc
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