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Hosea 6 — Sermon Preparation
The people's shallow repentance contrasts with what God truly desires — steadfast love and genuine knowledge of him, not mere ritual. Below is a research summary for Hosea 6, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
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- classic sermon excerpts
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- preachers & commentators
Hosea 6 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֶפְרַיִם | ʼEphrayim | H669 | 2 | Ephrajim |
| חֶסֶד | cheçed | H2617 | 2 | kindness, piety |
| חָיָה | châyâh | H2421 | 2 | live, revive |
| יְהוּדָה | Yᵉhûwdâh | H3063 | 2 | Jehudah |
| יָדַע | yâdaʻ | H3045 | 2 | know, seeing |
| שׁוּב | shûwb | H7725 | 2 | turn, return |
| עָקֹב | ʻâqôb | H6121 | 1 | fraudulent, tracked |
How preachers through history handled this text
15 public-domain excerpts on Hosea 6, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“10. I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. 10. In domo Israel vidi flagitium, illic scortatio Ephraim, pollutus est Israel. 11. Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people. 11. Etiam Jehudah posuit messem (vel, plantam) tibi, dum ego reduco captivitatem populi mei (vel, in reducendo me, ad verbum, captivitatem populi mei.) Here God declares that he is the fit judge to take cognizance of the vices of Israel; …”
— Calvin, Commentary on Hosea, on Hosea 6:10–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Gilead 2— Hos 6:8
- Shechem— Hos 6:9
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