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Hosea 6 — Sermon Preparation

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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Hebrew words / lemmas
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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.

Calvin 9 Spurgeon 4 Matthew Henry 1 John Wesley 1

“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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