Hosea 5:7 — They have been unfaithful to the Lord and have had children that are not his. N… — FBV | maBible
Read Hosea 5:7 (Free Bible Version) on maBible, the Bible online. Other reference formats: Hosea 5.7, Hosea 5v7, Os. 5:7. They have been unfaithful to the Lord and have had children that are not his. Now the New Moon will destroy them along with their fields.
Other reference formats: Hosea 5.7, Hosea 5v7, Os. 5:7.
7 They have been unfaithful to the Lord and have had children that are not his. Now the New Moon will destroy them along with their fields.
Notes and references
The word used here of the children is that they are “foreign”—meaning that they are both illegitimate and also the offspring of “foreign” gods.
Various explanations of this sentence have been given. The observance of New Moon festivals was part of Israelite worship but had become corrupted (see for example Isaiah 1:13), so this could be now taken as a symbol for pagan worship. In addition the northern kingdom under Jeroboam had instituted…