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Hosea 5:8
Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah,and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloudat Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.

Isaiah 18:3
All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

Isaiah 58:1
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

thy mouth.

Deuteronomy 28:49
The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth,as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

Jeremiah 4:13
Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariotsshall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.

Jeremiah 48:40
For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.

the house.

Hosea 9:15
All their wickednessis in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princesare revolters.

2 Kings 18:27
But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words?hath he notsent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

Amos 8:3
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD:there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall castthem forth with silence.

transgressed.

Hosea 6:7
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

Isaiah 24:5
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Jeremiah 31:32
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the daythat I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

An eagle looms over the house of the LORD,
The eagle is often a symbol of swiftness and power. In this context, it represents an impending threat, likely the Assyrian army, known for its speed and might. The "house of the LORD" refers to Israel, God's chosen people, who are under threat due to their disobedience. The imagery of an eagle is also used inDeuteronomy 28:49 to describe a nation that God would send against Israel as a consequence of their disobedience.

because the people have transgressed My covenant
The covenant refers to the agreement between God and Israel, established through figures like Abraham, Moses, and David. Transgressing the covenant implies a serious breach of faith and disobedience to God's commands. This is a recurring theme in the prophetic books, where Israel's unfaithfulness leads to divine judgment. The covenant was meant to set Israel apart as a holy nation (Exodus 19:5-6), and breaking it had severe consequences.

and rebelled against My law.
Rebellion against God's law indicates a deliberate and conscious decision to reject His commandments. The law, given through Moses, was central to Israel's identity and relationship with God. This rebellion is not just a legal infraction but a spiritual defiance against God's authority. The prophets frequently called Israel to repentance, urging them to return to the law (Jeremiah 6:19). This rebellion is seen as a rejection of God's kingship, similar to the rebellion in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3).

The verse opens with an urgent command—blow the shofar, the ram’s horn.

• In Israel, the shofar signaled war, danger, or a summons to gather (Numbers 10:9;Joshua 6:5).

• Prophets functioned as watchmen; sounding the horn meant warning the people before judgment fell (Ezekiel 33:3–6).

•Joel 2:1 gives a parallel scene: “Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain!”. Like Joel, Hosea calls the nation to attention and repentance.

The image now shifts from a trumpet to a predator.

• The eagle was a symbol of swift, overpowering invasion (Deuteronomy 28:49;Habakkuk 1:8).

• Hosea likely points to Assyria—fast, relentless, and hovering over the “house of the LORD,” meaning the covenant people of Israel (Hosea 9:3; 10:5).

•Jeremiah 48:40 declares, “For this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, one will soar like an eagle and spread his wings against Moab’ ”. Hosea uses the same imagery to paint an unavoidable judgment.

God explains the reason behind the looming disaster.

• Israel had pledged obedience at Sinai: “All that the LORD has spoken we will do” (Exodus 24:7). Their later idolatry violated that covenant (Hosea 6:7; 7:13).

• Covenant-breaking carried curses outlined inDeuteronomy 28:15–68. The eagle imagery fulfills those warnings (Deuteronomy 28:49).

The indictment intensifies: it is not ignorance but rebellion.

• Rebellion is willful;1 Samuel 15:23 equates it with witchcraft.

•Isaiah 1:2 laments, “I raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me”. Hosea echoes this heartbreak.

• God’s “law” (torah) provided the path of blessing (Deuteronomy 30:15–20). Choosing the opposite path invited the coming eagle.

Hosea 8:1 sounds a twofold alarm: the prophet must blow the shofar, and an eagle—the symbol of a swift, foreign invader—already casts its shadow over Israel. The reason is clear: the nation has broken God’s covenant and defiantly rejected His law. The verse warns that divine judgment is imminent, yet the very blast of the ram’s horn also invites repentance before the eagle strikes.

(1) trumpet is at once to be employed for the purpose. The rendering of both the Targum and Syriac

(2) expresses the same idea, though under a different form; the former has, "Cry with thy throat, as if it were a trumpet;" and the latter, "Let thy mouth be as a trumpet." According to this view, the Prophet Hoses expresses here very briefly what Isaiah has done more fully in the words, "Cry aloud [Hebrew, 'with the throat'] spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins."

(3) The LXX. here deviates considerably from the Maseoretic Hebrew text, translatingεἰς κόλπον (תֵיקְך)αὐτῶν,ὡς γῆ, of the meaning of which Jerome acknowledges his ignorance, though he attempts to explain it. Cyril connects the words with the concluding part of the preceding chapter, thus: "This their setting at naught (of me) in the land of Egypt shall come into their own bosom. As the land, as the eagle against the house of the Lord;" while his explanation is as follows: "Since, though I preserved them and instructed them, and gave them victory over their enemies (for I strengthened them), they have impiously set me at naught, worshipping demons for gods, and have trusted to the land of the Egyptians, and have fancied that their help shall be sufficient for their prosperity, therefore their attempt shall return unto their own besom, and they shall find no good reward of their temerity; but they shall receive, as it were, into their bosom the deserved punishment. For he shall come, he shall come who shall lay them waste - the King of Assyria, with an innumerable multitude of warriors, and he shall come to them as the whole land and region and country, that one might think that the whole region of the Persians and Medes had wholly migrated and had come into Samaria. This is the meaning of the whole land (ὡς γῆ). He shall likewise come as an eagle into the house of the Lord." (He shall come)as an eagle against the house of the Lord. These words cannot mean, . . .

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