Hosea 5:8

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Summary

Hosea 5:8

Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.

Blow

Gibeah

Isaiah 10:29

After

Judges 5:14

Bible References

Blow

Sound the alarm on the trumpet. The enemy swoops down on Jehovah's Temple like an eagle. The people of Israel have rejected my covenant promise and rebelled against my Law.

Report this message in Judah. Make it heard in Jerusalem. Say: Blow the ram's horn throughout the land. Shout loudly and say: 'Assemble together! Let us go into the fortified cities.'

Flee for safety people of Benjamin. Run from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow a ram's horn in Tekoa and raise a signal over Beth-haccerem. Evil looks down from the north. There is great destruction.

Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble for the day of Jehovah comes. It is near!

Gibeah

They have gone deep in depravity as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish their sins.

Jehovah says: The people of Israel have not stopped sinning against me since the time of their sin at Gibeah. So at Gibeah war will catch up with them.

But his master said: We are not going to stop in a city where the people are not Israelites.

The Levite whose concubine had been murdered answered: My concubine and I went to Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin to spend the night.

Samuel went to Ramah. Saul went up to his house in Gibeah, in the land of Saul.

Hand over seven of his male descendants. We will hang them before Jehovah at Gibeah, the hometown of Saul, Jehovah's chosen king. The king responded: I will hand them over to you.

They go over the pass and make Geba their camping place for the night. Ramah trembles and Gibeah of Saul flees.

After

They came from Ephraim to the valley. They were behind the tribe of Benjamin and its people. The commanders came down from Machir. The officers came down from Zebulun.