Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. Hos. 6:7
they like men... The prophets and priests of Hos. 5:1-15, 9:1-17. The people had transgressed the covenant: A reference to the Mosaic Covenant (compare 8:1; Exo. 19:5-6), they made with God at Mount Sinai (Exo. 19 and 20). According to this covenant, God would punish them for their disobedience (Deut. Chapter 28), which was a personal affront to Him they dealt treacherously with Me.
These Israelite's thought they were better than the rest of the people of the world. Every person who ever lived, whether Jew or Gentile, has sinned.
Rom. 3:23 "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"
1Jhn. 1:10 "If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us."
Rather than pleasing God, the people had broken the covenant and been unfaithful (bāg̱aḏ; cf. see Hos. 5:7) to God. The Hebrew word for like Adam has been translated variously. At Adam (RSV) requires a slight change in the Hebrew and suggests a geographical place near the Jordan River. The presence of the word there in the next line, as well as references to other places in Hos. 6:8-9, might support this reading. Like men (KJV) takes the Hebrew 'āḏām in its widely attested generic sense, rather than as a proper name. In this case a comparison is made with fallen mankind, whose propensity to be unfaithful is well established (cf. Isa. 40:6-8, man’s ḥeseḏ [ glory, Isa. 40:6] is as transitory as grass and flowers that wither in the sun). On the other hand, the NIV and the NASB suggest a comparison with the first man, Adam, who blatantly violated God’s requirement by eating from the forbidden tree.
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