The Lord Will Punish Israel
What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? Hos. 9:5
What will ye... Question 4. Next, Hos. 9:14.
in your captivity... When you shall find yourselves far from your own country, without temple, without prophets, without priests, without sacrifices, and without solemn assemblies; what will be your sentiments? You will doubtless be willing to abstain from labor on those days, as you were accustomed to do; but your masters will not permit that but force you to your customary employments. Though the Israelites of the ten tribes were schismatics (differences in opinion or belief) and did not go up to the temple at Jerusalem, they omitted not to celebrate, in their own manner, the feasts of the Lord in their own country. And as these solemnities were always accompanied with festivity and rejoicing. It must have been a great mortification to them to be no longer able to celebrate them in the land of their captivity.
There will be nothing for them to do on these special days but mourn for the things that could have been. They would be away in a foreign land, away from their temple and their God.
He (God) cannot be worshiped off His own land by the Orthodox Jew. They will have to live like animals, divorced from religion, unable to hold communion with their God. What shall ye do for days of festival, or for a day of pilgrimage to Jehovah?
The rhetorical question in this verse emphasizes the exiles’ plight. Israel would be unable to celebrate the most important festival feasts and days in Hebrew or both to sing on her religious calendar. Perhaps the Feast of Tabernacles is specifically in view (cf. Lev. 23:39).
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