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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwin, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.
London: printed for Peter Cole, 1650
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 5 › Verse 8
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Obs. 2 But further, Ramah and Gibeah, they were two eminent Cities, and they did belong both to the Kingdom of Judah. ⟨p. 437⟩Indeed they were in the Tribe of Benjamin, but Benjamin and Judah were joined in one Kingdom under the house of David, and the other ten Tribes were rent away under Jeroboam. Now these two Cities (I say) were in the Kingdom of Judah and eminent Cities, and it is likely they were fortified Cities, and two of the strongest Cities in the Kingdom. Now God is here threatening of judgment against Judah as He did before when He said, Judah also shall fall with them. Therefore saith he, Blow ye the Cornet in Ramah, and the Trumpet in Gibeah, in the eminentest places of Judah, in the most fortified, and let us see how they are able to resist the misery that is coming upon them.
Obs. 2 But further, Ramah and Gibeah, they were two eminent Cities, and they did belong both to the Kingdom of Judah. ⟨p. 437⟩Indeed they were in the Tribe of Benjamin, but Benjamin and Judah were joined in one Kingdom under the house of David, and the other ten Tribes were rent away under Jeroboam. Now these two Cities (I say) were in the Kingdom of Judah and eminent Cities, and it is likely they were fortified Cities, and two of the strongest Cities in the Kingdom. Now God is here threatning of judgment against Judah as He did before when He said, Judah also shall fall with them. Therefore saith he, Blow ye the Cornet in Ramah, and the Trumpet in Gibeah, in the eminentest places of Judah, in the most fortified, and let us see how they are able to resist the miserie that is coming upon them.
And further, I find this to be the translation of the Chaldee paraphrase, that they would import as if the meaning were because that Gibeah was the City of Saul; and Ramah was the City of Samuel, therefore that God did threaten judgment for their making of a King against his mind, and for their disobedience to the words of Samuel. So they paraphrase the text. But I think that to be somewhat too far fetched. The other two I conceive are the mind of the holy Ghost here, in the high places of the Country, and especially in those eminent Cities that were the most fortified, that though they were in the Tribe of Benjamin, yet belonged to the Kingdom of Judah.