Hosea 5:8
Context| NETBible | Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah! Sound the trumpet in Ramah! Sound the alarm in Beth Aven! 1 Tremble in fear, 2 O Benjamin! |
| XREF | Jos 7:2; Jud 5:14; Jud 19:12-15; Jud 20:4-6; 1Sa 7:17; 1Sa 8:4; 1Sa 15:34; 2Sa 21:6; 1Ki 12:29; Isa 10:29; Jer 4:5; Jer 6:1; Ho 4:15; Ho 8:1; Ho 9:9; Ho 10:5,8; Ho 10:9; Joe 2:1,15 |
| NET © Notes |
1 sn See the note on the place name Beth Aven in 4:15. 2 tc The MT reads the anomalous אַחֲרֶיךָ בִּנְיָמִין (’akharekha binyamin, “behind you, O Benjamin”), a reading followed by many English versions. The LXX reads ἐξέστη (exesth) which might reflect an alternate textual tradition of הַחֲרִדוּ בִּנְיָמִין (hakharidu binyamin, “Tremble in fear, O Benjamin”); the verb form would be a Hiphil imperative 2nd person masculine plural from חָרַד (kharad, “to tremble, be terrified”; BDB 353 s.v. חָרַד). For discussion of this textual problem, see D. Barthélemy, ed., Preliminary and Interim Report on the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project, 5:236. |
