Hosea 5 is the fifth chapter of the Book of Hosea in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. The book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Hosea son of Beeri and this chapter is about God's judgments against the priests, the people, and the princes of Israel, for their multiple sins (Hosea 5:1-14), until they repent (Hosea 5:15), a topic which continues to chapter 6. It is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. Text The original text was written in Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 15 verses. Textual witnesses Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008). Fragments containing parts of this chapter in Hebrew were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, including 4Q78 (4QXIIc; 75–50 BCE) with extant verse 1. There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; B; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; Q; 6th century). Verse 1 Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you, because you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread over Tabor, "Priests ... house of Israel ...house of the king": calling all people, especially of the northern kingdom, including the king's court, no one was to be exempted. "The king": probably refers to Pekah (the contemporary of Ahaz, king of Judah) who first carried the idolatry far in Judah, while calling for joint Syrian and Israelite invasion, as also that of Assyria. "A snare on Mizpah, and a net spread over Tabor": Mizpah and Tabor refer to two high mountains in the northern land of Israel, which, according to Joseph ben Gorion, almost four miles high, had on the top of it a plain of almost three miles (or three and a quarter miles according to Josephus; Jeremiah 46:18), and where altars were set up to ensnare and draw people into idolatry. "Mizpah": the place of the solemn covenant between Jacob and Laban, and of his signal protection by God, lay in the mountainous part