What is the context?
The women addressed through the cows-of-Bashan image oppress the poor and demand more drink. The criticism concerns their conduct and its victims.
The threatened hooks and departure through broken walls turn their apparent security into captivity. The image is severe rather than a guide to treating captives.
The invitation to multiply offerings at Bethel and Gilgal is biting irony. The enthusiasm of public religious activity has not answered the injustice already exposed.
The passage does not make women’s bodies or ordinary feasts the offense. Nor does its ironic invitation become a new approved worship schedule.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley takes the cattle image more broadly as oppressive rulers; the BSB explicitly addresses women and husbands. His older tithes after three years differs from the BSB’s every three days, so Deuteronomy’s tithe schedule should not silently replace the irony here.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.
Where can I study this further?
No deeper study linked yet.