Bible Commentary

Plead with your mother, plead: for she [is] not my wife, neither [am] I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 2. Plead with your mother, plead ] The repetition of the appeal shews its urgency. ‘Do not murmur against me’, Jehovah … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Hosea 2:2”

Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. 1. The parallel lines here seem misleading. Say ye ] Now that the storm-cloud has rolled away, those names of baleful import Lo-ammi and Lo-ruhamah have ceased to be admissible, and are altered into the direct opposites. The verse is best understood as the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Hosea 2:1”

Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great [shall be] the day of Jezreel. 11. Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together ] Thus the schism … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Hosea 1:11”

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people, [there] it shall be said unto them, [Ye are] the sons of … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Hosea 1:10”

Then said [God], Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye [are] not my people, and I will not be your [God]. Call his name Lo-ammi – that is, not My people. The name of this third child expresses the last final degree of chastisement. As the scattering by God did not involve the being wholly unpitied; … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Hosea 1:9”

Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son. 8, 9. The birth of a Son Lo-ammi ] i.e. not my people. Observe the climax in the names. ‘Jezreel’ announces the judgement; Lo-ruhamah, the withdrawal of Jehovah’s affection; Lo-ammi, the treatment of Israel as a foreign people. I will not be your … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Hosea 1:8”

But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen. 7. But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah ] Grave as are the charges brought … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Hosea 1:7”

And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And [God] said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away. 6. bare a daughter ] The nation being personified sometimes as a man, sometimes as a woman. Lo-ruhamah ] … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Hosea 1:6”

And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. 5. the bow of Israel ] The bow, the symbol of power (Gen 49:24; Jer 49:35). in the valley of Jezreel ] It seemed fitting that this ‘battlefield of Palestine’ (as the valley … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Hosea 1:5”

And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little [while], and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel. 4. Call his name Jezreel ] The child of guilt; therefore not Israel but Jezreel … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Hosea 1:4”