Hosts, Lord of
Hosts, Lord of
in Isaias 9:9, as in many other passages of the Bible, designates God as supreme over untold armies of spiritual and other agencies, which He can employ to give effect to His purposes. The angels, the stars, as well as armies of men are represented in the Bible as subject to Him. The Septuagint Version sometimes simply translates the expression Lord of Hosts by a word which means the Omnipotent. In the text referred to, Isaias says that God, Who is Almighty, will bring about the fulfillment of His prophecy concerning Emmanuel.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Hosts, Lord of
hosts. See LORD OF HOSTS.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Hosts, Lord of
We do not meet with this name until 1Sa 1:3. It came in with prophetic testimony, faith laying hold of Jehovah’s glory when Israel had corrupted themselves, and were in a weak and low estate. Scripture reveals that there is a mighty heavenly host, and principalities and powers in the unseen world. God is the God of them all, as well as God of all the elements of nature, which have often been used by Him to punish His enemies. “The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.” Jdg 5:20. We read of ‘the God of hosts’ only a few times comparatively; it is mostly ‘Jehovah of hosts,’ and at times ‘Jehovah God of hosts,’ showing that it is in connection with Israel that God revealed Himself under this name. Jehovah of hosts dwelt between the cherubim. From the beginning of 1 Samuel these titles constantly occur to the end of the O.T. In Psa 24:10 the Lord Jesus is shown to be “Jehovah of hosts: he is the king of glory:” cf. Eph 1:20-21; Col 1:16. The same title occurs in the N.T. as the LORD OF SABAOTH. Rom 9:29 (in a quotation from Isa 1:9), and Jam 5:4.