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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 1:2

Hosea 1:2. The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea Or, as some render it, to Hosea; phrases however of different import; for to speak to a person, expresses that the discourse was immediately addressed to him. To speak by him, that through him it was addressed to others. And that the speech so addressed to others was not the person’s own, but God’s; God using him as his organ of speech to the people. This latter is evidently the meaning of the Hebrew phrase here used, which is... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hosea 1:1-11

1:1-3:5 HOSEA’S FAMILY LIFE AND ITS LESSONSHosea, Gomer and their children (1:1-2:1)The prophet begins his book by outlining his experiences with his unfaithful wife, Gomer. Gomer was probably not a prostitute when Hosea was told to marry her. In recording the story, Hosea is looking back over the events that happened, recalling that the woman whom he married and who bore him children became a prostitute. Gomer’s unfaithfulness in leaving him for other men pictured Israel’s unfaithfulness in... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hosea 1:2

The beginning, &c. This may be understood not merely of Hosea ' sprophecies, but as referring to the fact that Hosea was the first (canonically) of fifteen prophets included in the Hebrew canon. See App-77 . by = in, as in Numbers 12:6 , Numbers 12:8 . Habakkuk 2:1 .Zechariah 1:9 , i.e. through. a wife of whoredoms: i.e. a woman of the northern kingdom, and therefore regarded as an idolatress. whoredoms = idolatries. The one term is used for the other by Figure of speech Metonymy (of... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hosea 1:2

"When Jehovah spoke at the first by Hosea, Jehovah said unto Hosea, Go take unto thee a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom; for the land doth commit great whoredom, departing from Jehovah."There can be no doubt from this verse that God actually commanded Hosea to marry a "woman of whoredom"; but it is definitely not stated that he was commanded to marry a harlot, a widespread assumption which appears to be unjustified. As more thoroughly discussed in the introduction, our viewpoint is... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hosea 1:2

Hosea 1:2. Take unto thee a wife of whoredoms— That is, a woman, who, before her marriage, had lived an impure life, but who afterward should retire from all bad conversation, and whose children should be legitimate, notwithstanding that, by reason of the blemish which their mother had contracted by her former life, they were called the children of whoredoms. This prostitute woman, and the children to be born of her, were a figure, and a kind of real prophecy, which described the idolatry and... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hosea 1:2

2. beginning—not of the prophet's predictions generally, but of those spoken by Hosea. take . . . wife of whoredoms—not externally acted, but internally and in vision, as a pictorial illustration of Israel's unfaithfulness [HENGSTENBERG]. Compare Ezekiel 16:8; Ezekiel 16:15, c. Besides the loathsomeness of such a marriage, if an external act, it would require years for the birth of three children, which would weaken the symbol (compare Ezekiel 4:4). HENDERSON objects that there is no hint of... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hosea 1:2

At the beginning of Hosea’s ministry, Yahweh commanded him to take a wife of harlotry and to have children of harlotry. The reason the Lord gave for this unusual command was that the land of Israel (i.e., the people of the Northern Kingdom, cf. Hosea 4:1) were committing flagrant harlotry in the sense that they had departed from the Lord to pursue other loves. The Lord used personification to picture the land (i.e., the people of the land) as a woman acting as a prostitute.Students of this book... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hosea 1:2-9

A. Signs of coming judgment 1:2-9The Lord used Hosea’s family members as signs to communicate His message of coming judgment on Israel. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 1:1-11

Hosea's Marriage and its Lessons1. A general heading. Hosea 1:2-9. The prophet's marriage with Gomer, the birth of her three children, and the symbolical meaning attached to them. Hos 1:1 to Hosea 2:1. The future material and religious prosperity of the people.1. A general heading, perhaps the work of a late Judæan editor. Hosea 1-3 probably belong to the time of Jeroboam II; but it is extremely improbable that any of the prophecies belong to so late a date as the days of Hezekiah, when the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hosea 1:2

(2) The beginning of the word . . .—More correctly, In the beginning when the Lord spoke to Hosea, the Lord said . . .Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms.—How are we to interpret the prophet’s marriage to the licentious Gomer? Is it an historic occurrence, the only too real tragedy of the author’s personal experience, employed for the purpose of illustration? (Comp. the domestic incident, Isaiah 8:1-4.) Or is this opening chapter a merely allegorical representation, designed to exhibit in... read more