Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 1:2
A wife of whoredoms - That is, says Newcome, a wife from among the Israelites, who were remarkable for spiritual fornication, or idolatry. God calls himself the husband of Israel; and this chosen nation owed him the fidelity of a wife. See Exodus 34:15 ; Deuteronomy 31:16 ; Judges 2:17 ; Isaiah 54:5 ; Jeremiah 3:14 ; Jeremiah 31:32 , Ezekiel 16:17 ; Ezekiel 23:5 , Ezekiel 23:27 ; Hosea 2, Hosea 5:1-15 ; Revelation 17:1 , Revelation 17:2 . He therefore says, with... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered ,.... Though called Loammi, and rejected from being the people of God; yet there is a time when their number, according to the promise made to Abraham, shall be as the sand of the sea, and the stars of heaven; which, as the one cannot be measured, the other cannot be numbered; which was to be not at the return of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, when some of the ten tribes... read more