Hosea 1:2-3 WEB

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 1:2

Spiritual infidelity. The figurative language in which Hosea was inspired to expose and denounce the sinful idolatry and apostasy of Israel is startling, and the symbolic act in which these sins were set forth in their abomination and horror is evidently intended to shock the mind of every reader. I. GOD IS THE HUSBAND OF HIS PEOPLE . Human relationships are pressed into the service of religion; and the fact that God created man in his own image is the justification of such... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 1:2-3

Hosea's marriage and prophetic training. When this text is announced, possibly some may say, "What a shocking subject to preach about! Well it is shocking, indeed. God intends it to be so. But to our feelings spiritual adultery should be even more revolting than the literal whoredom which the Holy Spirit presents here as its prophetic symbol. And we must not forget that this painful passage records "the beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea." I. HOSEA 'S CONJUGAL DISHONOR .... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 1:3

So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son . Kimchi conjectures that "Gomer was the name of a harlot well known at that time;" he also explains the name, according to his view of its symbolic import, as follows: "Gomer has the meaning of completion;" as if the prophet said, He will fully execute on them the punishment of their transgressions that he may forgive their iniquity." The names of the children born to the prophet are significant and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 1:3-9

Hosea's children. Not only was the prophet's marriage to be a sign; the children were to be for signs also. So, afterwards, were Isaiah's sons in Judah ( Isaiah 7:3 , Isaiah 7:14 ; Isaiah 8:3 ). Hosea's ill-starred children were cursed in the very names which they bore; and each of these was to be as a sermon to the nation. It may be that they personally walked for a time in their mother's evil ways; but whether or not, the names which they received concentrate into a focus Hosea's... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 1:3-9

Children of whoredoms. Hosea's children, like Isaiah's, were to be "for signs and wonders" in Israel ( Isaiah 8:18 ). Their names—Jezreel, Lo-ruhamah, Lo-ammi—were significant. A prophetic word was attached to each. I. JEZREEL . (Verses 4, 5) This first name—"God will scatter"—foretells Israel's scattering. Through it judgment is denounced 1. The character of an action is determined by its motive . By the "blood of Jezreel" is meant the slaughter of the seed of Ahab ( 2... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 1:2

The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea or in Hosea - God first revealed Himself and His mysteries to the prophet’s soul, by His secret inspiration, and then declared, through him, to others, what He had deposited in him. God enlightened him, and then others through the light in him.And the Lord said unto Hosea - For this thing was to be done by Hosea alone, because God had commanded it, not by others of their own mind. To Isaiah God first revealed Himself, as sitting in the temple,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 1:3

So he went - He did not demur, nor excuse himself, as did even Moses Exodus 4:18, or Jeremiah Jeremiah 1:6, or Peter Acts 10:4, and were rebuked for it, although mercifully by the All-Merciful. Hosea, accustomed from childhood to obey God and every indication of the will of God, did at once, what he was bidden, however repulsive to natural feeling, and became, thereby, the more an image of the obedience of Christ Jesus, and a pattern to us, at once to believe and obey God’s commands, however... read more

Joseph Benson

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

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 1:3

Hosea 1:3. So he went and took Gomer, &c. The word Gomer signifies failing, or consuming, (see Psalms 12:1,) so that the very name of the harlot, whom Hosea took, was symbolical, signifying that the kingdom of Israel would experience a great failing, consumption, or decrease of its people; which indeed it did, through the Assyrian kings’ carrying away vast numbers of them, from time to time, into captivity. The daughter of Diblaim Diblaim signifies heaps of figs; this name,... 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

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 1:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 1:3

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

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 1:3

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hosea 1:1-11

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