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John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 3:1-5

The Attempts to Reclaim the erring WifeIn an episode in the life of Hosea and his relations with Gomer (cp. Hosea 2:14) the prophet finds a parable of Jehovah’s punishment of Israel. Having bought back his erring wife, as though she were a slave, he subjects her to gentle restraint, depriving her for a time of conjugal rights, in hope of securing her love (1-3). So Israel, deprived in exile of forms of government and of outward worship, would be ready to receive her true king and spouse (4,... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hosea 3:4

(4) The prophet suddenly passes from his personal history to that of Israel, which it symbolised.Without a king . . .—The isolation of Gomer’s position pre-figured that of Israel in the exile. Her bitter experience was a parable of Israel’s utter deprivation of all civil and religious privilege. There was to be no king, or prince, or sacred ritual of any kind. Observe that the terms of both cultus are here intermingled, suggesting the idolatrous conceptions of the pure ancient practice which... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Hosea 3:1-5

1; Hosea 2:1-23; Hosea 3:1-5THE SIN AGAINST LOVEHosea 1:1-11; Hosea 2:1-23; Hosea 3:1-5; Hosea 4:11 ff.; Hosea 9:10 ff.; Hosea 11:8 f.The Love of God is a terrible thing-that is the last lesson of the Book of Hosea. "My God will cast them away." {Hosea 10:1-15}"My God"-let us remember the right which Hosea had to use these words. Of all the prophets he was the first to break into the full aspect of the Divine Mercy to learn and to proclaim that God is Love. But he was worthy to do so, by the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Hosea 3:1-5

CHAPTER 3 Israel’s Past, Present, and Future 1. The past (Hosea 3:1-3 ) 2. The present (Hosea 3:4 ) 3. The future (Hosea 3:5 ) Hosea 3:1-3 . The command here is not that the Prophet should enter into relation with another woman, but it concerns the same Gomer, the unfaithful wife. It seems she left the prophet and lived in adultery with another man. “And Jehovah said unto me, Go again, love a wife, who is beloved of her friend and who is an adulteress; just as Jehovah loves the children... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Hosea 3:4

3:4 For the children of Israel shall {e} abide many days without a king, and without a {f} prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and [without] teraphim:(e) Meaning not only all the time of their captivity, but also until Christ.(f) That is, they would neither have administration nor religion, and their idols also in which they put their confidence, would be destroyed. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Hosea 3:1-5

THE SWEEP OF THE BOOK It will be seen by the opening verse of this lesson that we are back in the land of Israel before the Babylonian captivity. Examine 2 Kings 14-20 and the corresponding chapters in 2 Chronicles for the history of this period, and the more carefully you read those chapters the more interested you will be in Hosea, and the more you will get out of it. While four of the kings named in Hosea 1:1 reigned in Judah, and only the last-named, Jeroboam, in Israel,... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Hosea 3:4-5

I beg the Reader to pause over these verses, and when he hath duly pondered their meaning, to consider at this moment the state of the Jews, and behold, how for ages and generations past, the prediction in the former part hath been fulfilled in the earth. At the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus, they publicly declared, that they had no king but Cesar; thereby fulfilling the memorable prophecy of the Patriarch Jacob, that the sceptre should not depart from Judah, nor a law-giver from between his... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Hosea 3:4

Altar. Hebrew, "statue;" matseba instead of mozbe, as (Haydock) others agree with St. Jerome, and there seems to have been no variation in his time. --- Theraphim. Images or representations, (Challoner) either good or bad. As the other things mentioned were good, such lawful images as were used in the temple must be meant, 3 Kings vii. 36. (Worthington) --- St. Jerome explains it of cherubim. Septuagint, "altar, priesthood, and manifestations ( Urim, &c.) being wanting." (Haydock) ---... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 3:4-5

4-5 Here is the application of the parable to Israel. They must long sit like a widow, stripped of all joys and honours; but shall at length be received again. Those that would seek the Lord so as to find him, must apply to Christ, and become his willing people. Not only are we to fear the Lord and his greatness, but the Lord and his goodness; not only his majesty, but his mercy. Even Jewish writers apply this passage to the promised Messiah; doubtless it foretold their future conversion to... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Hosea 3:1-5

The New Marriage of the Adulteress. In a second symbolical marriage the faithful love of God, which for that very reason is also jealous and intends to lead to repentance, is pictured. v. 1. Then said the Lord unto me, Go yet, that is, once more, again, in a second venture, love a woman beloved of her friend, the word being used often for husband, yet an adulteress, one still regarded and surrounded with conjugal love by her lawful husband, though estranged from him on account of her... read more