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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hosea 6:2-3

(2, 3) Render, So that we shall live in his presence, and shall know and strive after the knowledge of Jehovah, whose coming forth is sure, like the dawn (another play on 6:15, “I will return to my place, &c.”), so that he may come as the plentiful (dashing) rain for us, as the latter rain (needed for the ripening corn) which watereth the earth. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Hosea 6:1-11

Hosea 6:4 My text is the sad Divine comment upon the apparently genuine repentance and quick return to God expressed in previous verses. But God sees how flimsy and hollow that repentance is. I. It is a strange and awful fact that men can thwart God. The words of the text express perplexity, and it would seem as if we must accept them as implying the failure of every weapon He has. It is a mystery, but it is no less a certainty. But it is not owing to deficiency in his appliances. II. The most... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Hosea 6:1-11

elete_me Hosea 6:1-113. REPENTANCE FALLSHosea 5:15 - Hosea 7:2Seeing that their leaders are so helpless, and feeling their wounds, the people may themselves turn to God for healing, but that will be with a repentance so shallow as also to be futile. They have no conviction of sin, nor appreciation of how deeply their evils have eaten.This too facile repentance is expressed in a prayer which the Christian Church has paraphrased into one of its most beautiful hymns of conversion. Yet the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Hosea 6:1-3

CHAPTER 5:1-6:3 The Message to the Priests, the People, and the Royal House Judgment, Affliction and the Future Return 1. The message of rebuke (Hosea 5:1-7 ) 2. The judgment announced (Hosea 5:8-15 ) 3. The future return and the blessing (Hosea 6:1-3 ) Hosea 5:1-7 . The first verse shows who is addressed: the priests, the house of Israel and the house of the King. Judgment was in store for them, for Mizpah and Tabor, the places of hallowed memory, had been turned by their idolatrous... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Hosea 6:2

6:2 After two days will {b} he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.(b) Though he correct us from time to time, yet his help will not be far off, if we return to him. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Hosea 6:1-11

JEHOVAH ’S LOVE FOR ISRAEL With Hosea begins the “Minor” prophets, extending to the close of the Old Testament, and so-called to distinguish them from the “Major,” the first four already considered. The major are the more important not as to their contents but their size; and yet the minor prophets are, in principle, only repeating what the major prophets have recorded over and over again. For this reason the minor prophets will be considered briefly. It may be repeated that we are not... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Hosea 6:1-11

Healing and Binding Hosea 6:1-3 . Man never uttered these words. They seem as if they had originated in the hearts of the sinners whose sin has been portrayed with unutterable blackness. If we suppose that the prodigals invented this desire and this prayer, we are mistaken. God first teaches the prayer, and then answers it. The proof that prayer is divinely answered is that prayer is divinely taught. Lord, teach us how to pray! God will not disappoint himself; the Lord will not mock his own... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Hosea 6:2

Here is an abundance of most blessed things contained in this verse. Certainly the Prophet had an eye to Christ in his resurrection, as the first fruits of them that sleep. He had an eye also to the spiritual resurrection of every sinner that is made to hear the voice of the Son of God and live. John 5:25 . And no doubt there is an eye also to the future resurrection of the body, from the same cause, and by the same power. Revelation 20:6 . Some have thought that there is a particular reference... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Hosea 6:2

Cure us. God is always ready to receive penitents. (Worthington) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 6:1-3

1-3 Those who have gone from God by consent, and in a body, drawing one another to sin, should, by consent and in a body, return to him, which will be for his glory, and their good. It will be of great use for support under afflictions, and to encourage our repentance, to keep up good thoughts of God, and of his purposes and designs concerning us. Deliverance out of trouble should be to them as life from the dead. God will revive them: the assurance of this should engage them to return to him.... read more