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Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Hosea 1:1-11

SUPERSCRIPTION. Hosea 1:11The word of the Lord that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri,1 in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel.______________PART FIRST. Hosea 1:2 to Hosea 3:5Hosea 1:2 to Hosea 2:3A. The Rejection of the Kingdom of Israel, and especially of the House of Jehu, on account of their “Whoredom,” is symbolically announced.—Hosea 1:2-92 The beginning2 of the Word of the Lord by Hosea. And the... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Hosea 1:1-11

God Gathers the Outcast Hosea 1:1-11 The story of Hosea is a pathetic one. He felt impressed that it was his duty to take as wife one whose earlier life had been unchaste. From this marriage resulted three children, the names of whom are terribly significant. They are as follows:- God will scatter; Not an object of favor ; and Once my people, but not so now . Here is the history of many a soul. In spite of all God’s tender love, we may wander from Him into the path of sin. The chapter... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Hosea 1:1-11

The statement with which this prophecy opens, "When the Lord spake at the first," is a declaration by Hosea long after the events. Looking back, he understood that the impulse which resulted in the heart agony was also part of the divine method of teaching him. There is no reason to believe that Gomer was outwardly impure in the days when Hosea married her. If impurity were in her heart, Hosea did not how it, and it was not apparent during the early days of their married life. In the picture... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 1:2-11

YHWH’S STEADFAST LOVE FOR ISRAEL AND HER UNFAITHFULNESS TO HIM IS EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP WITH AN ASSURANCE THAT ONE DAY THERE WILL BE FULL RESTORATION (Hosea 1:2 to Hosea 3:5 ). There is nothing more poignant than this beautiful picture of God in His love seeing Israel as His wife, even though she has been unfaithful to Him, and determining that once she has learned her lesson He will woo her back to Himself. But the picture comes first as a stark warning to the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 1:4-5

‘And YHWH said to him, “Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom (or kingship) of the house of Israel to cease. And it will come about at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel”.’ Hosea was commanded by YHWH to name his firstborn son ‘Jezreel’. This was to be a sign that in a short while He would avenge the bloodbath of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu (that is would... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 1:6

‘And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And YHWH said to him, “Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.” Years having passed the people would have had time to ponder on the reason why Hosea had named his son ‘Jezreel’, something which had no doubt been made clear by Hosea (it would appear that at this time significant name-giving was a recognised prophetic practise. Compare how Isaiah, a younger contemporary of... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 1:2-9

Hosea 1:2-1 Samuel : . Hosea’ s Marriage: a Parable of Yahweh’ s Relations with Israel.— The prophet receives a Divine command to “ take” ( i.e. marry) “ a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom.” The reason given for this startling procedure is that “ the land” ( i.e. the land of Israel) “ doth commit great whoredom departing from the LORD.” Hosea obeys and takes as his wife Gomer bath Diblaim (? “ daughter of fig-cakes” ), who bears three children to him. These are given symbolical... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hosea 1:4

And the Lord said unto him, Hosea the prophet, who as in taking to wife an adulteress, so in giving name’ to his son by her, was to presignify Israel’s future calamities. Call his name, thy son now born, Jezreel: the word is, The seed of the Lord, or, The arm of the Lord, or, The Lord will scatter; so it may insinuate that God by his own arm will scatter among the people, i.e. the Assyrians, those who were his people or seed. But we have a surer guide to lead us through this, i.e. the history... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hosea 1:5

It shall come to pass; most certainly this shall be effected. At that day; when my vengeance hath overtaken the house of Jehu, when his great-great-grandson shall be slain. I will break; weaken, and by degrees quite break, i.e. by the conspiracies, seditions, and civil wars which will arise among themselves. The bow: this was a warlike weapon they much used and were skilful in; this one weapon put for all their warlike provision, power, and skill; possibly it may allude to the bow of Jehu, who... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hosea 1:6

And she, Gomer, the hieroglyphic wife, who was to be a sign to Israel, conceived again, whether visionary or really it comes to one, and bare a daughter; which is to be a sign too, as was her mother. It is too nice which Ribera observes, that the state grew weaker, as appeared by the bringing forth of one of the weaker sex. This daughter was fit to be an emblem, and therefore it is a daughter rather than a son, though it will be next a son and no daughter. But Lo-ruhamah is feminine, and in... read more

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