Hosea 1:6

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 1:2-7

These words, The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea, may refer either, 1. To that glorious set of prophets which was raised up about this time. About this time there lived and prophesied Joel, Amos, Micah, Jonah, Obadiah, and Isaiah; but Hosea was the first of them that foretold the destruction of Israel; the beginning of this word of the Lord was by him. We read in the history of this Jeroboam here named (2 Kgs. 14:27) that the Lord had not yet said he would blot out the name of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 1:6

And she conceived again, and bare a daughter ,.... One of the weaker sex; denoting the weaker state of the kingdom of Israel after Jeroboam, as Kimchi thinks; Zachariah his son reigning but six months, and Shallum the son of Jabesh, his successor, reigned but one month, 2 Kings 15:8 , and God said unto him, call her name Loruhamah ; which signifies, "she hath not obtained mercy": and what follows explains it to the same sense. The Targum is, "and they added and did evil works; and he... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 1:6

Call her Lo-ruhamah - רהמה לא , "Not having obtained mercy." This also was a prophetic or typical name; and the reason of its imposition is immediately given: For I will no more have mercy - ארחם עיד אושיף לא כי ki lo osiph od arachem , "For I will no more add to have mercy upon the house of Israel." This refers to the total destruction of that kingdom. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 1:6

Verse 6 The Prophet shows in this verse that things were become worse and worse in the kingdom of Israel, that they sinned, keeping within no limits, that they rushed headlong into the extremes of impiety. He has already told us, by calling them Jezreelites, that they were from the beginning rejected and degenerate; as though he said, “Your origin has nothing commendable in it; ye think yourselves to be very eminent, because ye derive your descent from holy Jacob; but ye are spurious children,... 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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 1:4-9

The sufferings of Israel symbolically recorded. The three children of the prophet by Gomer symbolize at once a degree of sin and a period of suffering. The forefathers of Israel had been idolaters in their native laud and in Egypt, as we learn from the admonition of Joshua ( Joshua 24:14 ), "Put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt." But God took them into covenant with himself at Sinai; this new relation may be represented by the prophet's... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 1:6

And she conceived again, and bare a daughter . And God said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah. The first birth symbolized the blood-guiltiness and idolatry of Israel, and the consequent destruction. Two other births follow to confirm the certainty of the coming calamity, to develop it further, and exhibit the nation ever which it impended under new phases, as also to show the prospect of deliverance to be hopeless. The change of sex may indicate the totality of the nation, male and female,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 1:6

Mercy denied. The iniquity of Israel surpassed that of the sister kingdom of Judah. Hence the awful message of the Lord to the former, contrasting with the declaration of favor made towards the latter. There is perhaps nothing more terrible in the whole of revelation than the name symbolically given to the daughter of Hosea, regarded as representing the idolatrous and rebellions nation of Israel—the Unpitied! I. THERE IS A WITNESS TO THE ENORMITY OF HUMAN SIN . Men... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 1:6-7

God's mercy. "For I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away. But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen." This passage leads us to con template God's mercy. Mercy is a modification of goodness. God is good to all, but is only merciful to the suffering sinner. Mercy not only implies suffering, but suffering arising... read more

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