Hosea 1:4-11, Hosea 2:1-17 NIV

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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 1:8-11

We have here a prediction, I. Of the rejection of Israel for a time, which is signified by the name of another child that Hosea had by his adulterous spouse, Hos. 1:8, 9. And still we must observe that those children whose names carried these direful omens in them to Israel were all children of whoredoms (Hos. 1:2), all born of the harlot that Hosea married, to intimate that the ruin of Israel was the natural product of the sin of Israel. If they had not first revolted from God, they would... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 1:4

And the Lord said unto him call his name Jezreel ,.... Which some interpret the "seed of God", as Jerom; or "arm of God", as others; and Kimchi applies it to Jeroboam the son of Joash, who was strong, and prospered in his kingdom; but it rather signifies "God will sow", or "scatter" F14 A rad. זרע "seminavit, disseminavit", Schmidt. ; denoting either their dissension among themselves; or their dispersion among the nations, which afterwards came to pass; and so the Targum, "call their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 1:5

And it shall come to pass at that day ,.... When the Lord shall take vengeance on the family of Jehu, and deprive them of the kingdom of Israel, and shall punish the idolatrous kings that succeed: that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel ; of which valley see Joshua 17:16 . It is now called the plain of Esdraelon; as it is in the Apocrypha: "And to those among the nations that were of Carmel, and Galaad, and the higher Galilee, and the great plain of Esdrelom,'... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 1:7

But I will have mercy on the house of Judah ,.... The two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, which retained the true worship of God among them; see Hosea 11:12 and though they often sinned against the Lord, he showed them mercy, and spared them longer than the ten tribes; and though he suffered them to be carried captive into Babylon, he returned them again after seventy years: this is mentioned as an aggravation of the punishment of Israel, that Judah was spared, when they were not; and to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 1:8

Now when she had weaned Loruhamah ,.... That is, when Gomer had weaned her daughter of this name, Hosea 1:6 . This some interpret of the people of Israel being deprived of the word and ordinances, compared to milk and breasts, having a famine of them; and so were like children weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts; though others think this is expressive of the patience of God in bearing with this people, after he had before threatened them with the subversion of their kingdom... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 1:9

Then said God, call his name Loammi ,.... Which Aben Ezra interprets of the children of the ten tribes horn in captivity, who never returned; but it rather signifies the ten tribes themselves, who were carried captive and had this name given them for the reason following: for ye are not my people ; though he had chosen them to be his people above all people, and had distinguished them from others by various blessings and privileges; yet they did not behave as such to him; they did not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered ,.... Though called Loammi, and rejected from being the people of God; yet there is a time when their number, according to the promise made to Abraham, shall be as the sand of the sea, and the stars of heaven; which, as the one cannot be measured, the other cannot be numbered; which was to be not at the return of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, when some of the ten tribes... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 1:11

Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together ,.... Not at the return from the Babylonish captivity; for, though some of the ten tribes might be mixed with the Jews when they went into captivity, and came out with them, and others might join them from the various nations where they had been dispersed; yet they did not gather together with them in a body, only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, those were the chief; of the children of Israel, but few, Ezra... read more

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 1:8-11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 1:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 1:5

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 1:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 1:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 1:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 1:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 1:11

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