Hosea 1:6-8 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 1:6

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

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 1:7

But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah - I will spare them as a kingdom after Israel has been carried away into captivity by the Assyrians. And will save them by the Lord their God - Remarkably fulfilled in the supernatural defeat of the army of the Assyrians, see 2 Kings 19:35 ; and so they were saved not by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, nor by horses, nor by horsemen. The former expression may mean, not in war by horses, i.e., yoked to war chariots, nor by horsemen - nor... 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

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 1:7

Verse 7 This verse sufficiently proves what I said yesterday, that the Prophet was specifically appointed to the kingdom of Israel; for he seems here to speak favourably of the Jews, who yet, we know, had been severely and deservedly reproved by their own teachers. For what does Isaiah say, after having spoken of the dreadful corruptions which then prevailed in the kingdom of Israel? ‘Come,’ he says, ‘into the house of Judah, they at least continue as yet pure: there,’ he says, ‘all the tables... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 1:8

Verse 8 The weaning the Prophet mentions here is by some understood allegorically; as though he said, that the people would for a time be deprived of prophecies, and of the priesthood, and of other spiritual gifts: but this is frigid. The Prophet here, I have no doubt, sets forth the patience of God towards that people. The Lord then, before he had utterly cast away the Israelites, waited patiently for their repentance, if, indeed, there was any hope for it; but when he found them to be ever... 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 1:6

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

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 1:7

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 1:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 1:8

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