Hosea 2:5-13

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hosea 2:10

will I discover. Compare Ezekiel 16:37 ; Ezekiel 23:29 . read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hosea 2:11

her feast days. All these are in the sing, here = her feast, her new moon, her sabbath, her every appointed season. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hosea 2:12

destroy = lay waste. Compare Psalms 105:33 . whereof. In Hosea 2:5 . rewards = my hire, or fee. A technical term. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 23:18 ). App-92 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hosea 2:13

I will visit, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 32:34 ). App-92 . the days: i.e. the feast days. Baalim. (Plural) including Baal-gad, Baal-Hermon, Baal-zephon, Baalberith, &c. decked herself. Compare Ezekiel 23:40 , Ezekiel 23:42 . saith the LORD = [is] Jehovah's oracle. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hosea 2:5

"For their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink."The trouble indicated here was accurately pinpointed by Harper: "They have corrupted God's worship with so much that pertains to the cultus of the Baalim, that they might as well be worshipping the latter."[21]"I will go after my lovers ..." Here again is the undeniable appearance of the... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hosea 2:6

"Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths."Here is the first of a triple strategy God will use in order to restrain, punish, and allure the harlot (Hosea 2:6,9,14) with the purpose of bringing her back to himself. There is a distinct shift of the meaning throughout these verses. As Halley (and many others) have pointed out, "Some of this language applies to Hosea's family, some to the nation, some to both, the... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hosea 2:7

"And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.""Shall seek them, but shall not find them ..." The seeking of any effective "god" through the devices of idolatry was a futile quest indeed. "She would seek after the Baalim but would not be able to find them, for a nonentity cannot be found."[29]"I will go and return to... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hosea 2:8

"For she did not know that I gave her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied unto her silver and gold, which they used for Baal."These verses are primarily concerned with the sufferings and sorrows which will fall upon the people because of their turning away from God; but it is not merely the punishment of the whore which surfaces here; there are pointed citations of her guilt, also. Her self-induced ignorance and her brazen misuse of God's blessings are two such citations in... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hosea 2:9

"Therefore will I take back my grain in the time thereof, and my new wine in the season thereof, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness."It is no accident that the nations worshipping idols have always exhibited poverty and wretchedness exceeding all other instances of it; and the overpowering thought of this verse is that the false worship is related to it as cause and effect. God's will denies to paganism the prosperity that has been consistently... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hosea 2:10

"And now will I uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand."Part of the punishment of a harlot in some of the Mid-East countries involved their being stripped and driven away naked, as indicated in Hosea 2:3, above. This verse is merely a reiteration of the disastrous punishment inflicted upon Israel. One may well wonder if a thing like this actually happened to Gomer; but if it did, the prophet mercifully covered it. However, there would be no... read more

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