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Hosea 1
HOSEA was the first of all the writing prophets, somewhat before
Isaiah. And he is the most obscure of all, which arises from his
concise and sententious style, peculiar to himself. He continued
very long a prophet; the Jews say, he prophesied near fourscore
and ten years. So that he foretold the destruction of the ten tribes,
when it was at a great distance; and lived himself to see and
lament it. The scope of his prophecy is, to reprove sin, and
denounce judgments against a people that would not be reformed.
Many passages in the prophecies of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, seem to
be borrowed from it.
The general title of the book, ver. 1. He is to convince them of
their whoreing against God, by marrying a wife of whoredoms,
ver. 2, 3. He is to foretell their ruin, by the names of his sons, ver.
4-9. He intimates, that God still had mercy in store for them, ver.
10, 11.
Verse 2. Go take - This was, probably, done in vision, and was to be told
to the people, as other visions were: it was parabolically proposed
to them, and might have been sufficient to convince the Jews,
would they have considered it, as David considered Nathan's
parable. A wife of whoredoms and children - Receive and
maintain the children she had before.
Verse 4. The blood - The slaughters made by Jehu's hand or by his
order, in Jezreel. The house of Jehu - Which had now possessed
the throne, through the reigns of Jehoahaz, Jehoash, and
Jeroboam; but the usurper, and his successors adhering to the
idolatry of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and adding other sins to it,
had now provoked God to declare a sudden extirpation of the
family: all this came to pass when Shallum conspiring against
Zechariah, slew him, 2 Kings xv, 8-10. The kingdom - After one
and forty years tottering it fell to utter ruin and hath so continued
to this day.
Verse 5. At that day - When my vengeance hath overtaken the house of
Jehu. Break - Weaken and by degrees quite break. The bow - All
their warlike provision, power and skill. Jezreel - In this valley it
is probable the bloodiest battles in the civil wars were fought; the
reason whereof might be, because whoever carried the victory in
this place, were soon masters of Samaria and Jezreel, and
consequently of the kingdom.
Verse 6. Lo-ruhamah - Not pitied. Israel's name had been through many
ages Ruhamah, that is, pitied. God had pitied them, and saved
them from their enemies. But now Israel should be no more pitied,
God would throw them up to the rage of usurpers, and
conspirators.
Verse 7. Save them - I will preserve them, that violence do not swallow
them up, nor length of captivity wear them out; and this preserved
remnant shall return and be planted in their own land, and there
kept in safety. By the Lord - Particularly in that extraordinary
deliverance of Hezekiah and Jerusalem, from Sennacherib.
Verse 9. Loammi - That is, not my people. Tho' once you were a
peculiar people, you are so no more; you are cast off as you
deserved. I will not be your God - I will be a God to you, no more
than to any of the Heathen nations. This God executed when he
gave them up into the hands of Salmaneser, who sent them where
none now can find them.
Verse 10. The children of Israel - Not Israel after the flesh, not those
very families that are carried captive. In the place - In those
places, were a people dwelt who were not his people, there shall
be a people of God. The living God - Who is the fountain of life
to all his children, and who enables them to offer living sacrifices
to the living God.
Verse 11. Then - This verse has both an historical and a spiritual sense;
the one referring to the return out of Babylon, the other to a more
glorious deliverance from a more miserable captivity. Judah - The
two tribes, who adhered to the house of David. Israel - Some of
the ten tribes who were incorporated with the kingdom of Judah,
and so carried captive with them. But this is spiritually to be
understood of the whole Israel of God. One head - Zerubbabel,
who was appointed by Cyrus, yet with full approbation of the
people. And so Christ is appointed by the Father, head of his
church, whom believers heartily accept. Come up - Literally out
of Babylon, spiritually out of captivity to sin and to Satan. Great -
Good, joyous and comfortable. Of Jezreel - Israel is here called
Jezreel, the seed of God. This seed is now sown in the earth, and
buried under the clods; but great shall be its day, when the harvest
comes. Great was the day of the church, when there were daily
added to it such as should be saved.
Chapter 1:
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