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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Daniel Joel
Hosea 2
The prophet charges the people with their idolatry, and
threatens them with the judgments of God, ver. 1-13. Promises of
mercy, ver. 14-23.
Verse 1. Ye - Who of no people are made a people, who were once
unpitied, but now have obtained mercy. Your brethren - To those
of the ten tribes, who are your brethren. Ammi - Let them know
that yet they are the people of God, they are still within the
covenant of their father Abraham, if they will as their father, walk
with God, all shall be well.
Verse 2. Your mother - The whole body of the people Israel, which were
typified in Gomer. Plead - Ye that are sons and daughters of God
amidst this idolatrous nation. Not my wife - For by her adulteries
she hath dissolved the marriage-covenant.
Verse 3. Strip her - As was usually done by incensed husbands,
divorcing impudent adulteresses. As a wilderness - Barren and
desolate.
Verse 5. That give me - Whereas every mercy she enjoyed was God's
gift, a fruit of his covenant, love and faithfulness towards her; yet
she denies all his kindness, and ascribes to her idols, the bread she
ate, the water she drank, and the clothes she wore.
Verse 6. Hedge up - I will compass thee in with wars, and calamities,
that tho' thou love thy sinful courses, thou shalt have little
pleasure in them. Make a wall - Yea, I will make the calamities of
this people as a strong wall, which they cannot break. Her paths -
Wherein thou didst go when thou wentest to Egypt, or Syria for
help; but by my judgments, and thine enemies power, thou shalt
be so guarded, thou shalt not find how to send to them for relief.
Verse 7. Her lovers - Idols and idolaters. Overtake them - But shall
never overtake their desired help. To my first husband - God who
had married Israel to himself.
Verse 8. Did not know - Did not consider. They - The body of the Jews.
Prepared - Dedicated to the service of the idol.
Verse 9. Take away - I will resume all I gave. In the time thereof - When
they should gather it in, as being ripe.
Verse 10. Her lewdness - Folly and wickedness.
Verse 11. Her feast days - Though apostate, Israel was fallen to idolatry,
yet they retained many of the Mosaic rites and ceremonies. Her
solemn feasts - The three annual feasts of tabernacles, weeks, and
passover, all which ceased when they were carried captive, by
Salmaneser.
Verse 12. My rewards - They gave the praise of all their abundance to
idols. Them - Their vine-yards and olive-yards, and the places
where they planted their fig-trees, and other fruit-trees.
Verse 13. Visit - Punish. The days - The sins of those days. Of Baalim -
Baal was the great idol of the ten tribes; here it is plural Baalim, to
denote the multitude of idols which they worshipped, all called by
this one name. Decked herself - To put the greater honour on the
idol.
Verse 14. I will allure - I will incline her mind to consider what I
propose. Into the wilderness - Deep distress.
Verse 15. Her vineyards - Many blessings. From thence - From the time
of their repentance. Valley of Achor - Which was a large, fruitful
and pleasant valley near Jericho, on the very entrance into the
land of Canaan. A door of hope - That valley was a door of hope
to Israel of old. And such a door will God give to repenting Israel.
As in the days of her youth - When I espoused her.
Verse 16. Thou shalt call - Both by words, affections, and obedience,
shall own me as thy husband, and delight to call me so. Baali -
That is, my Lord.
Verse 17. For - I will abolish the memory of Baalim. Baalim - This great
idol for all others. And they - These false gods. By their name -
Their names perishing with them.
Verse 18. For them - The Israel of God. With the beasts - With all the
creatures that might either serve or hurt them. It is a full and
gracious promise of abundance of peace, safety, and love, through
the creation. Safely - This was in some measure made good to the
Jews returning out of captivity. But the full accomplishment will
be to the church of Christ.
Verse 21. In that day - In the day of gospel-grace. I will hear - God the
first and universal cause will influence the heavens, he will
command their dew, and showers. When the earth is dry, it does
as it were, cry to the heavens for refreshing showers, when the
seed sown, the vines and olives planted, are at a stand, they cry to
the earth for its kindly influences, that they may spring up, and
yield fruit for Jezreel, which may call, and cry, but never will be
satisfied if God does not hear them, and command his blessing
which he promises to his people on renewing covenant with them.
Now their repentance shall be blest with plenty, and God will set
the frame of heaven and earth in due order to effect this; there
shall be an harmony, between all subordinate causes moved by
God the first great cause, whence expected events and fruits shall
be produced for their good and comfort.
Verse 23. I will sow - I will bless them with a wonderful increase of
people, exprest with allusion to seed sown in the earth. So the
Jews multiplied after the Babylonish captivity, but much more are
the numbers increased since the preaching of the gospel.
Chapter 2:
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| Matthew Henry
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Daniel Joel
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