Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Hosea 6:2
After two days will He revive us, the early and certain return of His love being promised to a repentant people; in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight. Cf Deuteronomy 32:39.
After two days will He revive us, the early and certain return of His love being promised to a repentant people; in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight. Cf Deuteronomy 32:39.
Verse Hosea 6:2. _AFTER TWO DAYS WILL HE REVIVE_] Such is his power that in _two_ or _three_ days he can restore us. He can realize all our hopes, and give us the strongest token for good. _IN THE T...
AFTER TWO DAYS WILL HE REVIVE US (OR QUICKEN US, GIVE US LIFE,) IN THE THIRD DAY HE WILL RAISE US UP - The Resurrection of Christ, and our resurrection in Him and in His Resurrection, could not be mor...
CHAPTER 5:1-6:3 The Message to the Priests, the People, and the Royal House Judgment, Affliction and the Future Return _ 1. The message of rebuke (Hosea 5:1) _ 2. The judgment announced (Hosea 5:...
HOSEA 5:15 TO HOSEA 6:3. ISRAEL'S CONFESSION AND PENITENCE. Yahweh, speaking in His own person, declares that He will return to His place (_i.e._ to heaven; _cf._ Micah 1:3), there to await Israel's p...
AFTER TWO DAYS: i. e. two days after this national repentance. See Hosea 5:15, "till". REVIVE US. bring us back to life. IN. on. LIVE. live again in resurrection. Referring to the yet future resurre...
The prophet enters into the feelings of the only too quickly repentant Israelites, and imagines them encouraging each other to return to Jehovah. These three verses are closely connected with the end...
This verse contains the germ of the striking allegory of the dry bones (Ezekiel 37:1-10), and reminds us also of the prediction of an Israelitish resurrection in Isaiah 26:19. The idea is that, contra...
_RETURN TO THE LORD AND LIVE HOSEA 6:1-3:_ In much the same way as Hosea had appeal to his own unfaithful wife to return to him the prophet now pleaded with Israel to return to God. “Come, and let us...
AFTER TWO DAYS, &C.— In the style of Scripture, captivity, oppression, servitude, are frequently represented under the name of death; and a deliverance from these evils is called a _resurrection,_—a _...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDEHER INCONSTANCY TEXT: Hosea 6:1-11 1 Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days wil...
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. AFTER TWO DAYS WILL HE REVIVE US: IN THE THIRD DAY HE WILL RAISE US UP, AND WE SHALL LIVE IN...
THE SHALLOWNESS OF ISRAEL'S REPENTANCE Hosea now represents the people as counselling one another to repentance in presence of the impending danger; and goes on to point out the futility of a hurried...
AFTER TWO DAYS] This is probably a proverbial expression for a very short time. 3. THEN.. KNOW, etc.] RV 'And let us know, let us follow on.' HIS GOING FORTH] Just as the morning will dawn after the d...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 6 THE PEOPLE ARE NOT TRUE TO GOD V1 ‘Come, let us return to the *Lord. He has torn us to pieces, but he will bring us health....
The haste of the seeming penitents for the fulfilment of their hope. They expect the rapid restoration of the national prosperity, prompted by the abundance of the Divine love, and His response to the...
Render, _So that we shall live in his presence, and shall know and strive after the knowledge of Jehovah, whose coming forth is sure, like the dawn_ (another play on 6:15, “I will return to my place,...
יְחַיֵּ֖נוּ מִ יֹּמָ֑יִם בַּ † יֹּום֙ הַ...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
“LET US RETURN UNTO THE LORD” Hosea 6:1-11 How full Scripture is of tender invitations: _Come, and let us return!_ This opening verse is closely connected with Hosea 5:15. The hand that smote was th...
Here we have the prophet's appeal in consequence of the judgment threatened. It was first a message calling the people to return to Jehovah. It was based on the certainty of divine pity; and a promise...
After two days will (b) he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. (b) Though he correct us from time to time, yet his help will not be far off, if we return...
_Cure us. God is always ready to receive penitents. (Worthington)_...
Here is an abundance of most blessed things contained in this verse. Certainly the Prophet had an eye to Christ in his resurrection, as the first fruits of them that sleep. He had an eye also to the s...
The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...
VII. HOSEA 6:1-2 (NASB) "COME, LET US RETURN TO THE LORD. FOR HE HAS TORN [US,] BUT HE WILL HEAL US; HE HAS WOUNDED [US,] BUT HE WILL BANDAGE US. 2 "HE WILL REVIVE US AFTER TWO DAYS; HE WILL RAISE U...
This place the Hebrew writers pervert, for they think that they are yet to be redeemed by the coming of the Messiah; and they imagine that this will be the third day: for God once drew them out of Egy...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7. Chapter 6 calls forth a touching address from the prophet, in which he entreats the people to return to Jehovah. Faith has always this resource, beca...
AFTER TWO DAYS WILL HE REVIVE US: IN THE THIRD DAY HE WILL RAISE US UP,.... The Jews, in their present state, are as dead men, both in a civil and spiritual sense, and their conversion and restoration...
_After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight._ Ver. 2. _After two days will he revive us_] Whereas some of those who were called upon to "Co...
_After two days he will revive us_ A deliverance from miseries or calamities, from which men had despaired of a recovery, is often represented as restoring them to life after death: see Psalms 30:3; P...
1-3 Those who have gone from God by consent, and in a body, drawing one another to sin, should, by consent and in a body, return to him, which will be for his glory, and their good. It will be of gre...
In this verse it is most certain we are to regard both the literal and historical sense, and distinguish it from the mystical and accommodated sense; in this latter, these words foretell the death, an...
Hosea 6:2 days H3117 revive H2421 (H8762) third H7992 day H3117 up H6965 (H8686) live H2421 ...
‘After two days will he revive us, on the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.' The reference to ‘two days' indicates that all will not occur instantly, even after their repenta...
THE EVENTUAL RETURN OF ISRAEL TO YHWH IS DEPICTED IN TERMS OF A RESTORATION TO HEALTH AND RESURRECTION AND THE BLESSING OF RAIN UPON THE EARTH (HOSEA 6:1). The idea of Israel torn by a lion (Hosea 5:1...
Hosea 5:13 ; HOSEA 6:2 So Ephraim and Judah went to the wrong person, and did not gain much by their application. The same fatal error is being perpetrated by multitudes amongst us still. The error i...
CONTENTS: The voice of the remnant of Israel in the last days. Jehovah's response. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The consideration of God's judgments upon us because of sin should awaken us to return...
Hosea 6:2. _After two days will he revive us._ The Chaldaic paraphrase gives a double acceptation to this text, that the Messiah should raise the dead, and that he should also revive and heal the chur...
_After two days will He revive us: in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight._ DEATH THE GATE OF LIFE Let us look, not on the dying side, but on the living side. Each shado...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 6:2 AFTER TWO DAYS HE WILL REVIVE US. Even after the punishment described in v. Hosea 6:1, the Lord can heal his people. on the third day he w
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 6:1.] Contains an appeal addressed by Israelites one to another. Some, as spoken by the prophet to the exiled and smitten people. HOSEA 6:2. TWO DAYS.] A proverbial way of expr...
EXPOSITION HOSEA 6:1 These three verses have, by the division into chapters, been violently and improperly torn from the preceding chapter, to which they naturally belong. Their connection with the f...
And they will say, Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up (Hsa Hosea 6:1). This is the prayer that they will be offerin...
1 Corinthians 15:4; 2 Kings 20:5; Ezekiel 37:11; Genesis 17:18;...
After two days — After some short time of suffering, God will shew us his favour, and revive our dead state. Revive us — Though we were as dead men, buried in our miseries, yet our merciful God will q...