Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 2:14
I will allure — I will incline her mind to consider what I propose. Into the wilderness — Deep distress.
I will allure — I will incline her mind to consider what I propose. Into the wilderness — Deep distress.
Verse Hosea 2:14. _I WILL ALLURE HER, AND BRING HER INTO THE WILDERNESS,_ _AND SPEAK COMFORTABLY UNTO HER._] After inflicting many judgments upon her, I will restore her again. I will deal with her a...
THEREFORE - The inference is not what we should have expected. Sin and forgetfulness of God are not the natural causes of, and inducements to mercy. But God deals not with us, as we act one to another...
CHAPTER 2 Appeal and Punishment for Unfaithfulness The Resumed Relationship _ 1. The appeal and complaint (Hosea 2:1) _ 2. The punishment for Unfaithfulness (Hosea 2:6) 3. The resumed relationship...
HOSEA 2:2 (Hebrews 2:4). In this discourse, which seems to be based upon and imply the narrative in Hosea 1, 3, the prophet sets forth the unfaithfulness of the people and land of Israel to her Divine...
THEREFORE. Nevertheless. Note that the whole of this present dispensation comes between Hosea 2:13 and Hosea 2:14. See App-72. I. I myself (emphatic). BRING HER, &C. Compare Ezekiel 20:35. comfortab...
_Therefore_ i.e. because, without Jehovah's help, Israel will never come to herself, and reform (comp. Isaiah 30:18). Her punishment has an educational object; the threat has a tinge of promise. _I wi...
And now the notes of threatening are dying away; bright and glorious days are announced for both sections of the nation. There shall be a second Exodus; no more idolatry; no more war; no. cloud upon I...
_TROUBLE BROUGHT HOPE TO ISRAEL -- HOSEA 2:14-17:_ This begins the beautiful picture of God alluring His people back. As a wronged husband that was willing to forgive his unfaithful wife God would rec...
DISCOURSE: 1143 GOD’S DEALINGS WITH PENITENTS Hosea 2:14. _Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her: and I will give her her vineyards f...
THEREFORE BEHOLD, I WILL ALLURE HER— _Nevertheless, I will allure her, after I have brought her into the wilderness,_ [_to Babylon_], &c. "After having treated her with rigour, and having convinced he...
LOVE RECONCILINGISRAEL IS LURED TEXT: Hosea 2:14-15 14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. 15 And I will give her her vineyards...
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. THEREFORE - rather, Nevertheless (Henderson). The English version gives a more lovely idea o...
2:14 heart. (e-17) See Isaiah 40:2 . &c....
THE DISCIPLINE AND RESTORATION OF FAITHLESS ISRAEL The unfaithful conduct of Gomer and the prophet's gentle treatment of her are regarded as an analogue of the nation's faithlessness and God's gentle...
THEREFORE, etc.] 'This being her miserable condition, I will entice her to repent by gentle discipline.' The key to such expressions lies in the tenderness felt by Hosea for his sinning wife (see Intr...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 2 V1 Then you will tell your brothers, ‘You are my people’. And you will tell your sisters, ‘He has shown *mercy to you’. In cha...
THEREFORE. — This word does not make God’s gentle treatment a consequence of the sin of Israel. Some prefer to render by _nevertheless,_ but the Hebrew word _lakhçn_ is sometimes used in making strong...
_[Hosea 2:16]_ לָכֵ֗ן הִנֵּ֤ה אָֽנֹכִי֙ מְפַתֶּ֔יהָ וְ...
Hosea 2:1; Hosea 3:1 THE SIN AGAINST LOVE Hosea 1:1; Hosea 2:1; Hosea 3:1;
“A DOOR OF HOPE” Hosea 2:14-23; Hosea 3:1-5 The valley of Achor was a long wild pass up through the hills. The prophet says that a door of hope would open there, like the Mont Cenis tunnel which lead...
No details of the unfaithfulness of Gomer are given, but in the second movement the prophet is seen nursing his own agony, and by that process learning the true nature of the sin of his people as God...
Therefore, behold, I will (p) allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. (p) By my benefits in offering her grace and mercy, even in that place where she will thin...
I will allure her, &c. After her disloyalties, I will still allure her by my grace, &c., and send her vine-dressers, viz., the apostles, originally her own children, who shall open to her the gates of...
Reader! I beseech you to pause over every verse, and every part and portion of this most blessed Chapter. Was ever grace like thine, thou dear Redeemer? And when the milder methods of thy recovering m...
The prophecy of Hosea naturally divides itself into two principal divisions with minor sections. The first consists of Hosea 1:1-11; Hosea 2:1-23; Hosea 3:1-5; the second, of the rest of the book. Wit...
Unfaithfulness I. INTRODUCTION A. This morning we continue with the love story of Hosea and Gomer. 1. I trust that you remember that the Lord instructed Hosea to love his wife with an unconditional...
Here the Lord more clearly expresses, that after having long, and in various ways, afflicted the people, he would at length be propitious to them; and not only so, but that he would also make all thei...
Chapter 2 introduces some new elements of exceeding interest; and, at the same time, a magnificent revelation of the dealings of God in grace, towards Israel. The opening words of the chapter appear t...
THEREFORE, BEHOLD, I WILL ALLURE HER,.... Since these rough ways will not do, I will take another, a more mild and gentle way; instead of threatening, terrifying, and punishing, I will allure, persuad...
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. Ver. 14. _Therefore, behold, I will allure her_] A strange "therefore." It may very well have...
_Therefore, behold, I will allure her_ As there is a plain alteration of the style here from threatenings to promises, so the first word of this verse should be translated _nevertheless_, or _notwiths...
The Renewal of the Lord's Marriage Contract...
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, deliberately leading the idolatrous Israel astray and visiting His punishment upon her, but with a wonderful object in mind, AND BRING HER INTO THE WILDERNESS, wh...
COMFORTABLY: Or, friendly. _Heb._ to her heart...
14-23 After these judgments the Lord would deal with Israel more gently. By the promise of rest in Christ we are invited to take his yoke upon us; and the work of conversion may be forwarded by comfo...
OLBHeb; THEREFORE: this particle seems to connect these following passages with those that went before, as causal, or giving a reason why God will do thus, and so are difficulter than if read as zkl m...
Hosea 2:14 allure H6601 (H8764) bring H3212 (H8689) wilderness H4057 speak H1696 (H8765) comfort H3820 T
HOPE SHINES THROUGH FROM THE FUTURE BECAUSE ONE DAY YHWH WILL ONCE AGAIN DRAW HIS PEOPLE BACK TO HIMSELF AND WILL RESTORE HER SITUATION. ISRAEL WILL DWELL SECURELY, HAVING BECOME BETROTHED TO YHWH FOR...
“Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak reassuringly (comfortably, lovingly) to her.' The picture now changes sharply to one where YHWH seeks again to woo I...
Hosea 2:14 Our text belongs, we may suppose in a special sense to the Jew. It may in part have been accomplished in his past history, but its thorough fulfilment is to be looked for in the future. Bu...
Hosea 2:14 God's presence in loneliness a sermon for Lent. I. From the first dawning of conversion to the hour of death, it is in solitude mostly that God speaks to the soul. God's will, as Himself,...
You remember that, a fortnight ago, we read the second chapter of the prophecy of Hosea, and I preached from the fourteenth verse. I am going to continue that subject tonight, so we will read two vers...
Hosea 2:6. _Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths._ God will cause sin to be painful; he will make the way of it difficult; he wil...
In this chapter God compares Israel to a woman who had been unfaithful to her husband in the very worst and most wicked manner. Hosea 2:5. _For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived...
CONTENTS: The chastisement of adulterous Israel. Yet to be restored. CHARACTERS: God, Hosea, Ammi, Ruhamah, Baalim. CONCLUSION: Those who exchange the service of God for the service of the world and...
Hosea 2:1. _Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi,_ that is, my people; _and to your sisters, Ruhamah,_ that is, mercy, or oh mercy, or having obtained mercy, or mercy shall follow. Hosea 2:3. _Lest I strip...
_I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably to her._ ALLURE The original word is used of one readily enticed, as a simple one, whether to good or ill. God uses, as it...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 2:14 Hosea describes God’s plan to restore his “marriage” with Israel. ⇐ ⇔...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 2:14. THEREFORE] Nevertheless a promise of conversion (Hosea 2:14); and assurance of renewed covenant (Hosea 2:18). Misery draws mercy. ALLURE] in a friendly sense; decoy by wor...
EXPOSITION HOSEA 2:2 PLEAD WITH YOUR MOTHER, PLEAD: FOR SHE IS NOT THY WIFE, NEITHER AM I HER HUSBAND. In this second chapter the same cycle of events recurs as in the first, with this difference, th...
Say to your brethren (Hsa Hosea 2:1), And here he leaves out the Lo, which is the negative. Say to your brethren, My people; and to your sister, Ruhamah (Hsa Hosea 2:1). Or, "having obtained mercy....
Amos 9:11; Ezekiel 20:10; Ezekiel 20:35; Ezekiel 20:36; Ezekiel