Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 2:8
Did not know — Did not consider. They — The body of the Jews. Prepared — Dedicated to the service of the idol.
Did not know — Did not consider. They — The body of the Jews. Prepared — Dedicated to the service of the idol.
Verse Hosea 2:8. _FOR SHE DID NOT KNOW THAT I GAVE HER CORN_] How often are the gifts of God's _immediate bounty_ attributed to fortuitous causes-to any cause but the right one! WHICH _THEY PREPARED...
FOR SHE DID NOT KNOW - The prophet having, in summary Hosea 2:5, related her fall, her chastisement, and her recovery, begins anew, enlarging both on the impending inflictions, and the future mercy. S...
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...
DID NOT KNOW. Compare Isaiah 1:3. THAT I. that [it was]. Who. Compare Ezekiel 16:17. WINE. new wine. Hebrew. _tirosh._ App-27. WHICH THEY, &C.. they made offerings to Baal. Compare Hosea 8:4....
The offended Husband describes the compulsion which he will employ towards his faithless wife....
_For she did not know that I_ Rather, AND SHE (the recipient of such favours) HATH NOT TAKEN NOTICE THAT IT WAS I WHO GAVE HER THE CORN, AND THE NEW WINE, AND THE FRESH OIL. Corn, new wine, and fresh...
_ISRAEL REFUSED TO THANK AND HONOR GOD -- HOSEA 2:6-13:_ God promised that He would make the path of His unfaithful people rough and very hard to take. They had used blessings given them by God to ser...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDESPURIOUS LOVERS TEXT: Hosea 2:6-8 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. 7 And she sha...
For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. FOR SHE DID NOT KNOW THAT I GAVE HER CORN, AND WINE, AND OIL - I; tha...
2:8 Baal. (a-33) Others, 'made into a Baal.'...
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...
THEY PREPARED FOR BAAL] RM 'made into the _image of_ Baal.' How absurd and how insulting to use God's gift in this way!...
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...
Translate in the _present_ tense: _and she knows not that it is I who gave, &c._ This yearning of Jehovah over the results of his chastisements is a wonderful anticipation of Luke 15. CORN, AND WINE.....
_[Hosea 2:10]_ וְ הִיא֙ לֹ֣א יָֽדְעָ֔ה כִּ֤י...
Hosea 2:1; Hosea 3:1 THE SIN AGAINST LOVE Hosea 1:1; Hosea 2:1; Hosea 3:1;
THE BITTER SIN OF WANDERING FROM GOD Hosea 2:1-13 Hosea is represented as having exhausted his expostulations upon his faithless wife. He has tried every arrow in love's quiver, but in vain; so now...
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...
For she did not know that I (k) gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, [which] they prepared for Baal. (k) This declares that idolaters defraud God of his honour, when...
_Baal: or they formed idols._...
These are so many blessed expressions, to show how graciously the Lord is dealing with his people, in the bounties both of providence and grace; while our proud, unhumbled nature, overlooking the Lord...
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...
God here amplifies the ingratitude of the people, that they understood not whence came such abundance of good things. _She understood not_, he says, _that I gave to her corn and wine_. The superstitio...
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...
FOR SHE DID NOT KNOW THAT I GAVE HER CORN, AND WINE, AND OIL,.... This is a reason, not of her resolution to return to her first husband, but to go after lovers, and of her ascribing these things to t...
For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, [which] they prepared for Baal. Ver. 8. _For she did not know_] _i.e._ She would not be known or affe...
_For she did not know_ Or, as Bishop Horsley renders it, _But she would not know, that I gave her corn_, &c. She did not, or would not consider that all the necessaries she enjoyed, as well as her ric...
V. 1. SAY YE UNTO YOUR BRETHREN, AMMI ("My people"); AND TO YOUR SISTERS, RUHAMAH ("having obtained mercy"). The original names of the children were thus changed to indicate their changed relationship...
For she did not know, she did not realize at that time, THAT I GAVE HER CORN AND WINE AND OIL AND MULTIPLIED HER SILVER AND GOLD, giving her all these temporal blessings in rich measure, WHICH THEY PR...
WINE: _ Heb._ new wine WHICH THEY PREPARED FOR BAAL: Or, wherewith they made Baal...
6-13 God threatens what he would do with this treacherous, idolatrous people. They did not turn, therefore all this came upon them; and it is written for admonition to us. If lesser difficulties be g...
FOR; this unexampled ignorance, or inconsiderateness, was the cause of all this lost labour, and unthankfulness to God. SHE, in her rayons and prosperity, as were the days of Jeroboam, in which much o...
Hosea 2:8 know H3045 (H8804) gave H5414 (H8804) grain H1715 wine H8492 oil H3323 multiplied H7235 ...
“Then she will say, “I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now. For she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil,” The r...
JUDGMENT IS TO FALL ON GOD'S REJECTED PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY HAVE FOLLOWED FALSE RELIGION AND FALSE GODS, NOT REALISING WHO IT WAS WHO WAS REALLY THEIR BENEFACTOR. THEY WILL BE EXPOSED AND SHAMED, SOMETH...
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...
_For she did not know._ AGNOSTICISM There is a theory which is known to-day by the difficult name Agnosticism. A great deal of worthless thinking may be hidden under that dark term. The meaning is su...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 2:1 Hosea uses the legal process of an offended husband against his wife as a picture of God’s plans for dealing with Israel’s rebellion. ⇐...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 2:8 SHE DID NOT KNOW. Israel’s failure to “know” the Lord is a key idea in the book (vv. Hosea 2:8;...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 2:8. NOT KNOW] Wilful ignorance and ingratitude, for she was taught by the law and the providence of God. PREPARED] Made and mended images of Baal, and devoted them to the supp...
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....
Acts 17:23; Daniel 5:23; Daniel 5:3; Daniel 5:4; Exodus 32:2;...