Verse Hosea 6:3. _THEN SHALL WE KNOW_] We shall have the fullest evidence that we have not believed in vain. If _WE FOLLOW ON TO KNOW THE LORD_] If we _continue_ to be as much in _earnest_ as we _now...
THEN SHALL WE KNOW, IF WE FOLLOW ON TO KNOW THE LORD - Rather, “Then shall we know, shall follow on to know the Lord,” i. e., we shall not only know Him, but we shall grow continually in that knowledg...
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...
TO KNOW, &C. See note on Hosea 2:20. Compare Hosea 4:1. HIS GOING FORTH. Compare 2 Samuel 23:4.Micah 5:2. Joh 16:28. PREPARED. sure, or
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...
_Then shall we know_, &c. But as this construction is resumptive of Hosea 6:1, we had better translate, YEA, LET US KNOW, LET US BE ZEALOUS TO KNOW, JEHOVAH, i.e., to know him as our master, protector...
_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...
_RIGHTEOUSNESS MUST BE CONTINUAL HOSEA 6:3-4:_ God caused both Israel (Ephraim) and Judah to think of their sad spiritual condition by asking “O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall...
DISCOURSE: 1154 THE EFFECTS OF DILIGENCE IN RELIGION Hosea 6:3. _Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rai...
THEN SHALL WE KNOW, IF, &C.— _Let us meet together, therefore, and studiously inquire after the knowledge of the Lord._ Houbigant. The captives of Babylon promise themselves that the Lord will come to...
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...
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. THEN SHALL WE...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
Third. In a short time the Lord will easily set us free. But the prophet refers more directly to the resurrection of the faithful, and of Christ, Ephesians ii. 5., and 1 Corinthians xv. 4. (Calmet) --...
I beg the Reader at the very entrance upon this verse, to observe with me, that the little word if is in Italics; consequently hath no right to be there, and certainly ought not to be there, if the se...
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...
_‘FOLLOWING ON’_ ‘Then shall we know, if we follow on to Know the Lord.’ Hosea 6:3 What is the great aim and destiny of my being? Why was I ever born? Why am I preserved to this day? Why am I redee...
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...
In this verse the faithful pursue what we have before considered, making the hope of salvation sure to themselves: nor is it a matter of wonder that the Prophet dwells more fully on this subject; for...
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...
THEN SHALL WE KNOW, [IF] WE FOLLOW ON TO KNOW THE LORD,.... The word "if" is not in the original text, and the passage is not conditional, but absolute; for as persons, when converted, know Christ, an...
Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain unto the earth. Ver. 3. _The...
_Then shall we know, if we follow on_, &c. Hebrew, ונדעה נדדפה לדעת, _And we shall know, we shall follow on to know the Lord._ Then, when we have returned unto the Lord, Hosea 6:1, in sincerity and tr...
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord, or, "Therefore let us understand, follow after the knowledge of Jehovah!" for such pursuit, on the basis of true faith, was bound to have results....
AN EARNEST INVITATION AND A FURTHER ADMONITION. Having stated his threat in a most uncompromising form, the prophet adds a powerful appeal to the people of his nation to heed the warning of the Lord...
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...
THEN; after that God hath revived and raised his repenting and inquiring captives, brought them to his temple and city, restored his worship and his law amongst them (all which are figures of more glo...
Hosea 6:3 know H3045 (H8799) pursue H7291 (H8799) knowledge H3045 (H8800) LORD H3068 forth H4161 established...
‘And let us know, let us follow on to know YHWH. His going forth is sure as the morning, and he will come to us as the rain, as the latter rain that waters the earth.' The second appeal is that they m...
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 6:3 The infatuation of knowledge is the curse of life; the desire to know unsettles life. We honour the knower, the man who has eaten most of the sad fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and e...
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...
_Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord._ FOLLOW ON In the context, the deliverance of God’s Church out of her troubles is foretold. In the same words our salvation in Christ is figure...
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...
2 Peter 1:19; 2 Samuel 23:4; Acts 17:11; Deuteronomy 32:2; Ezekiel
Know — What worship he requires. And the knowledge of God shall be to us a spring of all holy, righteous, sober conversation. Follow on — By a diligent attendance to the word, and works of God, we sha...