played the harlot: i.e. practiced idolatries. The silence as to details here is eloquent.
my lovers. my Baals, or lords. Compare Jeremiah 44:17; Jeremiah 44:18.
my, &c. Note the three pairs, including food, clothing, and luxuries. All are claimed as hers.
Verse Hosea 2:5. _THAT GIVE ME MY BREAD_] See the note on Jeremiah 44:17, where nearly the same words are found and illustrated....
SHE THAT CONCEIVED THEM HATH DONE SHAMEFULLY, LITERALLY, HATH MADE SHAMEFUL - The silence as to “what” she “made shameful” is more emphatic than any words. She “made shameful” everything which she cou...
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...
_I will go after my lovers_ Israel, then, had given up the true Jehovah for -lovers" (i.e. not, as the Targum explains it, and as the phrase often means, especially in Ezekiel, the neighbouring people...
The prophecy begins with a solemn admonition on the faithless conduct of Israel towards her Divine Bridegroom. The _dramatis personæ_are the same as in chap. 1; only, whereas in chap. 1 the husband, w...
_PLEAD WITH YOUR MOTHER TO DO RIGHT-- HOSEA 2:1-5:_ Through the years of the Jewish nation there were always some that were godly people. These righteous ones were to say let your brothers be called ...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDESPIRIT OF HARLOTRY TEXT: Hosea 2:1-5 1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. 2 Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not my wife, neither am I...
For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and m...
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...
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...
FOR THEIR MOTHER HATH PLAYED... — We might render, with Ewald, _yea, their mother hath played_... This would more easily account for the change of person (“your “... “their “), which is, however, very...
_[Hosea 2:7]_ כִּ֤י זָֽנְתָה֙ אִמָּ֔ם הֹבִ֖ישָׁה הֹֽורָתָ֑ם...
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 their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my (g) lovers, that give [me] my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil...
_Lovers: idols, and foreign nations, Ezechiel xvi. 15, 33._...
We have here, if I mistake not, the process of grace, when the Lord is about to work upon the hearts of his people. They are, as Israel is here described, speaking confidently, and with an high hand;...
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...
He afterwards declares how the children became spurious; _their mother, who conceived _or _bare them, has been wanton; with shameful acts has she defiled herself _ בוש _bush, _means, to be ashamed; bu...
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 THEIR MOTHER HATH PLAYED THE HARLOT,.... Or committed idolatry; which is the reason why she is to be pleaded with, and why the Lord will not own her as his wife, or be a husband to her; and why sh...
For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give [me] my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and...
_And I will not have mercy on her children_, &c. As an injured husband has no regard for the children which his wife has had by another man; so neither will I have pity on thy children which are train...
For their mother hath played the harlot, the whole nation, as the various prophets show, being guilty of the same idolatrous behavior; SHE THAT CONCEIVED THEM HATH DONE SHAMEFULLY, openly committing h...
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...
DRINK: _ Heb._ drinks...
1-5 This chapter continues the figurative address to Israel, in reference to Hosea's wife and children. Let us own and love as brethren, all whom the Lord seems to put among his children, and encoura...
FOR: this demonstrates the truth of the charge, and justifieth the severity of the punishment. THEIR MOTHER: see HOSEA 2:2. PLAYED THE HARLOT; doted on idols, worshipped them, and brought forth and ed...
Hosea 2:5 mother H517 harlot H2181 (H8804) conceived H2029 (H8802) shamefully H3001 (H8689) said H559 ...
“Yes, upon her children will I have no mercy, for they are children of whoredom; because their mother has played the harlot; she who conceived them has done shamefully.” And the consequences of Israel...
“Because she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.' ” The picture is of Israel thirsting after false religion because they w...
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...
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 said, I will go after my lovers._ THE SIN OF ISRAEL The sin of Israel was not simple whoredom, which may be done in the dark, but avowed, effronted idolatry. Whence learn-- 1. Such is the...
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 2:4 THEY ARE CHILDREN OF WHOREDOM. Here is a clear rejection of fatherhood. The Lord, like Hosea, is as a husband wronged and injured by infidelity....
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 2:2. PLEAD] Jehovah makes the demand, urges individual Israelites to reason with the _mother_, i.e. the nation viewed as one. The children were seduced, in danger of punishment,...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 2:6. HEDGE AND MAKE] Build _a wall_, a double enclosure of stones and thorns. In the East cattle are fenced with thorns and closes. God with determined purpose will interpose be...
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....
Daniel 9:5; Ezekiel 16:15; Ezekiel 16:16; Ezekiel 16:28; Ezekiel
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...