Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Hosea 6:1
Come, and let us return, &c.— Almost all the ancients connect this with the preceding chapter, by the words, And they shall say,—Come, &c.
Come, and let us return, &c.— Almost all the ancients connect this with the preceding chapter, by the words, And they shall say,—Come, &c.
CHAPTER VI _The prophet earnestly exhorts to repentance_, 1-3. _God is then introduced as very tenderly and pathetically_ _remonstrating against the backslidings of Ephraim and Judah,_ 4-11. NOTE...
COME AND LET US RETURN UNTO THE LORD - These words depend closely on the foregoing. They are words put into their mouth by God Himself, with which or with the like, they should exhort one another to r...
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...
LET US RETURN. These are the words of Israel in. yet future day, as already symbolized by the return of Gomer (Hosea 3:2; Hosea 3:3), and foretold in Hosea 3:5. See the Structure, p. 1213). This is th...
_he will heal us_ At any rate the Israelites have found out the true physician (comp. Hosea 7:1; Hosea 11:3). Assyria -could not heal them" (Hosea 5:13)....
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...
_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...
DISCOURSE: 1153 THE CHARACTERISTIC MARKS OF TRUE PENITENCE Hosea 6:1. _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_. THE spir...
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...
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. At a new discourse, complaining of them, begins; because Hosea 6:1 evidently b...
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....
לְכוּ֙ וְ נָשׁ֣וּבָה אֶל ־יְהוָ֔ה כִּ֛י ה֥וּא
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...
Come, and let (a) us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. (a) He shows the people that they ought to turn to the Lord, so that he migh...
_Early, or in haste. All the people will repent. (Calmet)_...
CONTENTS The opening of this Chapter is most blessed indeed, and carries with it evident tokens of grace. The other parts are somewhat like the preceding Chapter s, the Lord's expostulations with his...
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...
In the last chapter the Prophet said, that the Israelites, after having been subdued by chastisements and judgments, would again turn back from following error to seek God. But as terror drives men aw...
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...
COME, AND LET US RETURN UNTO THE LORD,.... The Septuagint and Arabic versions connect these words with the last clause of the preceding chapter, adding the word, "saying"; and so the Targum and Syriac...
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. Ver. 1. _Come, and let us return unto the Lord, &c._] So sweetly was God's expec...
_Come, let us return_, &c. Bishop Horsley considers the prophet as speaking here in his own person, to the end of the 3d verse, and taking occasion, from the intimation of pardon to the penitent, give...
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...
Come and let us return unto the Lord, the appeal being to seek the Lord in agreement with the last statement of the preceding Chapter, FOR HE HATH TORN, by the punishments for sin which He sent upon t...
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...
HOSEA CHAPTER 6 An exhortation to repentance, HOSEA 6:1. A complaint against Israel and Judah for persisting still in their wickedness, HOSEA 6:4. The former chapter ended with a declaration of God's...
Hosea 6:1 Come H3212 (H8798) return H7725 (H8799) LORD H3068 torn H2963 (H8804) heal H7495 ...
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...
‘Come, and let us return to YHWH, for he has torn, and he will heal us, he has smitten, and he will bind us up.' The carcass torn by the Lion and smitten and diseased (Hosea 5:13), is called on itself...
Hosea 6:1 I. These words declare that the motive of every Divine judgment, within the limits of this life, is mercy: the end of every affliction, however crushing, is the restoration of a sinner to th...
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...
_Come, and let us return unto the Lord._ THE CHARACTERISTIC MARKS OF TRUE PENITENCE These words are the expressions of that penitence which was excited in the Israelites by God’s departure from them...
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 Samuel 2:6; Deuteronomy 32:39; Hosea 13:7; Hosea 14:1; Hosea 5:12;...
Come — The prophet here brings them in, exhorting one another. He hath torn — We now see his hand in all we suffer....