Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Hosea 2:12
Rewards] RV 'hire': the bribe for which Israel had worshipped the idols (lovers) under the mistaken belief that they gave them these things: see on Hosea 2:5.
Rewards] RV 'hire': the bribe for which Israel had worshipped the idols (lovers) under the mistaken belief that they gave them these things: see on Hosea 2:5.
Verse Hosea 2:12. _THESE_ ARE _MY REWARDS_] They attributed all the blessings of Providence as rewards received from the idols which they worshipped....
AND I WILL DESTROY HER VINES AND HER FIG TREES - Before, God had threatened to take away the fruits in their seasons; now He says, that he will take away all hope for the future; not the fruit only, b...
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...
DESTROY. lay waste. Compare Psalms 105:33. WHEREOF. In Hosea 2:5. REWARDS. my hire, or fee.. technical term. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 23:18). App-92....
The offended Husband describes the compulsion which he will employ towards his faithless wife....
_her vines and her fig trees_ The Hebrew has -her vine and her fig-tree". It would seem as if here, as in Joel 1:7, Israel personified were represented with a vine and a fig-tree, like any individual...
_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 INGRATITUDESHAME REVEALED TEXT: Hosea 2:9-13 9 Therefore will I take back my grain in the time thereof, and my new wine in the season thereof, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which...
And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them....
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...
DESTROY. — For this read, with margin, _make desolate._ The vine and fig tree are employed as the symbol of possession and peace (1 Kings 4:25; Isaiah 36:16, &c.). The desolation may be by fire or dro...
_[Hosea 2:14]_ וַ הֲשִׁמֹּתִ֗י גַּפְנָהּ֙ וּ תְאֵ֣נָתָ֔הּ...
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...
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...
I now come to the second kind of nakedness: the Prophet says, _I will waste _or _destroy her vine and her fig-tree, of which she has said, Reward are these to me; that is, _These things are wages to m...
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...
AND I WILL DESTROY HER VINES AND HER FIG TREES,.... Which are mentioned for the rest, being the most fruitful and beneficial: this was done when Judea was invaded, overrun and wasted, by the Roman arm...
And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These [are] my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them....
_And I will destroy her vines_ Those blessings, or fruits of the earth, which she has attributed to her false gods, I will give to the beasts of the field to eat, making the whole land only a wilderne...
And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, representative of the wealth of the country in farm products. WHEREOF SHE HATH SAID, THESE ARE MY REWARDS THAT MY LOVERS HAVE GIVEN ME, thus blasphemous...
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...
DESTROY: _ Heb._ make desolate...
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...
God will do it either by blasting, or by the Assyrians, who, as other invaders, shall spoil all. DESTROY; make very desolate, or lay waste. HER VINES AND HER FIG TREES: these two were mentioned, but a...
Hosea 2:12 destroy H8074 (H8689) vines H1612 trees H8384 said H559 (H8804) wages H866 lovers H157 ...
“And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, of which she has said, “These are my hire which my lovers have given me,” and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field will eat them.”...
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...
_She decked herself with her ornaments and her Jewels._ THE PROSPERITY OF THE WICKED The wicked-- I. As prospering in the world. Vines and fig-trees stand for prosperity. Wicked men are allowed to...
_None shall deliver her out of My hand._ THE LORD’S SENTENCE I. Taking away things necessary to life, Learn-- 1. However the Lord communicate of His bounty with the children of men, yet He still re...
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. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 2:12. VINES AND FIG-TREES] Esteemed _rewards_, wages of prostitution (Deuteronomy 23:19; Isaiah 23:17); the choicest produce of earth, denoting sustenance and prosperity, would...
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....
Hosea 2:5; Hosea 9:1; Isaiah 29:17; Isaiah 32:13; Isaiah 5:5;...
My rewards — They gave the praise of all their abundance to idols. Them — Their vine — yards and olive — yards, and the places where they planted their fig — trees, and other fruit — trees....