I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. — Jehu was to be punished for the assassination of Ahab’s descendants. Though the destruction of the house of Ahab was divinely appointed, its value was neutralised by Jehu’s tolerance of the calf-worship.
Verse Hosea 1:5. _IN THE VALLEY OF JEZREEL_] This also is supposed to relate either to some signal defeat of the Israelites by the Assyrians, which took place in the valley of Jezreel; or to the deat...
I WILL BREAK THE BOW OF ISRAEL IN THE VALLEY OF JEZREEL - The valley of Jezreel is a beautiful and a broad valley or plain, stretching, from West to East, from Mount Carmel and the sea to the Jordan,...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE REJECTION OF ISRAEL AS THE ADULTEROUS WIFE AND HER FUTURE RECEPTION AND RESTORATION CHAPTER 1 Israel's Sin and Promise of Restoration _ 1. The introduction (Hosea 1...
HOSEA'S MARRIAGE: A PARABLE OF YAHWEH'S RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL. The prophet receives a Divine command to take (_i.e._ marry) a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom. The reason given for this start...
AT THAT DAY: i.e. the day of 2 Kings 18:11. BOW. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the Adjunct), App-6, for the armies of Israel....
_the bow of Israel_ The bow, the symbol of power (Genesis 49:24; Jeremiah 49:35). _in the valley of Jezreel_ It seemed fitting that this -battlefield of Palestine" (as the valley of Jezreel had alread...
_A SON NAMED JEZREEL -- HOSEA 1:4-5:_ Concerning the first son that was born God told Hosea, "Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Je...
THAT I WILL BREAK THE BOW OF ISRAEL, &C.— St. Jerome says, the Israelites were overthrown by the Assyrians in a pitched battle in the plain of Jezrael or Jezreel. But of any such battle we have no men...
LOVE REBUFFED GOMER'S INGRATITUDESPIRIT OF HARLOTRY TEXT: Hosea 1:1-8 1 The word of Jehovah that came unto Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah...
And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. I WILL BREAK THE BOW OF ISRAEL - the prowess (: cf. , "His bow abode in strength"). IN THE VAL...
HOSEA'S MARRIAGE AND ITS LESSONS 1. A general heading. Hosea 1:2. The prophet's marriage with Gomer, the birth of her three children, and the symbolical meaning attached to them. HOSEA 1:1 TO HOSEA 2...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ INTRODUCTION Hosea wrote in the middle of the eighth century BC (Before Christ). He gave most of his messages to Israel, the country in...
וְ הָיָ֖ה בַּ † יֹּ֣ום הַ ה֑וּא...
THE STORY OF THE PRODIGAL WIFE Hosea 1:1; Hosea 2:1; Hosea 3:1 IT has often been remarked that, unlike the first Doomster of Israel, Israel's first Evangelist was one of themselves, a native and citi...
GOD GATHERS THE OUTCAST Hosea 1:1-11 The story of Hosea is a pathetic one. He felt impressed that it was his duty to take as wife one whose earlier life had been unchaste. From this marriage resulted...
The statement with which this prophecy opens, "When the Lord spake at the first," is a declaration by Hosea long after the events. Looking back, he understood that the impulse which resulted in the he...
And it shall come to pass at that (g) day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. (g) When the measure of their iniquity is full, and I will take vengeance and destroy all thei...
Some have thought, that what is here said of Hosea, was in vision, and not in reality. But others have deemed it to be literally as is here stated. In either sense, the doctrine is the same. God inten...
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...
Introduction I. INTRODUCTION A. We have finished the book of Daniel and today we begin the first book in what is classified as "The Minor Prophets." 1. The classification is really a little unfair...
This verse was intentionally added; for the Israelites were so inflated with their present good fortune, that they laughed at the judgement denounced. They indeed knew that they were well furnished wi...
The first three Chapter s compose the first part, or the revelations of God's purposes with respect to Israel. From the outset Israel is treated as being in a state of rebellion against God The prophe...
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS AT THAT DAY,.... When the Lord shall take vengeance on the family of Jehu, and deprive them of the kingdom of Israel, and shall punish the idolatrous kings that succeed: THA...
And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. Ver. 5. _I will break the bow of Israel_] Though it may seem to have a back of steel, and though i...
_And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break_, &c. This entire abolition of the kingdom of the ten tribes shall take effect at the time when I break the bow, &c. Here the _breaking of the...
ISRAEL TO BE REJECTED ON ACCOUNT OF ITS IDOLATRY...
And it shall come to pass at that day that I will break the bow of Israel, the military force on which the strength of the kingdom rested, on which its existence depended, IN THE VALLEY OF JEZREEL, fo...
1-7 Israel was prosperous, yet then Hosea boldly tells them of their sins, and foretells their destruction. Men are not to be flattered in sinful ways because they prosper in the world; nor will it l...
IT SHALL COME TO PASS; most certainly this shall be effected. AT THAT DAY; when my vengeance hath overtaken the house of Jehu, when his great-great-grandson shall be slain. I will break; weaken, and b...
Hosea 1:5 day H3117 break H7665 (H8804) bow H7198 Israel H3478 Valley H6010 Jezreel H3157 I will -...
‘And YHWH said to him, “Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom (or kingship) of the house of Israe...
YHWH'S STEADFAST LOVE FOR ISRAEL AND HER UNFAITHFULNESS TO HIM IS EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP WITH AN ASSURANCE THAT ONE DAY THERE WILL BE FULL RESTORATION (HOSEA 1:2 TO HOSEA 3:5)...
YHWH'S STEADFAST LOVE FOR ISRAEL AND HER UNFAITHFULNESS TO HIM IS EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP WITH AN ASSURANCE THAT ONE DAY THERE WILL BE FULL RESTORATION (HOSEA 1:2 TO HOSEA 3:5)...
HOSEA'S WIFE AND CHILDREN ARE TO BE A SIGN OF THE UNFAITHFULNESS OF ISRAEL (HOSEA 1:2 TO HOSEA 2:5 A). There is no reason in chapter 1 for seeing Gomer's ‘whoredom' as being anything other than spirit...
CONTENTS: Israel, Jehovah's dishonored wife, repudiated, but to be restored. CHARACTERS: God, Hosea, Uzziah, Hezekiah, Jeroboam, Gomer, Jezreel, Jehu, Lo-ruhamah, Lo-ammi. CONCLUSION: Giving glory to...
Hosea 1:1. _Hosea, the son of Beeri._ The prophets named their parents, not only to distinguish themselves from others of that name, but to mark that they were sons of prophets, or that their fathers...
_I will break the bow._ A NATION’S HUMILIATION THROUGH ITS ARMY This verse was intentionally added; for the Israelites were so inflated with their present good fortune, that they laughed at the judgm...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 1:1 Biographical: Hosea’s Family. The unfaithfulness of Hosea’s wife, Gomer, and her eventual restoration to him, are a parable for the Lord’s relationship to Israel....
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 1:3 Hosea’s wife bears children, and God gives them prophetic names. The text suggests that Hosea was in fact the father of Gomer’s first child (BORE HIM, v. Hosea
CRITICAL NOTES.— Hosea 1:3. Gom.] The name of a nation (Genesis 10:2); symbolically G. = completion; i.e. completely given up to whoredom. DIB.] = daughter of grape-cakes, indicating pleasure and sen...
EXPOSITION HOSEA 1:1 THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME UNTO HOSEA, THE SON OF BEERI. The prophets are divided into the former (_rishonim, _Zechariah 1:4) prophets and the later prophets. The writings of...
Now he tells us in the first verse during the time which he did prophesy. So immediately we realize that as he was prophesying, and his prophecy was essentially to the Northern Kingdom of Israel, but...
Hosea 2:18; Jeremiah 49:34; Jeremiah 49:35; Jeremiah 51:56; Joshu
At that day — When my vengeance hath overtaken the house of Jehu. Break — Weaken and by degrees quite break. The bow — All their warlike provision, power and skill. Jezreel — In this valley it is prob...