Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Hosea 2:4
Verse Hosea 2:4. They be the children of whoredoms.] They are all idolaters; and have been consecrated to idols, whose marks they bear.
Verse Hosea 2:4. They be the children of whoredoms.] They are all idolaters; and have been consecrated to idols, whose marks they bear.
I WILL NOT HAVE MERCY UPON HER CHILDREN - God visits the sins of the parents upon the children, until the entailed curse be cut off by repentance. God enforces His own word “lo-ruhamah, Unpitied,” by...
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...
CHILDREN. sons: i.e. the individual members of the nation collectively....
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...
_And upon her children_ No bar shall be opposed, Jehovah declares, to the natural consequence of a corrupt and corrupting religion. Israel, as an independent nation, must at least for a time cease to...
_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...
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. AND I WILL NOT HAVE MERCY UPON HER CHILDREN - not even her individual members shall escape the doom of the natio...
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...
HER CHILDREN. — The children are like their mother: not only are they born of doubtful parentage, but are personally defiled. Not only is idolatry enshrined in the national sanctuary and the royal pal...
_[Hosea 2:6]_ וְ אֶת ־בָּנֶ֖יהָ לֹ֣א אֲרַחֵ֑ם...
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...
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [be] the (f) children of whoredoms. (f) That is bastards, and begotten in adultery....
_Fornications. They imitate their parents. (Haydock) --- I will not spare them, as I did some in the wilderness. (St. Jerome) --- Punishment will not cease till people repent. (Worthington)_...
But yet remember how the Lord pleads with his people under their rebellions. Here the whole Church is represented as our mother; and called in to hear of her backslidings; that when Christ was married...
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...
The Lord now comes close to each individual, after having spoken in general of the whole people: and thus we see that to be true which I have said, that it was far from the mind of the Prophet to supp...
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 NOT HAVE MERCY UPON HER CHILDREN,.... The posterity of the Jews in succeeding ages, until the time of their conversion comes; they persisting in the sins of their forefathers, filling up th...
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [be] the children of whoredoms. Ver. 4. _And I will not have mercy upon her children_] Lo, here another "and" to those four before; and more drea...
_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...
And I will not have mercy upon her children, all the members of the nation being included in His punishment; FOR THEY BE THE CHILDREN OF WHOREDOMS, all of them being guilty of the same shameless idola...
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...
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...
I WILL NOT HAVE MERCY: see HOSEA 1:6. UPON HER CHILDREN: by this expression particular persons are severally, as by mother the whole nation was, threatened, that none might flatter themselves with hop...
Hosea 2:4 mercy H7355 (H8762) children H1121 children H1121 harlotry H2183 I will not - Hosea 1:6;...
“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...
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...
_I will not have mercy._ THREATENING AND PLEADING (compare Hosea 2:2):--“Let her put away her whoredoms,” etc. What should we learn hereby, but that it hangs upon our own will whether God suspend 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,...
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....
2 Kings 9:22; Ezekiel 8:18; Ezekiel 9:10; Hosea 1:2; Hosea 1:6;...