What does Hosea 1:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avengea the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel."
Verse Hosea 1:4. _CALL HIS NAME JEZREEL_] יזרעאל that is, _God will_ _disperse_. This seems to intimate that a dispersion or sowing of Israel shall take place; which happened under Shalmaneser, king o...
CALL HIS NAME JEZREEL - that is, in its first sense here, “God will scatter.” The life of the prophet, and his union with one so unworthy of him, were a continued prophecy of God’s mercy. The names of...
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...
JEZREEL. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6) between Israel (Hosea 1:1) and Jezreel (Hebrew. _Yisra'el_ and _Yizr! eel)._ The name is prophetic of coming judgment (see Hosea 1:5) and futur...
_Call his name Jezreel_ The child of guilt; therefore not Israel but Jezreel (or, more exactly, Izreel). The name is referred to for its historical associations (comp. on Hosea 2:22). It points both b...
_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...
CALL HIS NAME JEZREEL— For the honourable name of _Israel_ is too good for this people. Call them therefore _Jezreel,_ a people devoted to dispersion, and such as I will scatter unto the four winds of...
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 the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel....
1:4 Jizreel; (a-9) Meaning, 'God soweth,' or 'will sow,' ch. 2.23. blood (b-19) Or 'bloodguiltiness.' it is the plural, expressive of bloodshed; so ch. 12.14....
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...
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...
JEZREEL means “God shall sow.” The prophet had already discovered the faithlessness of his spouse, and that his married life was symbolic of his nation’s history. Observe the resemblance in sound betw...
וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֵלָ֔יו קְרָ֥א שְׁמֹ֖ו יִזְרְעֶ֑אל כִּי ־עֹ֣וד מְעַ֗ט וּ פָ֨קַדְתִּ֜י אֶת ־דְּמֵ֤י...
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 cit...
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 resulte...
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 the LORD said unto him, Call his name (e) Jezreel; for yet a little [while], and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of (f) Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of...
_Jezrahel. Jehu slew Joram in this place. He was the instrument of God's justice, yet acted himself through malice and ambition, and was therefore deservedly punished. Zacharias, the fourth of his fam...
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...
It now follows, the wife _conceived_, — the imaginary one, the wife as represented and exhibited. She _conceived_, he says, _and bare a son: then said Jehovah to him, Call his name Jezreel_. Many rend...
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 THE LORD SAID UNTO HIM CALL HIS NAME JEZREEL,.... Which some interpret the "seed of God", as Jerom; or "arm of God", as others; and Kimchi applies it to Jeroboam the son of Joash, who was strong,...
And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little [while], and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel....
Hos. 1:4. "For yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Israel upon the house of Jehu." This prophecy was given in the days of Jeroboam, a king of the house of Jehu, not long before the dest...
_And the Lord said, Call his name Jezreel_ This name, compounded of the nouns זרע _seed_, and אל, _God_, signifies _the seed of God._ The names, it must be observed, imposed upon the woman's children...
ISRAEL TO BE REJECTED ON ACCOUNT OF ITS IDOLATRY...
AVENGE: _ Heb._ visit...
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...
AND THE LORD SAID UNTO HIM, Hosea the prophet, who as in taking to wife an adulteress, so in giving name to his son by her, was to presignify Israel's future calamities. Call his name, thy son now bor...
Hosea 1:4 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Call H7121 (H8798) name H8034 Jezreel H3157 little H4592 avenge H6485 (H8804) bloodshed H1818 Jezreel H3157 house H1004 Jehu H3058 end H7673 (H8689) kingdom H446...
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 t...
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...
_Call his name Jezreel._ JUDGMENT ON THE HOUSE OF AHAB Jezreel means, the child of guilt; therefore not Israel, but Jezreel (or more exactly, Izreel). The name is referred to for its historical assoc...
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. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var im...
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...
1 Chronicles 5:25; 1 Chronicles 5:26; 2 Kings 15:10; 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:9; 2 Kings 9:24; 2 Kings 9:25; Ezekiel 23:10;...
The blood — The slaughters made by Jehu's hand or by his order, in Jezreel. The house of Jehu — Which had now possessed the throne, through the reigns of Jehoahaz, Jehoash, and Jeroboam; but the usurp...