Hosea 1:7

But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen. BUT I WILL HAVE MERCY UPON THE HOUSE OF JUDAH. Judah is only incidentally mentioned, to form a contrast to Israel. AND WILL SAVE THEM BY THE LORD THEIR GOD - more emphatic than 'by myself;' by that Yahweh (me) whom they worship as "their God," whereas ye despise him. NOT ... BY BOW - on which ye Israelites rely (, "the bow of Israel"). Jeroboam II was famous as a warrior (). Yet it was not by their warlike power Yahweh would save Judah (;...

This verse sufficiently proves what I said yesterday, that the Prophet was specifically appointed to the kingdom of Israel; for he seems here to speak favourably of the Jews, who yet, we know, had been severely and deservedly reproved by their own teachers. For what does Isaiah say, after having spoken of the dreadful corruptions which then prevailed in the kingdom of Israel? ‘Come,’ he says, ‘into the house of Judah, they at least continue as yet pure: there,’ he says, ‘all the tables are full of vomiting; they are drunken; there reigns also the contempt of God and all impiety,’ (Isaiah 28:8.) We see then that the Jews were not a virtuous people, of whom the Prophet has spoken so honourably. For though the exterior worship of God continued at Jerusalem, and the temple, at least under Uzziah and Jotham, was free from every superstition, and also under king Hezekiah; yet the morals of the...

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 last long if they go on still in their trespasses. The prophet must show Israel their sin; show it to be exceedingly hateful. Their idolatry is the sin they are here charged with. Giving that glory to any creature which is due to God alone, is an injury and affront to God; such as for a wife to take a stranger, is to her husband. The Lord, doubtless, had good reasons for giving such a command to the prophet; it would form an affecting picture of the Lord's unmerited goodness and unwearied patience, and of the perverseness and ingratitude of Israel. We should be broken and wearied with half that perverseness from others, with which we try the patience and grieve the Spirit of our God. Let us a...

Verse Hosea 1:7. _BUT I WILL HAVE MERCY UPON THE HOUSE OF JUDAH_] I will spare them as a kingdom after Israel has been carried away into captivity by the Assyrians. _AND WILL SAVE THEM BY THE LORD THEIR GOD_] Remarkably fulfilled in the supernatural defeat of the army of the Assyrians, see 2 Kings 19:35; and so they were saved not by _bow_, nor by _sword_, nor by _battle_, nor by _horses_, nor by _horsemen_. The former expression may mean, not in _war by horses_, i.e., yoked to war _chariots_, nor _by horsemen_-nor by cavalry, however efficient such troops might have then been deemed....

I WILL HAVE MERCY ON THE HOUSE OF JUDAH - For to them the promises were made in David, and of them, according to the flesh, Christ was to come. Israel, moreover, as being founded in rebellion and apostasy, had gone on from bad to worse. All their kings clave to the sin of Jeroboam; not one did right in the sight of God; not one repented or hearkened to God. Whereas Judah, having the true Worship of God, and the reading of the law, and the typical sacrifices, through which it looked on to the great Sacrifice for sin, was on the whole, a witness to the truth of God (see the note at Hosea 11:12). AND WILL SAVE THEM BY THE LORD THEIR GOD, NOT BY BOW ... - Shortly after this, God did, in the reign of Hezekiah, save them by Himself from Sennacherib, when the Angel of the Lord smote in one night 185,000 in the camp of the Assyr

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 the former prophets comprise most of the historical hooks, for the Hebrew conception of a prophet was that of an individual inspired by God to instruct men for the present or inform them of the future, whether orally or by writing; the _later _were the prophets properly so called, while these, again, are subdivided into the _greater, _consisting of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and the _lesser, _or minor, including the remaining twelve. The designation "minor" does not imply any inferiority in importance of subject or value of contents

BUT I WILL HAVE MERCY ON THE HOUSE OF JUDAH,.... The two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, which retained the true worship of God among them; see Hosea 11:12 and though they often sinned against the Lord, he showed them mercy, and spared them longer than the ten tribes; and though he suffered them to be carried captive into Babylon, he returned them again after seventy years: this is mentioned as an aggravation of the punishment of Israel, that Judah was spared, when they were not; and to show that God will have a people to seek and serve him, and, when he rejects some, he will make a reserve of others: AND WILL SAVE THEM BY THE LORD THEIR GOD; by his own arm and power, and not theirs, or any creature's; nor by any warlike means or instruments whatever, as follows: AND WILL NOT SAVE THEM BY BOW, NOR BY SWORD, NOR BY BATTLE, BY HORSES, NOR BY HORSEMEN: which

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 1:1) _ 2. The prophet's marriage and birth of Jezreel (Hosea 1:2) 3. The birth of Lo-Ruhamah (Hosea 1:6) 4. The birth of Lo-ammi (Hosea 1:8) 5. The future restoration (Hosea 1:10) Hosea 1:1. This superscription gives the period of Hosea's ministry.

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 startling procedure is that the land (_i.e._ the land of Israel) doth commit great whoredom departing from the LORD. Hosea obeys and takes as his wife _Gomer bath Diblaim_ (? daughter of fig-cakes), who bears three children to him. These are given symbolical names: the first, a son, is called Jezreel, a prophetic name pointing to the coming of vengeance on the house of Jehu [7] for the massacre at Jezreel of Ahab's house (2 Kings 10:11); the second a daughter and the third a son, bearing the names Lo-ruhamah (uncompassionated) and Lo-ammi (not my people), in token of Yahweh's rejection of Ephraim. [7] Jeroboam II. whose son Zechariah was the last of Jeh

JUDAH. Hosea 1:7 is not an "interpolation", but is. definite and distinctive contrast with the prophecy concerning Israel. BY THE LORD THEIR GOD. by (Jehovah their Elohim: i.e. the Messiah, or the angel of Jehovah. See 2 Kings 19:35. But it looks forward to the future fulfillment, which will exhaust the prophecy in the destruction of Antichrist (Isaiah 11:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:8, &c)....