What does Hosea 11:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take offa the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them."
Verse Hosea 11:4. _I DREW THEM WITH CORDS OF A MAN_] This is a reference to _leading strings_, one end of which is held by the child, the other by the nurse, by which the little one, feeling some supp...
I DREW THEM WITH THE CORDS OF A MAN - o: “Wanton heifers such as was Israel, are drawn with ropes; but although Ephraim struggled against Me, I would not draw him as a beast, but I drew him as a man,...
CHAPTER 9:10-11:11 RETROSPECT, ISRAEL'S FAILURE AND RUIN _ 1. Israel once beloved, now fugitive wanderers (Hosea 9:10) _ 2. Their guilt and punishment (Hosea 10:1) 3. Exhortation and rebuke (Hosea...
THE DIVINE FATHER'S LOVE FOR ISRAEL. In Israel's youth Yahweh loved him, and called him from Egypt to be His son, but he proved disloyal, sacrificing to the Baalim (Hosea 11:1 f.). Yet it was Yahweh w...
I DREW. I would draw. MAN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14. TAKE OFF. lift up, or loosen: viz. the straps which hind the yoke to the neck. I LAID MEAT. holding out [food] to him. let him eat....
_I drew them with cords of a man_, &c. A new image suggested by Hosea 10:11, and descriptive of the fatherly love of God. Not with the violence suited to an unruly heifer, but with the -cords of men...
_DRAWN WITH CORDS OF LOVE -- HOSEA 11:4-6:_ God was kind and merciful to His people. He led them with kindness and with love. He "drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love." God did not lead t...
DISCOURSE: 1170 THE MANNER IN WHICH GOD DRAWS HIS PEOPLE Hosea 11:4. _I drew them with of a man, with bands of love_. THE doctrine of Divine influences is generally considered as enthusiastic and abs...
I DREW THEM WITH CORDS OF A MAN— "I employed, to gain their affection, all the motives which could influence a heart not insensible to love. They cannot complain that I treated them as animals, or as...
RECOGNIZING GOD'S COMPASSION REMONSTRATING TEXT: Hosea 11:1-9 1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. 2 The more the prophets called them, the more they went...
I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. I DREW THEM WITH CORDS OF A MAN - parallel to "bands...
THE INGRATITUDE OF ISRAEL Jehovah had been like a tender father and a kind master to Israel from the first, yet had they ever rejected Him and turned to idols. He cannot bear the thought of punishing...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 11 ISRAEL HAS FORGOTTEN THE *LORD V1 ‘I, (the *Lord), loved Israel when he was a child. I called my son out of Egypt. V2 But t...
CORDS OF A MAN. — In contrast with the cords with which unmanageable beasts are held in check. Israel is led with “bands of love,” not of compulsion. Render the last clause, _And gently towards them g...
בְּ חַבְלֵ֨י אָדָ֤ם אֶמְשְׁכֵם֙ בַּ עֲבֹתֹ֣ות אַהֲבָ֔ה וָ אֶהְיֶ֥ה לָהֶ֛ם כִּ מְרִ֥ימֵי עֹ֖ל עַ֣ל...
THE FATHERHOOD AND HUMANITY OF GOD Hosea 11:1 FROM the thick jungle of Hosea's travail, the eleventh chapter breaks like a high and open mound. The prophet enjoys the first of his two clear visions-...
“BANDS OF LOVE” Hosea 11:1-11 This is a very tender chapter, full of moving appeals. God looks back on the happy, blessed past, as a fond parent on the innocent childhood of a son who is now causing...
The third cycle of the prophecy sets forth the love which Jehovah had for His people, notwithstanding their sin. This section sets forth Jehovah's love toward His sinning people, and, for the most par...
I drew them with cords (c) of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. (c) That is, friendly, and not as beasts or slaves....
_Adam. I placed my people in a sort of paradise, (Calmet) like the first man; and as they have imitated him, they shall suffer accordingly. (Rufin. Haimo.) --- But Septuagint, &c., render, "of a man....
This is a sweet verse, and serves very blessedly to explain the powerful efficacy of the Lord's grace, at the same time the tenderness of the methods made use of is as plainly set forth. The cords of...
The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...
_THE BANDS OF LOVE_ ‘I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love.’ Hosea 11:4 The great principle of all God’s works is attraction. We all know how the law of attraction governs the materia...
The Prophet states, first, that this people had not been severely dealt with, as either slaves, or oxen, or asses, are wont to be treated. He had said before, that the people of Israel were like a hei...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9, 10, AND 11. In CHAPTER 9 we have here that touching mixture of affection and judgment which we find again and again in this prophet. Ephraim should not rem...
I DREW THEM WITH CORDS OF A MAN, WITH BANDS OF LOVE,.... As Ephraim is compared to a heifer in the preceding chapter, here he is said to be drawn; but not with such cords and bands as cattle are, but...
I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. Ver. 4. _I drew them with cords of a man_] Not of a bea...
_I taught Ephraim also to go_ Hebrew, תרגלתי לאפרים, _I directed the feet of Ephraim._ In this time of Ephraim's childhood, I supported and directed his steps, as a mother or nurse those of a child wh...
THE PROOF OF JEHOVAH'S LOVE...
TAKE OFF: _ Heb._ lift up...
1-7 When Israel were weak and helpless as children, foolish and froward as children, then God loved them; he bore them as the nurse does the sucking child, nourished them, and suffered their manners....
I DREW THEM; I found them backward and unapt to lead, I therefore in my pity laid my hand on them, and, as a father or friend, drew them gently to me. WITH CORDS OF A MAN, i.e. with such obliging kind...
Hosea 11:4 drew H4900 (H8799) gentle H120 cords H2256 bands H5688 love H160 take H7311 (H8688) yoke H5923 neck H3895 stooped H5186 (H8686) fed H398 (H8686) drew - Song of Solomon 1:4; Isaiah 63:9;...
YHWH DESCRIBES HOW HE HAD CALLED HIS SON (ISRAEL) OUT OF EGYPT AND WATCHED OVER HIM AS A FAITHFUL FATHER, TRAINING HIM IN THE RIGHT WAY, ONLY FOR HIS SON'S HEART TO REMAIN IN EGYPT SO THAT HE WOULD IN...
Hosea 11:4 This is not a day for difficult doctrines, but for the simplest and humblest feelings. The appeal is not made to our understanding nor even directly to our conscience. With the cords of a...
Hosea 11:1. _When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt._ God's love was very early love. He began with the nation of Israel when it was a mere handful of men in Egypt....
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. His tender love for Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Though men who have had relationship with God are ripe for ruin because of following their own couns...
Hosea 11:1. _When Israel was a child I loved him._ I led Joseph like a flock, by the hands of Moses and Aaron. I protected him among the kings of Canaan. I fed and multiplied him in Egypt; and when th...
_I drew them with cords of a man._ GOD’S SAVING METHOD WITH THE SOUL I. God in the action of great solicitude. “I drew them.” There are two ways by which this thought is confirmed-- 1. By Scripture...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 11:2 The Lord never stopped loving Israel. Throughout their history, he TAUGHT EPHRAIM (that is, Israel) TO WALK, and he HEALED THEM, as a father does with his child. LED THEM WITH...
CRITICAL NOTES. HOSEA 11:1.] The prophet shows how Israel had repaid God’s love in the past with ingratitude and unfaithfulness. CHILD] “First-born son” (Exodus 4:22), the infancy in Egypt and the wi...
EXPOSITION In Hosea 11:1 Jehovah enumerates the benefits conferred on Israel all along from the time of their departure out of Egypt. But parallel with this enumeration runs the history of Israel's i...
God continues His lament and all. He said, When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt (Hsa Hosea 11:1). Now, this verse has been used in Matthew's gospel as a prophecy...
2 Corinthians 5:14; 2 Samuel 7:14; Hosea 2:8; Isaiah 63:9; John 12:32; John 6:32; John 6:44; Leviticus 26:13; Psalms 105:40; Psalms 78:23;...
A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF HOSEA Hosea 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As introductory to our study of the Book of Hosea, we propose to show how God wrote His messages in Hosea, as well as by him. There is a ve...
Cords of man — With such kindness as best fits and most prevails with a man. I was to them — As a careful husband — man in due season takes the yoke from his labouring oxen, and takes off the muzzle w...