Hosea 2:1

Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. Israel's spiritual fornication, and her threatened punishment: yet a promise of God's restored favour, when chastisements have produced their designed effect. SAY YE UNTO YOUR BRETHREN, AMMI; AND TO YOUR SISTERS, RUHAMAH - i:e., when the prediction () shall be accomplished, then ye will call one another, as brothers and sisters in the family of God, Ammi and Ruhamah....

The Prophet having spoken of the people’s restoration, and promised that God would some time receive into favour those whom he had before rejected, now exhorts the faithful mutually to stir up one another to receive this favour. He had previously mentioned a public proclamation; for it is not in the power of men to make themselves the children of God, but God himself freely adopts them. But now the mutual exhortation of which the Prophet speaks follows the proclamation; for God at the same time invites us to himself. After we are taught in common, it remains then that each one should extend his hand to his brethren, that we may thus with one consent be brought together to the Lord. This then is what the Prophet means by saying, _Say ye to your brethren, _ עמי _omi, and to your sisters _ רוחמה _ruchamah; _that is, since I have promised to be propitious to you, you can now safely testify t...

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 encourage them in that they have received mercy. But every Christian, by his example and conduct, must protest against evil and abuses, even among those to whom he belongs and owes respect. Impenitent sinners will soon be stripped of the advantages they misuse, and which they consume upon their lusts....

CHAPTER II _The prophet exhorts his people to speak and to act as became_ _those who obtained mercy of God; and to remonstrate strongly_ _against the conduct of their mother, (Samaria,) whose captivity_ _is threatened on account of her forsaking God, and ascribing_ _her prosperity to idols_, 1-5. _As an amplification of this threatening, the prophet_ _ennumerates a series of afflictions which were to befall her_ _to bring her to a sense of her duty to God; and of her folly_ _in seeking after idols, and falsely ascribing to them the_...

SAY YE UNTO YOUR BRETHREN, AMMI - that is, “My people, and to your sisters, Ruhamah,” i. e., “beloved or tenderly pitied.” The words form a climax of the love of God. First, the people scattered , unpitied , and disowned by God , is re-born of God; then it is declared to be in continued relation to God, “My people;” then to be the object of his yearning love. The words, “My people,” may be alike filled up, “ye are My people,” and “be ye My people.” They are words of hope in prophecy, “ye shall be again My people;” they become words of joy in each stage of fulfillment. They are words of mutual joy and gratulation, when obeyed; they are words of encouragement, until obeyed. God is reconciled to us, and willeth that we be reconciled to Him. Among those who already are God’s people, they are the voice of the joy of mutual love in the oneness of the Spirit of adoption; “we are His people;” to...

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, that what is expressed by symbol in the one is simply narrated in the other. The cycle is the common one of sin: its usual consequences of suffering and sorrow; then succor and sympathy in case of repentance. The persons addressed in the verse before us are those individuals in Israel who had still retained their integrity, and who, notwithstanding surrounding defection and abounding ungodliness, had continued steadfast in their loyalty and love to the Lord. They might be few in number, widely scattered, perhaps unknown to each other, and of comparatively little note; yet they are here called on to raise their voice in solemn warning and earnest prote

SAY YE UNTO YOUR BRETHREN, AMMI; AND TO YOUR SISTERS, RUHAMAH. These words are to be considered either in connection with the latter part of the preceding chapter, and as directed to the sons of the living God, who had not been, but now were, "Ammi", the Lord's people; and who had not, but now have, "Ruhamah", obtained mercy; which grace and mercy shown them, it became them to speak of one to another, to affect their hearts mutually with it, and to glorify God for it, Malachi 3:16 as also to speak of it to their carnal relations, that so, if it was the will of God, it might be of use to them, to show them the state they were in, the danger of it, their need of the grace and mercy of God, and the hope there was by their own instance and example of obtaining it; see Romans 9:1, or as directed to the converted Jews t

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 and its great blessing (Hosea 2:14) Hosea 2:1. Who is addressed in the first verse of this chapter? Some think the children of the prophet are meant. The godly in Israel, those who obtained mercy, are addressed, for the Lord acknowledges such still as “Ammi”-my people. The godly are to plead with the rest of Israel their mother, but who is disowned by Jehovah as the wife, on account of her adulterous conduct. Then the Lord th

HOSEA 2:1. BRETHREN AND SISTERS: read with LXX, brother and sister. The whole passage is clearly out of place, and may be a later insertion. Still the language is not inharmonious with Hosea's diction, especially if go up from the land can mean gain the mastery over the land. Further, the conception of north-Israelites and Judæ ans marching together under one head suggests a date prior to the downfall of the Northern Kingdom (722 B.C.). Many scholars think that the section should follow Hosea 2:23. A better suggestion is that Hosea 3 was originally intended to follow immediately on Hosea 1:2. Then the promise of restoration, ethically conditioned, would follow on...

AMMI. My People. RUHAMAH. Pitied One....