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G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Hosea 1:1-11

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 heart agony was also part of the divine method of teaching him. There is no reason to believe that Gomer was outwardly impure in the days when Hosea married her. If impurity were in her heart, Hosea did not how it, and it was not apparent during the early days of their married life. In the picture... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 1:2-11

YHWH’S STEADFAST LOVE FOR ISRAEL AND HER UNFAITHFULNESS TO HIM IS EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP WITH AN ASSURANCE THAT ONE DAY THERE WILL BE FULL RESTORATION (Hosea 1:2 to Hosea 3:5 ). There is nothing more poignant than this beautiful picture of God in His love seeing Israel as His wife, even though she has been unfaithful to Him, and determining that once she has learned her lesson He will woo her back to Himself. But the picture comes first as a stark warning to the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 1:10

‘And it will come about that, in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people”, it will be said to them, “You are the sons of the living God.” Thus there was to come a time when in the very place where they had been declared ‘not My people’ it would be said to them that ‘you are the sons of the living God’. As sons they would consequently be restored to the covenant (compare Deuteronomy 14:1; Deuteronomy 32:19). This occurred literally in Palestine in the inter-testamental... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 1:10-11

Hosea 1:10-1 Kings : . Hosea 1:1 (= Hebrews 2:1-Leviticus :). A Promise of Restoration.— The children of Israel are destined to be increased in numbers indefinitely, and instead of being called ( Hosea 1:10 mg.) “ Ye are not my people” they shall be called “ children of the living God.” Judæ ans and Israelites shall assemble, and under one head go up victoriously “ from the land” (see below), and on the same battlefield (Jezreel), which has witnessed the utter defeat of present-day... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hosea 1:10

Yet: this may anticipate the carnal Israel’s objection, that thus God would fail of his word to Abraham, or he would lose his people. Nothing so, yet, though ten tribes be for ever captivated, God will have his Israel. The number of the children of Israel; not Israel after the flesh, not those very persons, families that are carried captive, (though for aught I know, or any can tell to the contrary, these may be so increased for Abraham’s sake,) but the Israel of God according to the faith, the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hosea 1:10-11

CRITICAL NOTES.—Hosea 1:11. Gathered together] in one body. One head] Zerubbabel typically, Christ really (Jeremiah 3:18; Ezekiel 34:23). Go up] from Babylon, from whence God restored the two tribes; typ. = deliverance from sin and moral dignity; go up from sinful life, join the Christian Church and march to the land of promise. Great, &c.] Not as Hosea 1:4. God will increase in mercy, not scatter in displeasure. Where Israel was overthrown, victory shall be achieved. Instead of no mercy... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Hosea 1:10

Israel "Israel" in Hosea means the ten tribes forming the northern kingdom as distinguished from "Judah" (the tribes of Judah and Benjamin) forming the southern kingdom which adhered to the Davidic family. (See) 1 Kings 12:1-21. The promise of verse 10 awaits fulfilment. See "Israel" ; Genesis 12:2; Genesis 12:3; Romans 11:26. read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Hosea 1:1-11

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 while he was prophesying to the Northern Kingdom of Israel was the same time that Isaiah was prophesying to the Southern Kingdom of Judah. For he names those same kings that reigned during the time of Isaiah's prophecy. And so Hosea was a contemporary to Isaiah.For he declares:The word of the LORD... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 1:1-11

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 were men of note and worth in the estimation of the church. Hosea 1:2 . Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms. Some would suggest, that as idolatry is called whoredom, the prophet married a woman who worshipped idols. Hosea 1:4 . Call his name Jezreel, meaning that God would disperse... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Hosea 1:10

Hosea 1:10There it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.A promise of mercyI. A promise of mercy to israel.1. The Lord in judgment remembers mercy. When God threatens most dreadfully, yet He promises most graciously.2. It is usual when we are in prosperity to forget all threatenings, and when we are in adversity to forget all promises.3. God in the midst of His auger, knows those that trust in Him.4. Not only when God threatens judgments, but when judgments are actually... read more

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