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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Hosea 2 This chapter is an explanation of the former, proceeding upon the same argument in more express words. The godly Israelites are here called upon to lay before the body of the people their idolatry, ingratitude, obstinacy, and ignorance of the God of their mercies; and to exhort them to repentance, lest they should be...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
The scope of this chapter seems to be much the same with that of the foregoing chapter, and to point at the same events, and the causes of them. As there, so here, I. God, by the prophet, discovers sin to them, and charges it home upon them, the sin of their idolatry, their spiritual whoredom, their serving idols and forgetting God and their...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Plead with your mother, plead,.... The congregation of Israel, as the Targum; the body of the Jewish nation, which, with respect to individuals, was as a mother to her children; see Matthew 21:37, that is, lay before her, her sin in rejecting the Messiah, the Head and Husband of his true church and people; endeavour to convince her of it; reprove...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born,.... Alluding to the case of an infant when born, which comes naked into the world; and referring to the state and condition of the Israelites in Egypt, which was the time of their nativity, as a people and church; see Ezekiel 16:4, and when they were in a state of servitude and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And I will not have mercy upon her children,.... The posterity of the Jews in succeeding ages, until the time of their conversion comes; they persisting in the sins of their forefathers, filling up the measure of their iniquities; remaining in their obstinate rejection of the Messiah, and in the same impenitence and unbelief, and having his blood...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For their mother hath played the harlot,.... Or committed idolatry; which is the reason why she is to be pleaded with, and why the Lord will not own her as his wife, or be a husband to her; and why she is to be exhorted to put away her whoredoms from her; and was in danger of all the above evils coming upon her, continuing in the same practice;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. She attributed to false gods the gifts which God had given to her. This was great ingratitude to God, and a high insult to his holy majesty.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns,.... As fields and vineyards are fenced with thorn hedges to keep out beasts; or rather as closes and fields are fenced to keep cattle in, from going out and straying elsewhere; which may be expressive of afflictions, aud particularly wars among them, that they could not stir out and go from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. That is what God does to sinners whom he means to save. He will not let them take their own course. He gives them thorny trials which hedge up their way. He puts an obstacle in their path, perhaps some sickness or poverty. When men are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. God will cause sin to be painful; he will make the way of it difficult; he will do everything to prevent the sinner running in it: “She shall not find her paths.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And she shall follow after her lovers,.... Before mentioned; that is, in her affections and desires, with great eagerness and earnestness, as men pursue what they are bent upon; otherwise, being hedged in and walled up, she could not go after them in a proper sense: but she shall not overtake them; they fleeing from her, and she pent up: she shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: Thus sinners go after the pleasures of the world, and the pleasures run away from them. They make one thing their god, and then another; and they put out all their strength to attain the object of their ambition; and God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; They cannot find satisfaction in sinful pleasure; that which once they easily obtained, they shall no longer be able to procure. Hos_2:7. And she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil,.... This is a reason, not of her resolution to return to her first husband, but to go after lovers, and of her ascribing these things to them, Hosea 2:5, and why the Lord would behave towards her as he determined to do, Hosea 2:6, this ignorance was wilful and affected, and therefore...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness. God claims the blessings of providence as his own;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. It is a sad sin when we take God’s mercies, and use them in rebellion against him. Just think of it, — the very gifts which Jehovah gave to these people, they presented in sacrifice to Baal; and there are men, who are in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore will I return, and take away,.... Or, "take away again" (k); an usual Hebraism: my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof; for though these are the gifts of God to men for their use, and to dispose of for the good of others; yet he retains his property in them, and can and will call them to an account for their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness. And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And now will I discover her lewdness in the lovers,.... The people, her lovers, as the Targum; which is by many understood of the Egyptians and Assyrians; but rather means the Romans, whom the Jews courted as their friends: though it seems best to interpret it in a more general way, that the sin and folly of the Jews in rejecting Christ, and...