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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Hosea 14 This chapter concludes the book, with gracious promises to repenting sinners, to returning backsliders. It begins with an exhortation to Israel to return to the Lord, seeing he was their God, and they had fallen by sin from prosperity into adversity, temporal and spiritual, Hosea 14:1; and they are directed what to say to the Lord, upon their return to him, both by way of...
John Gill
His branches shall spread,.... As the well rooted cedars in Lebanon; see Numbers 24:6. This respects the propagation of the church of God, and the interest of Christ in the world, as in the first times of the Gospel, and will be in the latter day; when the Gospel shall be spread everywhere; churches set up in all places; the Jews converted, and the fulness of the Gentiles brought in; and these...
Matthew Henry
The strain of this chapter differs from that of the foregoing chapters. Those were generally made up of reproofs for sin and threatenings of wrath; but this is made up of exhortations to repentance and promises of mercy, and with these the prophet closes; for all the foregoing convictions and terrors he had spoken were designed to prepare and make way for these. He wounds that he may heal. The...
Charles H. Spurgeon
His branches shall spread, You shall begin to have influence upon others, and cast a shadow over them for their good. Hos_14:6. And his beauty shall be as the olive tree, His soul, bedewed by grace divine, shall be beautiful as the olive tree, which has an almost indescribable loveliness all its own. Hos_14:6. And his smell as Lebanon. There shall be a gracious flavour about you, who are now so...
Charles H. Spurgeon
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; His children, who were led into mischief by his bad example, shall be drawn back again.
Charles H. Spurgeon
His branches shall spread, This is growing sideways; so the believer spreads his branches by public profession and testimony after having become deeply rooted in the faith and having grown up in love to God, then he begins to spread his shadow over the sons of men by telling- “To sinners round, What a dear Saviour he has found.” Hos_14:6. And his beauty shall be as the olive tree, Which largely...
Charles H. Spurgeon
His branches shall spread, “I will endue him with usefulness and influence. Hos_14:6. And his beauty shall be as the olive tree, “I will load him with fruit. He shall have the beauty that belongs to that fat and oily tree, the olive.” Hos_14:6. And his smell as Lebanon. God can make the foul, polluted sinner to become fragrant to him: “His smell shall be as Lebanon”
Charles H. Spurgeon
His branches shall spread, The dew of the Lord imparts influence to men; it gives them, as it were branches, with which they cast a wide shadow. Hos_14:6. And his beauty shall be as the olive tree, The beauty of fruitfulness. God grant all of us this beauty! Hos_14:6. And his smell as Lebanon. Oh, to stand in holy repute among men, so that there is a fragrance going forth from us, like the sweet...