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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 stripped of all their good things, and be brought into...
John Gill
And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord,.... The Gospel day, the times of the Gospel dispensation, the latter part of them; at the time of the conversion of the Jews, and the bringing in of the fulness of the Gentiles; at the time when God will allure and persuade them to seek the Messiah, and they shall turn to him; when he shall speak comfortably to them, and give them a door of hope, and...
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 obligations to him, ver. 1, 2, 5, 8. II. He threatens...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. “Baali” means “my lord” in the sense of domination; but God will not seem to us any more like a domineering governor, as we once thought him; but we shall call him “Ishi”, “my husband.” There shall be such nearness of love, such confidence of hope, between the restored soul and her God,...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. “Thou shalt call me, My man, my husband,” — a name of sweet endearment, “and shalt call me no more Baali,” that is, “my lord, my lordly husband,” for the Lord’s love shall not be galling to thee, but it shall sweetly and gently rule thee. Oh, what a sweet change this is, when we no longer...