(3) They "are hot as an oven"; their evil passions are a vicious, burning lust. He cried out for repentance, from the priests and people alike, and called for the entire royal household, to turn from their wicked ways, repent of their spiritual adultery, and return to serving the Lord their God, in spirit and truth. Thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. Hosea 2:2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let … But they had forsaken mercy, and they abandoned mercy because they gave up the knowledge of God and truth (Hosea 4:1). A spirit of harlotry, an attitude of faithlessness, was created in the whole nation, causing many detrimental ramifications and results. “The book of Hosea, like the writings of Isaiah, uses what seem to me almost poetic images. Another fitly compareth them to that Jesuit in Lancashire, who followed by one that found his glove with a desire to restore it him, but pursued inwardly by a guilty conscience, leaps over a hedge, plunges into a clay pit behind it unseen and unthought of, wherein he was drowned. The brief change from third person to second person (‘I will hedge up YOUR way with thorns’ rather than ‘HER way’) is deliberate, the sudden change reflecting God’s anger and the personal nature of His judgment. Thy way - God had before spoken of Israel; now He turns to her, pronouncing judgment upon her; then again He turneth away from her, as not deigning to regard her. Hosea 2:6-7 ICB. He spoke forth the word of the LORD, and applied that word to his life, and to the people and circumstances around him. Depend upon it, that it is by these things you live, and in this is the life of the soul. This chapter contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Hosea son of Beeri, about the impending destruction to Israel and Judah for their impiety and idolatry. God longed to heal “Israel” (also referred to here as “Ephraim” and “Samaria, the capital city). It is observed by one of our chroniclers, that affliction so held in the Saxon kings in the Danish wars, as having little outlets or leisure for ease and luxury, they were made the more pious, just, and careful in their government: otherwise it had been impossible so to have held out. Those who have gone from God by consent, and in a body, drawing one another to sin, should, by consent and in a body, return to him, which will be for his glory, and their good. On the one hand, it communicates poignantly the consequences of infidelity, as well as the gracious, … Continue reading "Commentary on Hosea 1:2-10" Now He speaks to her. That name, originally given as a marker of judgment, is now transformed into a mark of restoration. Hosea 2:6–7 6 Therefore, behold, q I will r hedge up thy way with thorns, And † s make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. behold. . Hosea was a man, but he was a man God used to speak through. Sure it is that if God did not hedge us in (as by his hedge of protection, Isaiah 5:5, so) by his hedge of affliction, as here, no reason would rule us, no cords of kindness would contain us within the bounds of obedience. 2:4-7: 2:6-8 2:6-7 2:8-13: 2:8-15 ... Jer. Ver. I will effectually block up her way, and surround her with great calamities. 16 and 23; Matt. 7:16.. 3 Andersen and Freedman, Hosea, 530.. 4 Garrett, Hosea, Joel, 196.. 5 Millard Erickson (Christian Theology [Grand Rapids: Baker, 1987], 580) observes, “Setting one’s own ideas above God’s revealed Word entails … Colossians 2:6-7 02/15/2004. Transgressed against God.Hosea 7:13. Therefore; because she is so impetuous and shameless in her idolatrous courses, nothing hath, and she resolves nothing shall, hinder her, but she will follow them. Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. Jehovah addresses the adulterous wife: "I will erect impassable barriers that shall pierce and mangle her flesh. This is the third usage of the oven metaphor, as follows: (1) They are like the banked fire ready to flare up at the slightest chance, Hosea 7:4. "And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out … 4). "Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.". But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound. To get what Hosea 7:6 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity. Make a wall â Yea, I will make the calamities of this people as a strong wall, which they cannot break. (1-3) Israel's instability and breach of the covenant. (4-11) Commentary on Hosea 6:1-3 (Read Hosea 6:1-3). Hosea 1:2-10 introduces the metaphor that occupies chapters 1-2 and that resonates throughout the book — a bad marriage that is saved by the loving forgiveness of the faithful partner. 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 place to place: and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths: to go to Dan and Bethel, and worship the calves there, as some; or to go to the Egyptians and Assyrians for help, as Jarchi and Kimchi; though it was by the latter that they were hedged in, and walled and cooped up, when the city of Samaria was besieged three years: rather this respects the straits and difficulties the Jews have been reduced to by the destruction of Jerusalem, and the continuance of them ever since; so that they are not able to offer their daily sacrifice, kill and eat their passover lamb, and perform other rites and ceremonies they used in their own land; which they would fain perform, though abolished by Christ, but are restrained by this hedge and wall, the destruction of their temple and altar, and not being suffered to possess their land; hence they are said to be without a sacrifice and an ephod. Hosea was one of many prophets that warned the nation of Israel against unfaithfulness to the God of their fathers. Either understanding can be harmonized with the various views regarding the grammatical relations and meaning of the context. 6 So I will block your way with a hedge of thorns; And I will raise up a stone wall against her, So that she cannot find her paths. So here, "I will go, and return," &c.; crosses in the both cases being sanctified to produce this effect. (2) They were an oven fire, waiting while preparations are being completed, using the occasion to plan new evil, Hosea 7:6. Therefore - that is, because she said, “I will go after my lovers,” “behold I will hedge up thy ways;” literally, “behold, I hedging.” It expresses an immediate future, or something which, as being fixed in the mind of God, is as certain as if it were actually taking place. The primary meaning of destruction was used by Hosea and here by Joel to express God's reason for the coming Day of the LORD which will bring destruction on His Chosen People (Hos. He once so leapt over the pale, that he broke his bones, and felt the pain of it to his dying day: he brake God’s hedge, and a serpent bit him, Ecclesiastes 10:8; his conscience flew in his face, the guilt whereof is compared by Solomon to the biting of a serpent and sting of an adder, Proverbs 23:32; "he roared for the disquietness of his heart": but better so, than roar in hell, where is punishment without pity, misery without mercy, sorrow without succour (help), crying without comfort, mischief without measure, torment without end and past imagination. From the distress and anguish of exile, in which, although Israel had even more of an outward opportunity to practice idolatry, she learned the worthlessness of all trust in idols, and their utter inability to help."[28]SIZE>. Hosea 2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. 7:13 = "Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! She shall pursue her lovers, but not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them. The Lord’s lion like “roar” will someday call His exiled people home, and they will, like swift birds, return to their land. SPECIAL TOPIC: 'OLAM "in righteousness" The root of this term means "a measuring reed." 15. 5:22-33; Rev. from the Egyptian, thy present patron and protector; "and thy hands upon thy head," which was the gesture of women in great sorrow, 2 Samuel 13:19 : "for the Lord hath rejected thy confidence, and thou shalt not prosper in them," Jeremiah 2:33; Jeremiah 2:36-37. "If the sinner's way were plain, and the soul still had temporal prosperity, after it had turned away from its Creator, scarcely or never could it be recalled, nor would it "hear the voice behind it," warning it. Hosea 2:6, ESV: "Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths." 6Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way. f. And they shall say, “You are my God!” With this, the restoration would be complete. Hosea 6:5 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain. Osée 2:6 Interlinéaire • Osée 2:6 Multilingue • Oseas 2:6 Espagnol • Osée 2:6 Français • Hosea 2:6 Allemand • Osée 2:6 Chinois • Hosea 2:6 Anglais • Bible Apps • Bible Hub Version Louis Segond 1910 La Bible David Martin 1744 Darby Bible courtesy of CCEL.org. Hosea 2:6-7Expanded Bible (EXB) 6 So I will •block her road [or fence/hedge her in] with thornbushes; I will •build a wall around her [wall her in] so she cannot find her way. They did not turn, therefore all this came upon them; and it is written for admonition to us. (1-3) Israel's instability and breach of the covenant. 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 place to … 15 # Josh 7.24–26 I will give back to her the vineyards she had and make Trouble Valley a door of hope. 7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my … Hosea Chapter 2 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. Hosea 2:6–7 6 Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way. The Lord ’ s Discipline Will Bring Israel Back. Assyria, the rod of God’s wrath, the staff in his hand, Isaiah 10:5, yea, the hedge of his making, hemmed them in by strait sieges, both at Samaria and Jerusalem: till at length the Romans came, and walling them about, till they were forced to yield, took away both their place and their nation, according to that they feared, John 11:48, and caused to cease the daily sacrifice, which they would needs till then hold out in opposition to the gospel. with difficulties and distresses. Hosea 7 – The Oven, the Bread, and the Dove A. But when adversity befalls it, and tribulation or temporal difficulties overtake it in its course, then it remembers the Lord its God." "In lovingkindness" SPECIAL TOPIC: LOVINGKINDNESS I will hedge up thy way with thorns - I will put it out of your power to escape the judgments I have threatened; and, in spite of all your attachment to your idols, you shall find that they can give you neither bread, nor water, nor wool, nor flax, nor oil, nor drink. Hosea began service as a prophet about 750 B.C. A way may be found through a "hedge of thorns," although with pain and suffering; through a stone "wall" even a strong man cannot burst a way. So I will block her road with thornbushes. (h) I will punish you so that you may then test whether your idols can help you, and bring you into such straightness that you will have no lust to play the harlot. Hosea said he would oppose Gomer as though he put a hedge of thorns or a wall across her path so she would turn aside from her ways. The path of evil shall be a path of thorns.” She was determined to go her own way. The king, princes, and people, shall be involved in its conflagration, Hosea 7:7. 2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. The primary meaning of destruction was used by Hosea and here by Joel to express God's reason for the coming Day of the LORD which will bring destruction on His Chosen People (Hos. And make a wall; another allusion to the method men take to keep in the wildest cattle, which would break through hedges, but cannot break through walls. The metaphor of Gomer, her harlotry, and Hosea’s unconditional love are tangible representations of God’s message. Yea, thou shalt go forth from him," i.e. KING JAMES VERSION (KJV) TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT. So in the book of Judges the ever-recurring history is, they forsook God; He delivered them into the hands of their enemies; they cried unto Him; He sent them a deliverer. But when adversity befalls it, and tribulation or temporal difficulties overtake it in its course, then it remembers the Lord its God.” So it was with Israel in Egypt. with difficulties and distresses. Rebel against God. Behold; take notice of it, thou lewd woman, and all that stand by. HOSEA 7:6. 2:7 Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch 6 them; she will seek them, but she will not find them. then—before Israel's apostasy, under Jeroboam. ii. The LORD would relate to His people as their God, and His people would relate to Him as His people. # 2.16 … "put away" BDB 693, KB 747, Hiphil JUSSIVE) the activity (i.e., idolatry) that has led to the divorce case. Hosea 2:6-7 The Unsuccessful Pursuit; Hosea 2:5-7 The Backslider's Way Hedged Up; Hosea 2:8,9 God Dishonored in His Gifts to Men; Hosea 2:10 The Exposure of Folly ; Hosea 2:11 Mirth Turned into Mourning; Hosea 2:12, 13 Prosperity Turned into Adversity; Hosea 2:14-16 Restoration to God; Hosea 2:17-20 The Good Time Coming; Hosea 2:21-23 The Universe Governed in the Interests of Humanity; Hosea … The metaphor is full of both possibilities and problems. A heart like an oven. That Jehovah had given the land to His people, was impressed upon the minds of the people for all time, together with the recollection of the mighty acts of the Lord, by the manner in which Israel had been put in possession of Canaan; and not only had Moses again and again reminded the Israelites most solemnly that it was He who gave rain to the land, and multiplied and blessed its fruitfulness and its fruits (compare, for example, Deuteronomy 7:13; Deuteronomy 11:14-15), but this was also perpetually called to their remembrance by the law concerning the offering of the first-fruits at the feasts. Hosea 2:6 Parallel Verses ... that she shall not find her paths. 13. Spoken lies against God. See. the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished upon her silver. Out upon it, I am the worse to think of it. Thorn hedges would block the way, forming a wall which would prevent her from finding her path. “Thorns” then may be the pains to the flesh, with which God visits sinful pleasures, so that the soul, if it would break through to them, is held back and torn; the wall may mean, that all such sinful joys shall be cut off altogether, as by bereavement, poverty, sickness, failure of plans, etc. Here is the first of a triple strategy God will use in order to restrain, punish, and allure the harlot (Hosea 2:6,9,14) with the purpose of bringing her back to himself. David himself, before he "was afflicted, I went astray," saith he: but God brought him home again by weeping cross. The word of the LORD: Plainly said, Hosea was a prophet. What mistake did Israel make regarding her blessings – 2:8,9? Without can not be used by it self, meaning that it has to be minimum one more condition included (all/at least one,etc) all: "fish", without: "bread", will search for verses that contains "fish" but NOT "bread" start: search for verses that contains words that start with the search words KING JAMES VERSION (KJV) TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT. John 19:1-5. So God had fenced up Job’s way that he could not pass, Job 19:8, he had thrown the cross in his way, to stop him in his career. And she shall be led so deep into captivity, as never to find the road back to her own land. The name Hosea (meaning 'salvation', 'he saves' or 'he helps'), seems to have been common, being derived from a related verb meaning salvation.Numbers 13:16 states that Hosea was the original name of Joshua, son of Nun until Moses gave him the longer, theophoric name Yehoshua (Hebrew: יְהוֹשֻֽׁעַ ) incorporating an abbreviated form of the Tetragrammaton. “I escaped not Thy scourges,” says Augustine, as to his pagan state, “for what mortal can? and make a wall.âIn accordance with most Hebrew texts, the literal rendering is, wall up her wall. Ignorance of the fact that Jehovah was the giver of these blessings, was a sin. Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. Amos 2:6-7. There is a distinct shift of the meaning throughout these verses. Hosea 8 is the eighth chapter of the Book of Hosea in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. By habba'al we are not simply to understand the Canaanitish or Phoenician Baal in the stricter sense of the word, whose worship Jehu had exterminated from Israel, though not entirely, as is evident from the allusion to an Asherah in Samaria in the reign of Jehoahaz (2 Kings 13:6); but Baal is a general expression for all idols, including the golden calves, which are called other gods in 1 Kings 14:9, and compared to actual idols. For when the Lord is working by the sovereignty of his grace, to deter the soul he is bringing to himself, if one process will not accomplish the purpose, another shall. 6. And why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? Shall be … Hosea 5:13 – When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. Then shall she say, I will return to my first husband, Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. The high places would become a wilderness, because she would have been taken far away. 7 . Jeremiah prayeth, "Correct me, O Lord," Jeremiah 10:24; and Luther to like purpose, Feri Domine, feri clementer: Strike, Lord, strike, it shall be a mercy. She will look for them, but she won’t find them. An exhortation to repentance. pause, and enquire what you know in your own heart of these things. These possessions were the foundation of the nation's wealth, through which gold and silver were multiplied. I will block her path with a wall to make her lose her way. Lamentations 3:7, Lamentations 3:9. thy way. Hosea 2:7 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Hosea 2:7, NIV: "She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them.Then she will say, 'I will go back to my husband as at first, for then I was better off than now.'" Ver. Egypt proved but a broken reed. 5 . do not overlook here how Jesus bore this eminently in his own sacred person, when he became the sinner's surety. Hosea 6:7 Or Like Adam; or Like human beings See Psalms 75:6, Isaiah 29:19; Isaiah 19:11-13. But she won’t catch up to them. Hosea 2:6. And God, when he sees that men confess not immediately their sins, defends as it were his own cause, as one pleading before a judge. Paths. Here עשׂה ל has rather the general meaning "apply to anything," just as in 2 Chronicles 24:7, where it occurs in a perfectly similar train of thought. Maginus tells us, that in Lithuania the men are such fools, that they allow their wives to have their stallions, whom they call Connubii adiutores, and prize them far above all their acquaintance. The Lord raiseth perplexities in the soul, to embarrass and entangle the poor sinner in the wild and mad career the sinner is pursuing. 6. Hosea 5:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain. But when a husband understands that his wife plays the wanton, he watches her more closely, notices all her ways day and night. 5 . Corn, must, and oil are specified with the definite article as being the fruits of the land, which Israel received from year to year. "Thorns" then may be the pains to the flesh, with which God visits sinful pleasures, so that the soul, if it would break through to them, is held back and torn; the wall may mean, that all such sinful joys shall be cut off altogether, as by bereavement, poverty, sickness, failure of plans, etc. (4-11) Commentary on Hosea 6:1-3 (Read Hosea 6:1-3). Commentary on Hosea 12:7-14 (Read Hosea 12:7-14) Ephraim became a merchant: the word also signifies a Canaanite. 1. and concluded his work about 722 B.C., shortly before the Assyrian conquest of Israel (the ten tribes that constituted the Northern Kingdom). "God hedgeth with thorns the ways of the elect, when they find prickles in the things of time, which they desire. But where to find such, I could not discover, save in Thee, O Lord, who teachest by sorrow, and woundest us, to heal, and killest us, lest we die from Thee" (Conf. For Thou wert ever with me, mercifully rigorous, and with most bitter alloy all my unlawful pleasures, that I might seek pleasure without alloy. Hosea’s third child, a son, was named Lo-Ammi, meaning “Not My People” (Hosea 1:9). 7 She will •run after [pursue] her lovers, but she won’t catch them. 7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; 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 me than now. As Halley (and many others) have pointed out, "Some of this language applies to Hosea's family, some to the nation, some to both, the literal and figurative alternating. May 27, 2019 on Prayer by Stasi Eldredge. But understanding that it was the custom of that country, he sent him home again without further hurt. "Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? (for # tn The particle כִּי (ki) introduces a parenthetical explanatory clause (however, cf. Hosea 2:2-7. Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my first husband. She does not follow in the path God has made for her. Fled from God. And make a wall] Macerabo maceriam, I will wall a wall, and immure her: as jealous husbands do their wives whom they mistrust. make a wall = Hebrew wall a (stone) wall. The Lord ’ s Discipline Will Bring Israel Back. And as thorns and briars, which were in the curse pronounced on sin at the first, are suited to this purpose, the Lord will hedge up the sinner's way with them. Then she will say, “I will go back 8 to my husband, 9 . Complete Concise Chapter Contents. Hosea 5:7 Or Now their New Moon feasts / will devour them and; Hosea 5:8 Beth Aven means house of wickedness (a derogatory name for Bethel, which means house of God). Hosea 7:13. That she shall not find her paths] Those highways to hell, wherein she hath hitherto tired herself by trotting after her lovers. 2:7 Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch 6 them; she will seek them, but she will not find them. So swift and certain should be her judgments. 7:13 = "Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! She will run after her lovers. .âShe may anticipate in her exile closer proximity to her idol-lovers, but in respect of national prosperity or religious satisfaction she will make complete mistake. The aid which she sought from foreigners shall prove vain. Hosea 7:14. It is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. I will make a wall that she shall not find her paths] q.d. 7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; 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 me than now. You and I have found many a thorny path to our feet in our pilgrimage; but none but the ever blessed Jesus was crowned with thorns, as if to intimate that He should be pre-eminent in suffering, as He is pre-eminent in grace and glory. In a word, God here shows that he could not do otherwise than punish so great an obstinacy in the people, as there appeared no other remedy. Hedge up . . compass thee in with wars and other calamities, which shall wound and pierce thee, that though thou love thy sinful courses, and wilt follow them, thou shalt have little pleasure in them. Yahweh would make it perilously difficult for Israel to pursue idols. Then she will think, ‘I might as well return to my husband, for I was better off with him than I am now.’ NLT: New Living Translation . 16 And it will come about on that day,” declares the Lord, They had applied their gold and silver to Baal, however, not merely by using them for the preparation of idols, but by employing them in the maintenance and extension of the worship of Baal, or even by regarding them as gifts of Baal, and thus confirming themselves in the zealous worship of that god. Hosea 7:13-15 - Notes from Moody's Bible God’s seven-fold charge against Ephraim. Reader! This thought is carried out still further in Hosea 2:7 : "And she will pursue her lovers, and not overtake them; and seek them, and not find them: and will say, I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now." Her paths â Wherein thou didst go when thou wentest to Egypt, or Syria for help; but by my judgments, and thine enemies power, thou shalt be so guarded, thou shalt not find how to send to them for relief. The shocking nature of Hosea's marriage is … This people, to have a stake in store, howsoever the dice chanced to turn, sought to join friendship as soon with the Assyrian as with the Egyptian, and so to secure themselves: but it would not do. The shocking nature of Hosea's marriage is difficult for us to comprehend. So God had fenced up Job’s way that he could not pass, Job 19:8, he had thrown the cross in his way, to stop him in his career. Then she will say, “I will go back 8 to my husband, 9 . God is the standard by which all things are judged. (7 She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.” 8. Wall her in so that she chases after her lovers would be to! 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