What should we learn hereby, but that it hangs upon our own will whether God suspend the judgment or no? So our Saviour to those refractory Jews in the Gospel, "I would have gathered thee as the hen gathereth her chickens," I would, but thou wouldst not: therefore they shall "lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee." At first sight it seems very dreadful, that God takes away the hope of mercy; but we ought to confine this sentence to that time during which it pleased God to cast away his people. The fact that the children are specially mentioned after and along with the mother, when in reality mother and children are one, serves to give greater keenness to the threat, and guards against that carnal security, in which individuals imagine that, inasmuch as they are free from the sin and guilt of the nation as a whole, they will also be exempted from the threatened punishment. : "To call them 'children of whoredoms' is all one with saying, that they too are incorrigible or unchangeable. And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they. Fourth, a son is born to Gomer. 16–17), and three oracles of salvation (vv. Therefore, "Their status becomes that of offspring born to a harlot. And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. Hosea 2:4 (GNT) I will not show mercy to her children; they are the children of a shameless prostitute. my peopleAmmi,” and to your sisters, “#I.e. "And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out … The Lord instructed His faithful prophet, Hosea, to marry an unfaithful woman. God is not of himself μισανθρωπος, a hater of mankind, but the contrary, φιλανθρωπος, Titus 3:4. What Does Hosea 1:4 Mean? Hosea’s message contains much condemnation, both national and individual, but at the same time, he poignantly portrays the love of God toward His people with passionate emotion. And I will not have mercy on her children, For they be the children of whoredoms —, For their mother hath played the harlot —, She that conceived them hath done shamefully —. Furthermore Hosea threatened to have no compassion on the children that Gomer had given birth to in her harlotry, children of other fathers. children. These appear to be children in addition to the three named earlier, but they could refer to the last two named. I will not have mercy. They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images. The book of Hosea stands first in the division of the Bible called the Book of the Twelve (in the Apocrypha cf. 12:10,11), ‹not being ignorant that thy were a naughty generation, and that their malice was bred in them, and that their cogitation would never be changed, for it was a cursed seed from the beginning.” All this is here expressed briefly by this word, “that they are the children of whoredoms,” meaning that their “malice” too was inbred, and that they, as much as the Ammorite and Hittite, were a “cursed seed.” Nor yet, in so speaking, did he blame the nature which God created, but he vehemently reproves the abuse of nature, that malice, which cleaves to nature but was no part of it, was by custom changed into nature.”, (compare Hosea 2:2):--“Let her put away her whoredoms,” etc. Hosea 2:4, KJV: "And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms." * The Lord speaks of Israel, still using the example of Hosea’s wife. That name, originally given as a marker of judgment, is now transformed into a mark of restoration. Why, again, after pronouncing sentence, doth God counsel amendment? NIV Devotional Bible for Women--hardcover, jacketed printed. ... 2. Hosea 2:4. Rather than slaying the guilty, steps would follow to restore the fallen to their former state. Hosea 2:4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [be] the children of whoredoms. But I will have no mercy upon her children: for they are the children of fornications, i.e. (George Hutcheson. A'. Hosea 4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. Threatening and pleading (compare Hosea 2:2):--“Let her put away her whoredoms,” etc. They endorse the degradation of their mother. By swearing — False swearing seems to be here chiefly intended, which is here, as it is also elsewhere, joined with lying and stealing; because, in the Jewish courts of justice, men that were suspected of theft were obliged to purge themselves by an oath; and they often ventured to forswear themselves, rather than discover the truth. This was no mere parable or vision but an actual command to enter a literal marriage that would vividly portray God's perspective on Israel. In the NIV translation, the omitting of the word 'him' leads to speculation as to whether Lo-Ruhamah was the daughter of Hosea or one of Gomer's lovers. And I will not have mercy upon her children] Lo, here another "and" to those four before; and more dreadful than the rest. But he as boldly telleth them, that they are a bastardly brood, yea, a serpentine seed; and that they were of their father the devil, John 8:44. for they be the children of whoredoms; begotten and born in whoredom, spurious and illegitimate; or that commit whoredoms; imitate their parents; are guilty of the same vices; a generation of vipers. But the more they were called, the more they went away from me. It is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. 1 Hubbard, Hosea, 215.. 2 See the suggested pointings of the Hebrew consonant proposed emendations in BHS.. 3 Garrett, Hosea, Joel, 249. Oh, this pure wrath, this judgment without mercy, must needs be very heavy: when it is once grown to hatred, there is little hope: Hosea 9:15, "All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them." I was like one who lifts a little child to the three named earlier but. In addition to the three named earlier, but the contrary, φιλανθρωπος, Titus 3:4 '84 edition speaks. 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