Hosea 1:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. ”

Hosea 1:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel - The valley of Jezreel is a beautiful and a broad valley or plain, stretching, from West to East, from Mount Carmel and the sea to the Jor...
Hosea 1:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And it shall come to pass at that (g) day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. (g) When the measure of their iniquity is full, and I will take vengeance and destroy all the...
Hosea 1:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea's Marriage: a Parable of Yahweh's Relations with Israel. The prophet receives a Divine command to take ( i.e. marry) a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom. The reason given for this st...
Hosea 1:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

at that day: i.e. the day of 2 Kings 18:11 . bow. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of the Adjunct), App-6, for the armies of Israel.
Hosea 1:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

This verse was intentionally added; for the Israelites were so inflated with their present good fortune, that they laughed at the judgement denounced. They indeed knew that they were well furni...
Hosea 1:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. In the valley of Jezreel - This also is supposed to relate either to some signal defeat of the Isr...
Hosea 1:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

That I will break the bow of Israel, &c.— St. Jerome says, the Israelites were overthrown by the Assyrians in a pitched battle in the plain of Jezrael or Jezreel. But of any such battle we have...
Hosea 1:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. I will break the bow of Israel - the prowess ( Jeremiah 49:35 : cf. Genesis 49:24 , "His...
Hosea 1:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea's Marriage and its Lessons 1. A general heading. Hosea 1:2-9 . The prophet's marriage with Gomer, the birth of her three children, and the symbolical meaning attached to them. Hosea 1:1...
Hosea 1:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. — Jehu was to be punished for the assassination of Ahab’s descendants. Though the destruction of the house of Ahab was divinely appointed, i...
Hosea 1:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE STORY OF THE PRODIGAL WIFE Hosea 1:1-11 ; Hosea 2:1-23 ; Hosea 3:1-5 IT has often been remarked that, unlike the first Doomster of Israel, Israel's first Evangelist was one of themselves,...
Hosea 1:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

God Gathers the Outcast Hosea 1:1-11 The story of Hosea is a pathetic one. He felt impressed that it was his duty to take as wife one whose earlier life had been unchaste. From this marriage re...
Hosea 1:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The statement with which this prophecy opens, "When the Lord spake at the first," is a declaration by Hosea long after the events. Looking back, he understood that the impulse which resulted in the h...
Hosea 1:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Some have thought, that what is here said of Hosea, was in vision, and not in reality. But others have deemed it to be literally as is here stated. In either sense, the doctrine is the same. God inte...
Hosea 1:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And it shall come to pass at that day ,.... When the Lord shall take vengeance on the family of Jehu, and deprive them of the kingdom of Israel, and shall punish the idolatrous kings that succeed:...
Hosea 1:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. Ver. 5. I will break the bow of Israel ] Though it may seem to have a back of steel, and though...
Hosea 1:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break , &c. This entire abolition of the kingdom of the ten tribes shall take effect at the time when I break the bow, &c. Here the breaki...
Hosea 1:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prophet's Marriage; Threatenings against Israel; Intimation of Mercy to Judah. B. C. 768. ...
Hosea 1:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

It shall come to pass; most certainly this shall be effected. At that day; when my vengeance hath overtaken the house of Jehu, when his great-great-grandson shall be slain. I will break; weaken,...
Hosea 1:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea's Wife And Children Are To Be A Sign Of The Unfaithfulness Of Israel ( Hosea 1:2 to Hosea 2:5 a). There is no reason in chapter 1 for seeing Gomer's ‘whoredom' as being anything other tha...
Hosea 1:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Hosea 1:3 . Gom.] The name of a nation ( Genesis 10:2-3 ); symbolically G. = completion; i.e. completely given up to whoredom. Dib .] = daughter of grape-cakes, indicating pleas...
Hosea 1:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 1:1 . Hosea, the son of Beeri. The prophets named their parents, not only to distinguish themselves from others of that name, but to mark that they were sons of prophets, or that their fathe...
Hosea 1:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

I will break the bow. A nation’s humiliation through its army This verse was intentionally added; for the Israelites were so inflated with their present good fortune, that they laughed at the j...
Hosea 1:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Hosea 1:1 The word of the Lord that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri. The prophets are divided into the former ( rishonim, Zechariah 1:4 ) prophets and the later prophets. T...
Hosea 1:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Israel to be Rejected on Account of its Idolatry
Hosea 1:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 2:18 ; Jeremiah 49:34 ; Jeremiah 49:35 ; Jeremiah 51:56 ; Joshua 17:16 ; Judges 6:33 ; Psalms 37:15 ; Psalms 46:9
Hosea 1:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

At that day — When my vengeance hath overtaken the house of Jehu. Break — Weaken and by degrees quite break. The bow — All their warlike provision, power and skill. Jezreel — In this valley it is p...

Hosea 1:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hosea 1:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Hosea 1:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 1:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Hosea 1:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 1:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Hosea 1:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Hosea 1:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Hosea 1:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 1:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hosea 1:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Hosea 1:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Hosea 1:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hosea 1:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hosea 1:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hosea 1:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hosea 1:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 1:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hosea 1:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hosea 1:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 1:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Hosea 1:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 1:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Hosea 1:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Hosea 1:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hosea 1:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 1:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes