“ Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. ”
Now when she had weaned ... - Eastern women very commonly nursed their children two, or even three (2 Macc. 7:27) years. The weaning then of the child portrays a certain interval of time between...
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...
The weaning the Prophet mentions here is by some understood allegorically; as though he said, that the people would for a time be deprived of prophecies, and of the priesthood, and of other...
Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. Now, when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah - said to complete the symbolical picture, not having any special signification as to Isr...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
We have here a further illustration of the doctrine. Israel had forfeited all pretensions to their covenant interest in Jehovah; and if it be preserved, it is not because of their deservings, but on...
Now when she had weaned Loruhamah ,.... That is, when Gomer had weaned her daughter of this name, Hosea 1:6 . This some interpret of the people of Israel being deprived of the word and ordinances,...
Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. Ver. 8. Now when she had weaned Loruhamah ] That is, after that the patience of God had waited and long looked for their conversio...
Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived , &c. The last child is a son, and the daughter was weaned before the woman conceived him. “A child, when it is weaned,” says St. Jerome, “leave...
Temporary Rejection of Israel; Promises of Mercy. B. C. 768. 8 Now when she had weaned...
Though some wrest the words to an allegorical sense, I think the prophet keeps the decorum in the similitude, and therefore, as women ordinarily conceive not whilst they give suck, so this Gomer wean...
‘Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.' The weaning of a child would take two or three years, giving Israel time to consider their ways, so that the next child to be bor...
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 1:1 . 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...
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...
Israel to be Rejected on Account of its Idolatry
1 Samuel 1:22