Hosea 14:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. ”

• Hosea 14:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  I will heal their backsliding - God, in answer, promises to “heal” that wound of their souls, from where every other evil came, their fickleness and unsteadfastness. Hitherto, this had been the c...

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• Hosea 14:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (e) I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. (e) He declares how ready God is to receive those that do repent.

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• Hosea 14:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Hosea 14:1-9 (Heb. Hosea 14:2-9 ). Israel's Repentance and Yahweh's Forgiveness. The section begins with a passionate appeal to Israel to repent and confess his sin ( Hosea 14:1 f.). A promis...

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• Hosea 14:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  back-sliding. Compare Hosea 11:7 ; Jeremiah 5:6 ; Jeremiah 14:7 . him: i.e. Israel.

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• Hosea 14:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  God here confirms what we have observed respecting his gratuitous reconciliation, nor is the repetition useless; for as men are disposed to entertain vain and false hopes, so nothing is more di...

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• Hosea 14:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1176 THE BLESSINGS THAT PENITENTS MAY EXPECT Hosea 14:4 . I will heal their backsliding; I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him . MEN who have never seen the...

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• Hosea 14:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. I will heal their backsliding - Here is the answer of God to these prayers and resolutions. See its par...

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• Hosea 14:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Freely— Are good works then nothing, you will say? "Is there no place at all for them in the doctrine of repentance? I answer, that hitherto the discourse hath been about remission of sins, and the...

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• Hosea 14:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely - God's gracious reply to their self-con...

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• Hosea 14:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Israel will Surely Repent and be Forgiven Hosea makes a touching final appeal for repentance. He assures Israel of God's mercy, and closes with a description of the blessings that will follow the...

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• Hosea 14:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Heal... Love. — If the foregoing be the offering of penitent lips, then the majestic reply of Jehovah is full of superlative grace.

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• Hosea 14:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE FINAL ARGUMENT Hosea 12:1-14 - Hosea 14:1 THE impassioned call with which the last chapter closed was by no means an assurance of salvation: "How am I to give thee, up, Ephraim? how am I...

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• Hosea 14:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “I Will Heal Their Backsliding” Hosea 13:15-16 ; Hosea 14:1-9 The prophet here ransacks the world of nature for phrases sufficiently expressive of his transports of joy. The whole world seems...

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• Hosea 14:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The cycle closes with the final call of the prophet, and the promise of Jehovah. The call was to the people to return, because by iniquity they had fallen. The method suggested was to bring the words...

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• Hosea 14:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Here we have the second division of the Chapter, in a Cluster of the richest promises. Reader! contemplate the Lord Jesus in all these precious things, (for He is the speaker), and oh! for grace, tha...

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• Hosea 14:4 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  BACKSLIDING AND ITS CURE ‘I will heal their backsliding.’ Hosea 14:4 In the English Bible the word ‘backsliding’ is found fifteen times, and represents in English several words in the origin...

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• Hosea 14:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  I will heal their backslidings ,.... This and what follows is the Lord's answer to the above prayer; and this clause particularly is an answer to that petition, "take away all iniquity", Hosea 14:2...

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• Hosea 14:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. Ver. 4. I will heal their backslidings ] Relapses, we know, are dangerous, and apostasy little less...

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• Hosea 14:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  I will heal their backsliding I will deliver them from a backsliding heart and way, and remove those judgments they have brought upon themselves thereby. The Lord says, I will heal , &c., a us...

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• Hosea 14:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Assurance of Mercy; Repentance of Ephraim. B. C. 720.       4 I will heal their backsliding,...

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• Hosea 14:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I will heal: it is a usual metaphor in Scripture; sin is our disease. God is the Physician who healeth us, Psalms 103:3 Jeremiah 3:22 ; and he doth it through Christ, in whom this promise is m...

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• Hosea 14:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Israel Are Called On To Return To YHWH With The Assurance That When They Do So YHWH Will Restore Them And Love Them Freely, And They Then Learn Of All The Good Things That He Has In Store For Them A...

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• Hosea 14:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.] Hosea 14:4 . ] Promise of mercy follows. First heal all injury caused by apostasy. Freely ] Gratuitously and with perfect spontaneity ( Ezekiel 16:60-63 ). “The word means im...

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• Hosea 14:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  According to the heading of this chapter, we have here «an exhortation to repentance,» and «a promise of God's blessing.» Hosea 14:1 . O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen...

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• Hosea 14:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hosea 14:2 . So will we render the calves of our lips. The fruit of our lips, in worship, in praise, and in all holy obedience. The sacrifices of thanksgiving are pleasing to God. Hosea 14:3 ....

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• Hosea 14:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  I will heal their backsliding. The awful stale of backsliders In the history of the Israelites there is no feature more striking than their frequent rebellions and backslidings. It is amazing t...

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• Hosea 14:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Hosea 14:1 The foregoing part of this book abounds with denunciations of punishment; this closing chapter superabounds with promises of pardon. Wave after wave of threatened wrat...

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• Hosea 14:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A Final Exhortation to Return, with a Promise of Redemption. After having shown the apostate Israelites in various ways in what their guilt consisted, the Lord here once more appeals to them to re...

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• Hosea 14:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Corinthians 5:19-21 ; 2 Timothy 1:9 ; Deuteronomy 7:7 ; Deuteronomy 7:8 ; Ephesians 1:6 ; Ephesians 2:4-9 ; Exodus 15:26 ; Hosea 11:7 ; Isaiah 12:1 ; Isaiah 57:18 ; Jeremiah 14:7 ; Jere...

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