“ Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi;a and to your sisters, Ruhamah. ”
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi - that is, “My people, and to your sisters, Ruhamah,” i. e., “beloved or tenderly pitied.” The words form a climax of the love of God. First, the people scattered...
Say ye unto your (a) brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. (a) Seeing that I have promised you deliverance, it remains that you encourage one another to embrace this promise, considering tha...
Hosea 2:1 . brethren and sisters: read with LXX, brother and sister. The whole passage is clearly out of place, and may be a later insertion. Still the language is not inharmonious with Hosea's d...
Ammi . My People. Ruhamah . Pitied One.
The Prophet having spoken of the people’s restoration, and promised that God would some time receive into favour those whom he had before rejected, now exhorts the faithful mutually to stir up...
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi - I prefer the interpretation of these proper names. Say ye unto your brethren, My People; and, to your...
Say ye, &c.— Several intepreters join this verse with the foregoing chapter. "When the great day of Jezreel, or the restoration of the Jews, shall be accomplished, you may alter your manner of...
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. Israel's spiritual fornication, and her threatened punishment:...
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 2:1-23 ; Hosea 3:1-5 THE SIN AGAINST LOVE Hosea 1:1-11 ; Hosea 2:1-23 ; Hosea 3:1-5 ; Hosea 4:11 ff.; Hosea 9:10 ff.; Hosea 11:8 f. The Love of God is a terrible thing-that is...
the Bitter Sin of Wandering from God Hosea 2:1-13 Hosea is represented as having exhausted his expostulations upon his faithless wife. He has tried every arrow in love's quiver, but in vain; so...
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...
CONTENTS We have here a most interesting Chapter, describing the Lord's gracious dealings with his people, in bringing them from a state of sin to salvation. Hosea 2:1 I beg the Reader to observ...
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. These words are to be considered either in connection with the latter part of the preceding chapter, and as directed to the sons of th...
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. Ver. 1. Say unto your brethren, Ammi ] Besides the public preaching of this gracious promise, Hosea 1:10 , "There it shall be said...
Say to your brethren Many interpreters consider this verse as being connected with the preceding chapter, thus: When that general restoration of the Jewish nation shall take place, you may change y...
The Sinfulness of Israel. B. C. 764. 1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sist...
HOSEA CHAPTER 2 The people are exhorted to forsake idolatry, which is threatened with severe judgments, Hosea 2:1-13 . God allureth them with promises of reconciliation, Hosea 2:14-23 . In th...
“Say you to your brothers, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.” Note how the names of the three children have been repeated, combining Hosea 1:11 , with its mention of Jezreel, and this verse with...
CRITICAL NOTES .— Hosea 2:2 . Plead ] Jehovah makes the demand, urges individual Israelites to reason with the mother , i.e. the nation viewed as one. The children were seduced, in danger of p...
Hosea 2:1 . Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi, that is, my people; and to your sisters, Ruhamah, that is, mercy, or oh mercy, or having obtained mercy, or mercy shall follow. Hosea 2:3 . Lest I...
EXPOSITION Hosea 2:2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not thy wife, neither am I her husband. In this second chapter the same cycle of events recurs as in the first, with this di...
v. 1. Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi ("My people"); and to your sisters, Ruhamah ("having obtained mercy"). The original names of the children were thus changed to indicate their changed relatio...
1 Peter 2:10 ; 1 Timothy 1:13 ; 2 Corinthians 4:1 ; Exodus 19:5 ; Exodus 19:6 ; Ezekiel 11:20 ; Ezekiel 36:28 ; Ezekiel 37:27 ; Hosea 1:9-11 ; Hosea 2:23 ; Jeremiah 31:33 ; Jeremiah 32:38...
Ye — Who of no people are made a people, who were once unpitied, but now have obtained mercy. Your brethren — To those of the ten tribes, who are your brethren. Ammi — Let them know that yet they a...