Hosea 2:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. ”

Hosea 2:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lest I strip her naked - “ There is an outward visible nakedness and an inward, which is invisible. The invisible nakedness is, when the soul within is bared of the glory and the grace of God.” Th...
Hosea 2:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Lest I strip her naked, and (d) set her as in the day that she was (e) born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. (d) For even though his people were...
Hosea 2:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 2:2-23 ( Hebrews 2:4-18 ). In this discourse, which seems to be based upon and imply the narrative in Hosea 1, 3, the prophet sets forth the unfaithfulness of the people and land of Israel...
Hosea 2:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Lest, &c. Hosea 2:3 refers to Israel's earliest history. her: i.e. her land, as shown by the words following. Compare Ezekiel 16:23-43 . in the day. See App-18.
Hosea 2:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Though the Prophet in this verse severely threatens the Israelites, yet it appears from a full view of the whole passage, that he mitigates the sentence we have explained: for by declaring what...
Hosea 2:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. Lest I strip her naked - Lest I expose her to...
Hosea 2:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And make her as a wilderness— Hebrew. And lay her waste like a wilderness. It may seem harsh to say of a woman, that she shall be laid waste like a wilderness, and reduced to the condition of a p...
Hosea 2:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. Lest I strip her naked, and set her a...
Hosea 2:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Discipline and Restoration of Faithless Israel The unfaithful conduct of Gomer and the prophet's gentle treatment of her are regarded as an analogue of the nation's faithlessness and God's gen...
Hosea 2:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Set her ... — Reduce Israel to the destitute exposed condition in which she struggled into being in Egyptian bondage, and endured the wanderings and terrors of the wilderness. Probably we have here...
Hosea 2:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Hosea 2:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Hosea 2:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

No details of the unfaithfulness of Gomer are given, but in the second movement the prophet is seen nursing his own agony, and by that process learning the true nature of the sin of his people as God...
Hosea 2:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

But yet remember how the Lord pleads with his people under their rebellions. Here the whole Church is represented as our mother; and called in to hear of her backslidings; that when Christ was marrie...
Hosea 2:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born ,.... Alluding to the case of an infant when born, which comes naked into the world; and referring to the state and condition of t...
Hosea 2:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. Ver. 3. Lest I strip her naked ] Deus ide...
Hosea 2:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lest I strip her naked , &c. The punishment frequently inflicted upon harlots was, to strip them naked and expose them to the world. The punishment of adulteresses among the Germans is thus desc...
Hosea 2:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sinfulness of Israel. B. C. 764. 1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sist...
Hosea 2:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lest: this little word suggests great hopes; if this treacherous wife will cease her lewdness, and become chaste, she may be forgiven; it reserves room for repentance and reconciliation, without th...
Hosea 2:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Contend with your mother, contend, for she is not my wife, nor am I her husband, and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts, lest I strip her naked...
Hosea 2:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 2:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Hosea 2:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Lest I strip her naked. Eastern divorce custom It was the custom among the Jews when any married that what dowry they brought their husbands was written down in a table; and if afterwards the h...
Hosea 2:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Hosea 2:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Hosea 2:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 8:11-13 ; Exodus 17:3 ; Ezekiel 16:22 ; Ezekiel 16:37-39 ; Ezekiel 16:4-8 ; Ezekiel 19:13 ; Ezekiel 20:35 ; Ezekiel 20:36 ; Ezekiel 23:26-29 ; Hosea 2:10 ; Isaiah 32:13 ; Isaiah 32:1...
Hosea 2:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Strip her — As was usually done by incensed husbands, divorcing impudent adulteresses. As a wilderness — Barren and desolate.

Hosea 2:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hosea 2:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Hosea 2:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 2:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Hosea 2:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 2:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Hosea 2:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Hosea 2:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Hosea 2:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 2:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hosea 2:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Hosea 2:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Hosea 2:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hosea 2:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hosea 2:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hosea 2:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hosea 2:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 2:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hosea 2:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hosea 2:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 2:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Hosea 2:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 2:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Hosea 2:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Hosea 2:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hosea 2:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 2:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes