Hosea 2:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. ”

Hosea 2:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will not have mercy upon her children - God visits the sins of the parents upon the children, until the entailed curse be cut off by repentance. God enforces His own word “lo-ruhamah, Unpitied,...
Hosea 2:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [be] the (f) children of whoredoms. (f) That is bastards, and begotten in adultery.
Hosea 2:4 - 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 2:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

children . sons: i.e. the individual members of the nation collectively.
Hosea 2:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Lord now comes close to each individual, after having spoken in general of the whole people: and thus we see that to be true which I have said, that it was far from the mind of the Prophet...
Hosea 2:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. They be the children of whoredoms - They are all idolaters; and have been consecrated to idols, whose marks they...
Hosea 2:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. And I will not have mercy upon her children - not even her individual members shall escape the doom of the...
Hosea 2:4 - 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 2:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Her children. — The children are like their mother: not only are they born of doubtful parentage, but are personally defiled. Not only is idolatry enshrined in the national sanctuary and the royal...
Hosea 2:4 - 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 2:4 - 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 2:4 - 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 2:4 - 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 2:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I will not have mercy upon her children ,.... The posterity of the Jews in succeeding ages, until the time of their conversion comes; they persisting in the sins of their forefathers, filling up...
Hosea 2:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [be] the children of whoredoms. Ver. 4. And I will not have mercy upon her children ] Lo, here another "and" to those four before; and more dr...
Hosea 2:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And I will not have mercy on her children , &c. As an injured husband has no regard for the children which his wife has had by another man; so neither will I have pity on thy children which are...
Hosea 2:4 - 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 2:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I will not have mercy: see Hosea 1:6 . Upon her children: by this expression particular persons are severally, as by mother the whole nation was, threatened, that none might flatter themselves...
Hosea 2:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Yes, upon her children will I have no mercy, for they are children of whoredom; because their mother has played the harlot; she who conceived them has done shamefully.” And the consequences of Isra...
Hosea 2:4 - 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 2:4 - 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 2:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

I will not have mercy. Threatening and pleading (compare Hosea 2:2 ):--“Let her put away her whoredoms,” etc. What should we learn hereby, but that it hangs upon our own will whether God suspe...
Hosea 2:4 - 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 2:4 - 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 2:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 9:22 ; Ezekiel 8:18 ; Ezekiel 9:10 ; Hosea 1:2 ; Hosea 1:6 ; Isaiah 27:11 ; Isaiah 57:3 ; James 2:13 ; Jeremiah 13:14 ; Jeremiah 16:5 ; John 8:41 ; Romans 11:22 ; Romans 9:18 ;...

Hosea 2:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hosea 2:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Hosea 2:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 2:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Hosea 2:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 2:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Hosea 2:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Hosea 2:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 2:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hosea 2:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Hosea 2:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Hosea 2:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hosea 2:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hosea 2:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hosea 2:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hosea 2:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 2:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hosea 2:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hosea 2:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 2:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Hosea 2:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 2:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Hosea 2:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Hosea 2:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hosea 2:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge