Hosea 3:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image,b and without an ephod, and without teraphim: ”

• Hosea 3:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For the children of Israel shall abide many days - The condition described is one in which there should be no civil polity, none of the special temple-service, nor yet the idolatry, which they ha...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For the children of Israel shall (e) abide many days without a king, and without a (f) prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and [without] teraphim: (e) Meanin...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The prophet, bidden yet again to love a woman, who is loved by another and is an adulteress, in this respect imitating Yahweh's love for His unfaithful people, buys her out of slavery and subjects he...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Israel. Not merely Judah, but the twelve tribes. Not "British" or any other "Israel". many days. All the days of the present Dispensation; "many" implying length of time; "days" implying the i...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  He afterwards adds , For many days shall the children of Israel abide He says, for many days, that they might prepare themselves for long endurance, and be not dispirited through weariness, th...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: Many days without a...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim.— After much consideration of the passage, and of much that has been written upon it by expositors, I rest in the opinion strenuously ma...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: For the child...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Attempts to Reclaim the erring Wife In an episode in the life of Hosea and his relations with Gomer (cp. Hosea 2:14 ) the prophet finds a parable of Jehovah's punishment of Israel. Having bou...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The prophet suddenly passes from his personal history to that of Israel, which it symbolised. Without a king ... — The isolation of Gomer’s position pre-figured that of Israel in the exile. Her bit...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “A Door of Hope” Hosea 2:14-23 ; Hosea 3:1-5 The valley of Achor was a long wild pass up through the hills. The prophet says that a door of hope would open there, like the Mont Cenis tunnel wh...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Finally, the prophet was commanded to love and find and restore his sinning and wandering bride. Through his obedience he entered into fellowship with the amazing tenderness of God, and was thereby p...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I beg the Reader to pause over these verses, and when he hath duly pondered their meaning, to consider at this moment the state of the Jews, and behold, how for ages and generations past, the predict...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince ,.... Without any form of civil government, either regal or without any civil magistrate, either superior or sub...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and [without] teraphim: Ver. 4. For the...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For the children of Israel shall abide many days Here begins a more plain and full explication of the symbolical action of the prophet, namely, that it signified what should befall the children of...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Idolatry of Israel; The Prophet's Remonstrances; Promises to the Penitent. B. C.  760.       1 Then s...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Now the parable is unfolded and made plain; it shall be with Israel much like as with such a woman, they and she guilty of adultery, both punished with a divorce, both punished long with such afflict...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Hosea Is Called On To Take Another Woman As Wife Who Was An Adulteress, But Was Not To Have Sexual Relations With Her. This Was As A Sign That Israel Too Was To Lose Her Relationship With YHWH, Alth...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES .— Hosea 3:1 .] The significant pair is introduced again with a fresh application. In a second symbolic marriage, the faithful, chastening love of God is set forth to adulterous I...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hosea 3:1 . Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress. This action is forbidden by the law of Moses, and also by our Saviour. What then would become of the prophet's moral char...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king. Present condition of the Jews Into the state here described the Ten Tribes were brought upon their captivity, and (those only ex...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION This short chapter contains two sections, of which the first, comprising Hosea 3:1-28 , is a symbolic representation; and the second, consisting of Hosea 3:4 and Hosea 3:5 , gives...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The New Marriage of the Adulteress. In a second symbolical marriage the faithful love of God, which for that very reason is also jealous and intends to lead to repentance, is pictured.

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 14:3 ; 1 Samuel 2:18 ; 1 Samuel 21:9 ; 1 Samuel 22:18 ; 1 Samuel 23:6 ; 1 Samuel 23:9 ; 1 Samuel 30:7 ; 2 Chronicles 15:2 ; 2 Kings 23:24 ; 2 Samuel 6:14 ; Acts 6:13 ; Acts 6:14...

  Read the comments

• Hosea 3:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  For — Now the parable is unfolded, it shall be with Israel as with such a woman, they and she were guilty of adultery, both punished long, both made slaves, kept hardly, and valued meanly, yet in m...

  Read the comments