Hosea 1:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Now when she had weaned ... - Eastern women very commonly nursed their children two, or even three (2 Macc. 7:27) years. The weaning then of the child portrays a certain interval of time between these two degrees of chastisement; but after this reprieve, the last and final judgment pictured here was to set in irreversibly.

Hosea 1:8

8 Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.