the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
Hosea. Hebrew. Hoshe'a' = Salvation.
Beeri. Jewish tradition identifies Be'eri with Be'erah, of Reuben (1 Chronicles 5:6). Christian tradition makes Hosea of Issachar. Both names are symbolical, like the other names in this hook. This clause not "evidently inserted by. later hand", as alleged.
Uzziah. See note on p. 1208.
Jeroboam: i.e. Jeroboam II, the last king hut one of the house of Jehu. See note on 2 Kings 10:30; 2 Kings 14:23-29. This carries us hack to the first fourteen years of Uzziah's long reign. See notes on p. 1208, for the significance of Jeroboam '. name here.