Hosea 1:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Judah. Hosea 1:7 is not an "interpolation", but is. definite and distinctive contrast with the prophecy concerning Israel.

by the LORD their God. by (Jehovah their Elohim: i.e. the Messiah, or the angel of Jehovah. See 2 Kings 19:35. But it looks forward to the future fulfillment, which will exhaust the prophecy in the destruction of Antichrist (Isaiah 11:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:8, &c).

Hosea 1:7

7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.