Hosea 2:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

from thence: i.e. [when she cometh] from thence. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 16:13; Numbers 16:14). App-92.

the valley of Achor. Ref to Joshua 7:26. App-92. The events must have been written down at the time and preserved. See App-47.

Achor. trouble. Compare Joshua 7:24-26.

door. entrance.

hope. expectation; no longer of trouble.

shall sing there. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 15:1). App-92.

there. Where Jehovah allureth, and bringeth, and speaketh.

as in the days, &c. Compare Jeremiah 2:2.Ezekiel 16:8; Ezekiel 16:22; Ezekiel 16:60.

when she came up. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 1:10; Exodus 12:38; Exodus 13:18, &c); and when Jehovah said "My son" (Exodus 4:22). App-92.

Hosea 2:15

15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.