Hosea 11:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

I drew them with cords of a man— "I employed, to gain their affection, all the motives which could influence a heart not insensible to love. They cannot complain that I treated them as animals, or as slaves; that I commanded them with rigour, or constrained them by force. I treated them as reasonable men, and as a father treats his children." Houbigant concludes the verse with the words, Yoke on their jaws; and begins the fifth thus; I drew him gently unto me: he shall not, &c.

Hosea 11:4

4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take offa the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.