1 Samuel 1:22
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...
Hosea's Marriage: a Parable of Yahweh's Relations with Israel. The prophet receives a Divine command to take ( i.e. marry) a wife of whoredom and...
The weaning the Prophet mentions here is by some understood allegorically; as though he said, that the people would for a time be deprived o...
Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. Now, when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah - said to complete the symbolical pictu...
Hosea's Marriage and its Lessons 1. A general heading. Hosea 1:2-9 . The prophet's marriage with Gomer, the birth of her three children, and the...
THE STORY OF THE PRODIGAL WIFE Hosea 1:1-11 ; Hosea 2:1-23 ; Hosea 3:1-5 IT has often been remarked that, unlike the first Doomster of Israel...
God Gathers the Outcast Hosea 1:1-11 The story of Hosea is a pathetic one. He felt impressed that it was his duty to take as wife one whose ear...
The statement with which this prophecy opens, "When the Lord spake at the first," is a declaration by Hosea long after the events. Looking back, he u...
We have here a further illustration of the doctrine. Israel had forfeited all pretensions to their covenant interest in Jehovah; and if it be preserv...
Now when she had weaned Loruhamah ,.... That is, when Gomer had weaned her daughter of this name, Hosea 1:6 . This some interpret of the people of...
Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. Ver. 8. Now when she had weaned Loruhamah ] That is, after that the patience of...
Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived , &c. The last child is a son, and the daughter was weaned before the woman conceived him. “A...
Temporary Rejection of Israel; Promises of Mercy. B. C. 768....
Though some wrest the words to an allegorical sense, I think the prophet keeps the decorum in the similitude, and therefore, as women ordinarily conc...
‘Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.' The weaning of a child would take two or three years, giving Israel time to con...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Hosea 1:3 . Gom.] The name of a nation ( Genesis 10:2-3 ); symbolically G. = completion; i.e. completely given up to whoredom....
Hosea 1:1 . Hosea, the son of Beeri. The prophets named their parents, not only to distinguish themselves from others of that name, but to mark th...
EXPOSITION Hosea 1:1 The word of the Lord that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri. The prophets are divided into the former ( rishonim,...
Israel to be Rejected on Account of its Idolatry
Now, when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and bare a son, there being no interruption in the announcement of evil.
8 Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.