Hosea 1:1 INSCRIPTION. (Hos 1:1-11) Spiritual whoredom of Israel set forth by symbolical acts; Gomer taken to wife at God's command: Jezreel, Lo-ruhamah, and Lo-Ammi, the children. Yet a promise of Judah and Israel's …
1Palabra de Jehová que vino a Oseas hijo de Beeri, en días de Uzías, Jotam, Acaz y Ezequías, reyes de Judá, y en días de Jeroboam hijo de Joás, rey de Israel.
2El principio de la palabra de Jehová por medio de Oseas. Dijo Jehová a Oseas: Ve, tómate una mujer fornicaria, e hijos de fornicación; porque la tierra fornica apartándose de Jehová.
3Fue, pues, y tomó a Gomer hija de Diblaim, la cual concibió y le dio a luz un hijo.
4Y le dijo Jehová: Ponle por nombre Jezreel; porque de aquí a poco yo castigaré a la casa de Jehú por causa de la sangre de Jezreel, y haré cesar el reino de la casa de Israel.
5Y en aquel día quebraré yo el arco de Israel en el valle de Jezreel.
6Concibió ella otra vez, y dio a luz una hija. Y le dijo Dios: Ponle por nombre Lo-ruhama, porque no me compadeceré más de la casa de Israel, sino que los quitaré del todo.
7Mas de la casa de Judá tendré misericordia, y los salvaré por Jehová su Dios; y no los salvaré con arco, ni con espada, ni con batalla, ni con caballos ni jinetes.
8Después de haber destetado a Lo-ruhama, concibió y dio a luz un hijo.
9Y dijo Dios: Ponle por nombre Lo-ammi, porque vosotros no sois mi pueblo, ni yo seré vuestro Dios.
10Con todo, será el número de los hijos de Israel como la arena del mar, que no se puede medir ni contar. Y en el lugar en donde les fue dicho: Vosotros no sois pueblo mío, les será dicho: Sois hijos del Dios viviente.
11Y se congregarán los hijos de Judá y de Israel, y nombrarán un solo jefe, y subirán de la tierra; porque el día de Jezreel será grande.
JAMIESON-FAUSSET-BROWN BIBLE COMMENTARY
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I. beginning--not of the prophet's predictions generally, but of those spoken by Hosea.
beginning--not of the prophet's predictions generally, but of those spoken by Hosea.
take . . . wife of whoredoms--not externally acted, but internally and in vision, as a pictorial illustration of Israel's unfaithfulness [HENGSTENBERG]. Compare Eze 16:8, Eze 16:15, &c. Besides the loathsomeness of such a marriage, if an external act, it would require years for the birth of three children, which would weaken the symbol (compare Eze 4:4). HENDERSON objects that there is no hint of the transaction being fictitious: Gomer fell into lewdness after her union with Hosea, not before; for thus only she was a fit symbol of Israel, who lapsed into spiritual whoredom after the marriage contract with God on Sinai, and made even before at the call of the patriarchs of Israel. Gomer is called "a wife of whoredoms," anticipatively.
children of whoredoms--The kingdom collectively is viewed as a mother; the individual subjects of it are spoken of as her children. "Take" being applied to both implies that they refer to the same thing viewed under different aspects. The "children" were not the prophet's own, but born of adultery, and presented to him as his [KITTO, Biblical CyclopÃ&brvbrdia]. Rather, "children of whoredoms" means that the children, like their mother, fell into spiritual fornication. Compare "bare him a son" (see Hos 2:4-5). Being children of a spiritual whore, they naturally fell into her whorish ways.
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II. Gomer . . . daughter of Diblaim--symbolical names; literally, "completion, daughter of grape cake…
Gomer . . . daughter of Diblaim--symbolical names; literally, "completion, daughter of grape cakes"; the dual expressing the double layers in which these dainties were baked. So, one completely given up to sensuality. MAURER explains "Gomer" as literally, "a burning coal." Compare Pro 6:27, Pro 6:29, as to an adulteress; Job 31:9, Job 31:12.
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III. Jezreel--that is, "God will scatter" (compare Zac 10:9). It was the royal city of Ahab and his su…
Jezreel--that is, "God will scatter" (compare Zac 10:9). It was the royal city of Ahab and his successors, in the tribe of Issachar. Here Jehu exercised his greatest cruelties (Kg2 9:16, Kg2 9:25, Kg2 9:33; Kg2 10:11, Kg2 10:14, Kg2 10:17). There is in the name an allusion to "Israel" by a play of letters and sounds.
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IV. bow--the prowess (Jer 49:35; compare Gen 49:24).
bow--the prowess (Jer 49:35; compare Gen 49:24).
valley of Jezreel--afterwards called Esdraelon, extending ten miles in breadth, and in length from Jordan to the Mediterranean near Mount Carmel, the great battlefield of Palestine (Jdg 6:33; Sa1 29:1).
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V. Lo-ruhamah--that is, "not an object of mercy or gracious favor."
Lo-ruhamah--that is, "not an object of mercy or gracious favor."
take . . . away--Israel, as a kingdom, was never restored from Assyria, as Judah was from Babylon after seventy years. MAURER translates according to the primary meaning, "No more will I have mercy on the house of Israel, so as to pardon them."
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VI. Judah is only incidentally mentioned to form a contrast to Israel.
Judah is only incidentally mentioned to form a contrast to Israel.
by the Lord their God--more emphatic than "by Myself"; by that Jehovah (Me) whom they worship as their God, whereas ye despise Him.
not . . . by bow--on which ye Israelites rely (Hos 1:5, "the bow of Israel"); Jeroboam II was famous as a warrior (Kg2 14:25). Yet it was not by their warlike power Jehovah would save Judah (Sa1 17:47; Psa 20:7). The deliverance of Jerusalem from Sennacherib (Kg2 19:35), and the restoration from Babylon, are herein predicted.
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VII. weaned--said to complete the symbolical picture, not having any special signification as to Israe…
weaned--said to complete the symbolical picture, not having any special signification as to Israel [HENDERSON]. Israel was bereft of all the privileges which were as needful to them as milk is to infants (compare Psa 131:2; Pe1 2:2) [VATABLUS]. Israel was not suddenly, but gradually cast off; God bore with them with long-suffering, until they were incurable [CALVIN]. But as it is not God, but Gomer who weans Lo-ruhamah, the weaning may imply the lust of Gomer, who was hardly weaned when she is again pregnant [MANGER].
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VIII. Lo-Ammi--once "My people," but henceforth not so (Eze 16:8). The intervals between the marriage a…
Lo-Ammi--once "My people," but henceforth not so (Eze 16:8). The intervals between the marriage and the successive births of the three children, imply that three successive generations are intended. Jezreel, the first child, represents the dynasty of Jeroboam I and his successors, ending with Jehu's shedding the blood of Jeroboam's line in Jezreel; it was there that Jezebel was slain, in vengeance for Naboth's blood shed in the same Jezreel (Kg1 16:1; Kg2 9:21, Kg2 9:30). The scenes of Jezreel were to be enacted over again on Jehu's degenerate race. At Jezreel Assyria routed Israel [JEROME]. The child's name associates past sins, intermediate punishments, and final overthrow. Lo-ruhamah ("not pitied"), the second child, is a daughter, representing the effeminate period which followed the overthrow of the first dynasty, when Israel was at once abject and impious. Lo-Ammi ("not my people"), the third child, a son, represents the vigorous dynasty (Kg2 14:25) of Jeroboam II; but, as prosperity did not bring with it revived piety, they were still not God's people.
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IX. Literally fulfilled in part at the return from Babylon, in which many Israelites joined with Juda…
Literally fulfilled in part at the return from Babylon, in which many Israelites joined with Judah. Spiritually, the believing seed of Jacob or Israel, Gentiles as well as Jews, numerous "as the sand" (Gen 32:12); the Gentiles, once not God's people, becoming His "sons" (Joh 1:12; Rom 9:25-26; Pe1 2:10; Jo1 3:1). To be fulfilled in its literal fulness hereafter in Israel's restoration (Rom 11:26).
the living God--opposed to their dead idols.
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X. Judah . . . Israel . . . together-- (Isa 11:12-13; Jer 3:18; Eze 34:23; Eze 37:16-24).
Judah . . . Israel . . . together-- (Isa 11:12-13; Jer 3:18; Eze 34:23; Eze 37:16-24).
one head--Zerubbabel typically; Christ antitypically, under whom alone Israel and Judah are joined, the "Head" of the Church (Eph 1:22; Eph 5:23), and of the hereafter united kingdom of Judah and Israel (Jer 34:5-6; Eze 34:23). Though "appointed" by the Father (Psa 2:6), Christ is in another sense "appointed" as their Head by His people, when they accept and embrace Him as such.
out of the land--of the Gentiles among whom they sojourn.
the day of Jezreel--"The day of one" is the time of God's special visitation of him, either in wrath or in mercy. Here "Jezreel" is in a different sense from that in Hos 1:4, "God will sow," not "God will scatter"; they shall be the seed of God, planted by God again in their own land (Jer 24:6; Jer 31:28; Jer 32:41; Amo 9:15).
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Hosea — Capítulo 1
Hosea 1:1 INSCRIPTION. (Hos 1:1-11) Spiritual whoredom of Israel set forth by symbolical acts; Gomer taken to wife at God's command: Jezreel, Lo-ruhamah, and Lo-Ammi, the children. Yet a promise of Judah and Israel's …
Texto — Reina-Valera 1960
1Palabra de Jehová que vino a Oseas hijo de Beeri, en días de Uzías, Jotam, Acaz y Ezequías, reyes de Judá, y en días de Jeroboam hijo de Joás, rey de Israel.
2El principio de la palabra de Jehová por medio de Oseas. Dijo Jehová a Oseas: Ve, tómate una mujer fornicaria, e hijos de fornicación; porque la tierra fornica apartándose de Jehová.
3Fue, pues, y tomó a Gomer hija de Diblaim, la cual concibió y le dio a luz un hijo.
4Y le dijo Jehová: Ponle por nombre Jezreel; porque de aquí a poco yo castigaré a la casa de Jehú por causa de la sangre de Jezreel, y haré cesar el reino de la casa de Israel.
5Y en aquel día quebraré yo el arco de Israel en el valle de Jezreel.
6Concibió ella otra vez, y dio a luz una hija. Y le dijo Dios: Ponle por nombre Lo-ruhama, porque no me compadeceré más de la casa de Israel, sino que los quitaré del todo.
7Mas de la casa de Judá tendré misericordia, y los salvaré por Jehová su Dios; y no los salvaré con arco, ni con espada, ni con batalla, ni con caballos ni jinetes.
8Después de haber destetado a Lo-ruhama, concibió y dio a luz un hijo.
9Y dijo Dios: Ponle por nombre Lo-ammi, porque vosotros no sois mi pueblo, ni yo seré vuestro Dios.
10Con todo, será el número de los hijos de Israel como la arena del mar, que no se puede medir ni contar. Y en el lugar en donde les fue dicho: Vosotros no sois pueblo mío, les será dicho: Sois hijos del Dios viviente.
11Y se congregarán los hijos de Judá y de Israel, y nombrarán un solo jefe, y subirán de la tierra; porque el día de Jezreel será grande.
JAMIESON-FAUSSET-BROWN BIBLE COMMENTARY
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I. beginning--not of the prophet's predictions generally, but of those spoken by Hosea.
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II. Gomer . . . daughter of Diblaim--symbolical names; literally, "completion, daughter of grape cake…
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III. Jezreel--that is, "God will scatter" (compare Zac 10:9). It was the royal city of Ahab and his su…
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IV. bow--the prowess (Jer 49:35; compare Gen 49:24).
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V. Lo-ruhamah--that is, "not an object of mercy or gracious favor."
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VI. Judah is only incidentally mentioned to form a contrast to Israel.
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VII. weaned--said to complete the symbolical picture, not having any special signification as to Israe…
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VIII. Lo-Ammi--once "My people," but henceforth not so (Eze 16:8). The intervals between the marriage a…
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IX. Literally fulfilled in part at the return from Babylon, in which many Israelites joined with Juda…
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X. Judah . . . Israel . . . together-- (Isa 11:12-13; Jer 3:18; Eze 34:23; Eze 37:16-24).