Hosea 2:10-20

10 Now ¹I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.

11 ²And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her ³new moons, her ⁴Sabbaths, and all her ⁵appointed feasts.

12 And ⁶I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, ⁷of which she said, 'These are ⁸my wages, which my lovers have given me.' I will make them a forest, ⁹and the beasts of the field shall devour them.

13 And ¹⁰I will punish her for ¹¹the feast days of the Baals when she burned offerings to them and ¹²adorned herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers and forgot me, declares the LORD.

The Lord's Mercy on Israel

14 "Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and ¹³bring her into the wilderness, and ¹⁴speak tenderly to her.

15 And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor^[a] a door of hope. And there she shall answer ¹⁵as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

16 "And ¹⁶in that day, declares the LORD, you will call me 'My Husband,' and no longer will you call me 'My Baal.'

17 For ¹⁷I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.

18 And ¹⁸I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And ¹⁹I will abolish^[b] the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in ²⁰safety.

19 And I will betroth you to me ²¹forever. ²²I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.

20 ²³I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And ²⁴you shall know the LORD.

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Hosea 2:10-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO HOSEA 2

This chapter is an explanation of the former, proceeding upon the same argument in more express words. The godly Israelites are here called upon to lay before the body of the people their idolatry, ingratitude, obstinacy, and ignorance of the God of their mercies; and to exhort them to repentance, lest they should be stripped of all their good things, and be brought into great distress and difficulties; all their joy and comfort cease, and be exposed to shame and contempt, Ho 2:1-13, yet, notwithstanding, many gracious promises are made unto them, of their having the alluring and comfortable word of the Gospel; of a door of hope; of salvation being opened to them; of faith in the Lord, and affection to him as their husband; of the removal of all idolatry from them; of safety from all enemies; of their open espousal to Christ; of his hearing of their prayers, and giving them plenty of all good things; and of their multiplication, conversion, and covenant relation to God, Ho 2:14-23.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 24

1. Lamentations 1:8; Ezekiel 16:37; Ezekiel 23:29
2. [Jeremiah 7:34; Amos 8:10]
3. [Amos 8:5]
4. [Amos 8:5]
5. [Hosea 9:5; Isaiah 1:13, 14]
6. [Isaiah 5:5]
7. [ver. 5]
8. [Micah 1:7]
9. [Hosea 13:8]
10. [Hosea 4:9]
11. [Hosea 11:2; Hosea 13:1, 2]
12. Ezekiel 23:40; [Isaiah 61:10]
13. [Ezekiel 20:35]
14. Isaiah 40:2
15. [Hosea 9:10; Hosea 11:1; Jeremiah 2:2; Ezekiel 16:22, 60]
16. ver. 18, 21
17. Zephaniah 1:4; Zechariah 13:2; [Exodus 23:13]
18. Ezekiel 34:25; [Job 5:23]
19. Psalms 46:9; Isaiah 2:4; Isaiah 9:5; Ezekiel 39:9, 10
20. Leviticus 26:5; Jeremiah 23:6
21. [Ezekiel 43:7]
22. [ver. 7, 16; Jeremiah 3:14, 15; 2 Corinthians 11:2]
23. [See ver. 19 above]
24. Jeremiah 31:34; John 17:3

Footnotes 2

[a]. Achor means trouble; compare Joshua 7:26
[b]. Hebrew break

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