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Hosea 2:18-23

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18 And 1I 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 2I will abolish[a] the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in 3safety.
19 And I will betroth you to me 4forever. 5I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
20 6I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And 7you shall know the LORD.
21 "And 8in that day 9I will answer, declares the LORD, I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth,
22 and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil, and they shall answer 10Jezreel,[b]
23 and 11I will sow her for myself in the land. And 12I 13will have mercy on No Mercy,[c] and 14I will say to Not My People,[d]15'You are my people'; and he shall say, 'You are my God.'"
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Hosea 2:18-23 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 15

  • 1. Ezekiel 34:25; [Job 5:23]
  • 2. Psalms 46:9; Isaiah 2:4; Isaiah 9:5; Ezekiel 39:9, 10
  • 3. Leviticus 26:5; Jeremiah 23:6
  • 4. [Ezekiel 43:7]
  • 5. [ver. 7, 16; Jeremiah 3:14, 15; 2 Corinthians 11:2]
  • 6. [See ver. 19 above]
  • 7. Jeremiah 31:34; John 17:3
  • 8. ver. 16
  • 9. [Zechariah 8:12]
  • 10. [Hosea 1:4, 11]
  • 11. [Hosea 1:10]; See Ezekiel 36:9-11
  • 12. Cited Romans 9:25, 26
  • 13. Hosea 1:6
  • 14. Hosea 1:9; 1 Peter 2:10
  • 15. ver. 1; Zechariah 13:9; See Leviticus 26:12; Jeremiah 31:33

Footnotes 4

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