the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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THE MESSAGE
Hosea 1:5
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On that day I will break the bow of Israelin the Valley of Jezreel.
It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Yisra'el in the valley of Yizre`el."
And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.
And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel."
"On that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel."
and break the power of Israel's army in the Valley of Jezreel."
"On that day I will break the bow [of the military power] of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel."
And at that day will I also breake the bowe of Israel in the valley of Izreel.
"On that day I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel."
And it will be in that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel."
And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel."
and in Jezreel Valley I will break the power of Israel."
When that day comes, I will break the bow of Isra'el in the Yizre‘el Valley."
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jizreel.
And at that time I will break Israel's bow at Jezreel Valley."
And it shall come to pass on that day, I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
And in Jezreel Valley I will at that time destroy Israel's military power."
On that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel."
And it shall be in that day, I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
Then will I breake the bowe of Israel, in the valley of Iesrael.
And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
And in that day I will let the bow of Israel be broken in the valley of Jezreel.
And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.'
And it shall come to passe at that day, that I will breake the bow of Israel in the valley of Iezreel.
And in that day wyll I also breake the bowe of Israel, in the valley of Iezrahel.
And it shall be, in that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezrael.
And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel."
And in that dai Y schal al to-breke the bowe of Israel in the valei of Jesrael.
And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
At that time, I will destroy the military power of Israel in the valley of Jezreel."
It shall come to pass in that day That I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel."
I will break its military power in the Jezreel Valley."
On that day, I will break the power of Israel in the valley of Jezreel."
On that day I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel."
And it shall come to pass, in that day, that I will break the bow of Israel, in the vale of Jezreel.
And in that day I will break in pieces the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezrahel.
And on that day, I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel."
and it hath come to pass in that day that I have broken the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.'
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I will: Hosea 2:18, Psalms 37:15, Psalms 46:9, Jeremiah 49:34, Jeremiah 49:35, Jeremiah 51:56
in: Joshua 17:16, Judges 6:33
Reciprocal: Joshua 19:18 - Jezreel 1 Kings 21:1 - Jezreel 2 Kings 15:10 - slew him Psalms 18:34 - so that Ezekiel 39:3 - General Matthew 14:6 - birthday
Cross-References
God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good! It was evening, it was morning— Day Six.
For as long as Earth lasts, planting and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and winter, day and night will never stop."
class="poetry"> O my soul, bless God ! God , my God, how great you are! beautifully, gloriously robed, Dressed up in sunshine, and all heaven stretched out for your tent. You built your palace on the ocean deeps, made a chariot out of clouds and took off on wind-wings. You commandeered winds as messengers, appointed fire and flame as ambassadors. You set earth on a firm foundation so that nothing can shake it, ever. You blanketed earth with ocean, covered the mountains with deep waters; Then you roared and the water ran away— your thunder crash put it to flight. Mountains pushed up, valleys spread out in the places you assigned them. You set boundaries between earth and sea; never again will earth be flooded. You started the springs and rivers, sent them flowing among the hills. All the wild animals now drink their fill, wild donkeys quench their thirst. Along the riverbanks the birds build nests, ravens make their voices heard. You water the mountains from your heavenly cisterns; earth is supplied with plenty of water. You make grass grow for the livestock, hay for the animals that plow the ground. Oh yes, God brings grain from the land, wine to make people happy, Their faces glowing with health, a people well-fed and hearty. God 's trees are well-watered— the Lebanon cedars he planted. Birds build their nests in those trees; look—the stork at home in the treetop. Mountain goats climb about the cliffs; badgers burrow among the rocks. The moon keeps track of the seasons, the sun is in charge of each day. When it's dark and night takes over, all the forest creatures come out. The young lions roar for their prey, clamoring to God for their supper. When the sun comes up, they vanish, lazily stretched out in their dens. Meanwhile, men and women go out to work, busy at their jobs until evening. What a wildly wonderful world, God ! You made it all, with Wisdom at your side, made earth overflow with your wonderful creations. Oh, look—the deep, wide sea, brimming with fish past counting, sardines and sharks and salmon. Ships plow those waters, and Leviathan, your pet dragon, romps in them. All the creatures look expectantly to you to give them their meals on time. You come, and they gather around; you open your hand and they eat from it. If you turned your back, they'd die in a minute— Take back your Spirit and they die, revert to original mud; Send out your Spirit and they spring to life— the whole countryside in bloom and blossom. The glory of God —let it last forever! Let God enjoy his creation! He takes one look at earth and triggers an earthquake, points a finger at the mountains, and volcanoes erupt. Oh, let me sing to God all my life long, sing hymns to my God as long as I live! Oh, let my song please him; I'm so pleased to be singing to God . But clear the ground of sinners— no more godless men and women! O my soul, bless God !
But for right now, friends, I'm completely frustrated by your unspiritual dealings with each other and with God. You're acting like infants in relation to Christ, capable of nothing much more than nursing at the breast. Well, then, I'll nurse you since you don't seem capable of anything more. As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything's going your way? When one of you says, "I'm on Paul's side," and another says, "I'm for Apollos," aren't you being totally infantile? Who do you think Paul is, anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us—servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment. I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but God made you grow. It's not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow. Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God's field in which we are working. Or, to put it another way, you are God's house. Using the gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints; Apollos is putting up the walls. Let each carpenter who comes on the job take care to build on the foundation! Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already laid: Jesus Christ. Take particular care in picking out your building materials. Eventually there is going to be an inspection. If you use cheap or inferior materials, you'll be found out. The inspection will be thorough and rigorous. You won't get by with a thing. If your work passes inspection, fine; if it doesn't, your part of the building will be torn out and started over. But you won't be torn out; you'll survive—but just barely. You realize, don't you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you? No one will get by with vandalizing God's temple, you can be sure of that. God's temple is sacred—and you, remember, are the temple. Don't fool yourself. Don't think that you can be wise merely by being up-to-date with the times. Be God's fool—that's the path to true wisdom. What the world calls smart, God calls stupid. It's written in Scripture, He exposes the chicanery of the chic. The Master sees through the smoke screens of the know-it-alls. I don't want to hear any of you bragging about yourself or anyone else. Everything is already yours as a gift—Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, the present, the future—all of it is yours, and you are privileged to be in union with Christ, who is in union with God.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And it shall come to pass at that day,.... When the Lord shall take vengeance on the family of Jehu, and deprive them of the kingdom of Israel, and shall punish the idolatrous kings that succeed:
that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel; of which valley see Joshua 17:16. It is now called the plain of Esdraelon; as it is in the Apocrypha:
"And to those among the nations that were of Carmel, and Galaad, and the higher Galilee, and the great plain of Esdrelom,'' (Judith 1:8)
the great plain of Esdraelon; according to Adrichomius, o it is two miles broad, and ten miles long; its soil exceeding rich and fruitful, and abounding with grain, wine, and oil; all travellers agree they never saw the like: one says p of this plain or valley, formerly the lot of the tribe of Issachar, this is the most fertile portion of the land of Canaan, where that tribe might well be supposed to have "rejoiced in their tents", Deuteronomy 33:18, at present, indeed, it is not manured, as another traveller q observes, and yet very fruitful; who says, it is of a vast extent, and very fertile, but uncultivated, only serving the Arabs for pasturage; and, according to the same writer, the ancient river Kishon runs through the middle of it: from the largeness of it, it is frequently called by writers the great plain or valley; and sometimes, from the places near it, or on it, the great plain of Legio, the great plain of Samaria, the great plain or valley of Megiddo, 2 Chronicles 35:22, and the great plain of Esdraelon, and here the valley of Jezreel; Jezreel or Esdraela being situated in this great plain or valley between Scythopolis and Legio, a very large village, as Jerom says r it was in his days; and also on this passage observes, that Jezreel, from whence this valley had its name, is now near Maximianopolis, and was the metropolis of the kingdom of Samaria, near which were very large plains, and a valley of a very great length, extending more than ten miles: here Ahab had a palace in his days, near to which was Naboth's vineyard, and where God revenged his blood: this city is called by Josephus s Azare and Azarus, or Izarus; and in the times of Gulielmus Tyrius t it went by the name of Little Gerinum. The "bow" is put for all instruments of war, and everything in which confidence was put, which was weakened or removed from them: this refers either to Menhchem's slaughter of Shallum, and wasting some parts of the land of Israel, 2 Kings 15:14, or rather it may be to a battle fought between Hoshea king of Israel and Shalmaneser king of Assyria in this valley, which was not far from Samaria; in which the former was defeated, and the latter, having the victory, proceeded to Samaria, besieged and took it, 2 Kings 17:6 though of the action the Scripture is silent; but it is not improbable. The Targum is,
"I will break the strength of the warriors of Israel in the valley of Jezreel;''
which seems to confirm the same conjecture. Some render it, "because of the valley of Jezreel" u; that is, because of the idolatry, bloodshed, and other sins, committed there.
o Theatrum Terrae Sanctae, p. 35, 37. p Dr. Shaw's Travels, tom. 2. c. 1. p. 275. Ed. 2. q Maundrell's Journey from Aleppo, &c. p. 57. Ed. 7. r De locis Hebraicis, fol. 92. I. s Antiqu. l. 8. c. 13. sect. 6, 8. t Tyr. Hist. l. 22. c. 26. u בעמק יזרעאל "propter vallem Jisreelis", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator,
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel - The valley of Jezreel is a beautiful and a broad valley or plain, stretching, from West to East, from Mount Carmel and the sea to the Jordan, which it reaches through two arms, between the Mountains of Gilboa, little Hermon, and Tabor; and from South to North from the Mountains of Ephraim to those of Galilee. Nazareth lay on its northern side. It is called “the great plain” (1 Macc. 12:49), “the great plain of Esdraelon” (Judith 1:8). There God had signally executed His judgments against the enemies of His people, or on His people, when they became His enemies. There He gave the great victories over the invading hosts of Sisera (Judges 4:4 ff), and of Midian, with the children of the East. Judges 6:33. There also He ended the life and kingdom of Saul 1 Samuel 29:1; 1 Samuel 31:1, 1Sa 31:7, 1 Samuel 31:10, visiting upon him, when his measure of iniquity was full, his years of contumacy, and his persecution of David, whom God had chosen. Jezreel became a royal residence of the house of Ahab 1Ki 18:46; 1 Kings 21:1-3; 2 Kings 9:10, 2 Kings 9:25, 2 Kings 9:30; 2 Kings 10:1, 2 Kings 10:11. There, in the scenes of Ahab’s wickedness and of Jehu’s hypocritical zeal; there, where he drave furiously, to avenge, as he alleged, on the house of Ahab, the innocent blood which Ahab had shed in Jezreel, Hosea foretells that the kingdom of Israel should be broken In the same plain, at the battle with Shalmaneser, near Betharbel (see the note at Hosea 10:14), Hosea lived to see his prophecy fulfilled. The strength of the kingdom was there finally broken; the sufferings there endured were one last warning before the capture of Samaria (see the note at Hosea 10:15).
The name of Jezreel blends the sins with the punishment. It resembles, in form and in sound, the name of Israel, and contains a reversal of the promise contained in the name of Israel, in which they trusted. “Yisrael” (as their name was originally pronounced) signifies, “he is a prince with God; Yidsreel, God shall scatter.” They who, while they followed the faith, for which their forefather Jacob received from God the name of Israel, had been truly Israel, i. e., “princes with God,” should now be “Yidsreel,” “scattered by God.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 1:5. In the valley of Jezreel — This also is supposed to relate either to some signal defeat of the Israelites by the Assyrians, which took place in the valley of Jezreel; or to the death of Zechariah, the fourth lineal descendant of Jehu, which may have happened here. See 2 Kings 15:10. - Newcome.
