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Hosea 14:1

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   God Continued...;   Repentance;   Thompson Chain Reference - Iniquity;   Penitence-Impenitence;   Returning to God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Sins, National;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Prophecy, prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hosea;   Remnant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Forgiveness;   Salvation, Saviour;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Self-Examination;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Israel ;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eschatology of the Old Testament (with Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Writings);   Hosea;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alexandri;   Forgiveness;   Repentance;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for November 10;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bahwa Samaria sudah tenggelam dalam salah, karena ia sudah mendurhaka kepada Allahnya; mereka itu akan rebah mati dimakan pedang, segala kanak-kanak penyusu mereka itu akan dihancurkan dan segala perempuan yang mengandung itu akan dibelah perutnya.

Contextual Overview

1 O Israel, returne vnto the Lorde thy God, for thou hast fallen through thine owne wickednesse. 2 Take these wordes with you, whe ye turne to the Lorde, and say vnto him, O forgeue vs all our sinnes, receaue vs graciously, and then wyll we offer the Calues of our lippes vnto thee. 3 Asshur shalbe no more our helper, neither will we ride vpon horses any more, neither wyll we say any more to the worke of our handes, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherlesse findeth mercie.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

return: Hosea 6:1, Hosea 12:6, 1 Samuel 7:3, 1 Samuel 7:4, 2 Chronicles 30:6-9, Isaiah 55:6, Isaiah 55:7, Jeremiah 3:12-14, Jeremiah 4:1, Joel 2:12, Joel 2:13, Zechariah 1:3, Zechariah 1:4, Acts 26:18-20

thou: Hosea 13:9, Jeremiah 2:19, Lamentations 5:16, Ezekiel 28:14-16

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 30:2 - return unto Judges 10:16 - they put 1 Kings 8:35 - and turn 1 Kings 8:48 - And so return 2 Kings 17:13 - Turn ye 2 Chronicles 6:38 - return 2 Chronicles 15:4 - in their trouble 2 Chronicles 33:15 - he took Job 22:23 - return Job 36:10 - commandeth Proverbs 1:23 - Turn Song of Solomon 6:13 - return Isaiah 1:19 - General Isaiah 10:21 - return Isaiah 17:7 - General Isaiah 19:22 - they shall Isaiah 30:15 - in returning Isaiah 31:6 - Turn Isaiah 43:22 - thou hast not Isaiah 44:22 - return Jeremiah 3:4 - Wilt thou Jeremiah 3:7 - Turn thou Jeremiah 3:22 - Return Jeremiah 8:4 - Shall they Jeremiah 24:7 - for they Jeremiah 26:13 - amend Jeremiah 35:15 - Return Jeremiah 36:7 - It may Lamentations 3:40 - turn Ezekiel 14:6 - Repent Ezekiel 33:11 - turn ye Ezekiel 33:14 - if he Hosea 2:7 - I will Hosea 5:5 - fall in Hosea 5:15 - till Amos 5:2 - is fallen Zechariah 7:7 - cried Malachi 3:7 - Return unto me Luke 15:18 - will arise Revelation 2:5 - thou art

Cross-References

Genesis 10:22
The chyldren of Sem: Elam, and Assur, Arpharad, and Lud, and Aram.
Genesis 11:2
And when they went foorth from the east, they founde a playne in the lande of Sinar, and there they abode.
Isaiah 11:11
At the same time shall the Lord take in hande agayne to recouer the remnaunt of his people, whiche shalbe left aliue from the Assirians, Egyptians, Arabians, Morians, Elamites, Chaldees, Antiochians, & from the Ilandes of the sea,
Isaiah 21:2
A greeuous vision was shewed vnto me: let one deceiptfull offendour come agaynst another, and one destroyer agaynst another: Up Elam, lay siege thou of Media, all their gronyng haue I layde downe.
Isaiah 22:6
Elam bare the quiuer with a charret of footmen and horsemen, and the citie of Kir shewed the shielde open.
Isaiah 37:12
Were the people of the gentiles whom my progenitours conquered, deliuered at any tyme through their gods? [As namely] Gosan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden, which were at Thalassar?
Jeremiah 25:25
All the kinges of Zimri, al the kinges of Elam, all the kinges of the Medes,
Ezekiel 32:24
There is Elam also, with all his people rounde about his graue: which all being slaine & fallen with the sworde, are gone downe vncircumcized vnder the earth, which neuerthelesse sometime brought feare into the lande of the lyuing: they beare their owne shame, with the other that be gone downe to the graue.
Daniel 1:2
And the Lord deliuered Iehoachim the king of Iuda into his hande, with part of the vessels of the house of God, which he caried away into the lande of Sennar to the house of his God, and he brought the vessels into his gods treasurie.
Zechariah 5:11
And he saide vnto me: Into the land of Sinnaar to builde it an house, & it shal be established, & set there vpon her owne place.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God,.... From whom they had revolted and backslidden; whose worship and service they had forsaken, and whose word and ordinances they had slighted and neglected, and had served idols, and had given into idolatry, superstition, and will worship; and are here exhorted to turn again to the Lord by repentance and reformation, to abandon their idols, and every false way, and cleave to the Lord with full purpose of heart; and the rather, since he was their God; not only their Creator, Preserver, and kind Benefactor, but their God, by his special choice of them above all people; by his covenant with them; by his redemption of them; and by their profession of him; and who was still their God, and ready to receive them, upon their return to him: and a thorough return is here meant, a returning "even unto" w, or quite up to the Lord thy God; it is not a going to him halfway, but a going quite up to his seat; falling down before him, acknowledging sin and backslidings, and having hold upon him by faith as their God, Redeemer, and Saviour: hence, from the way of speaking here used, the Jews x have a saying, as Kimchi observes,

"great is repentance, for it brings a man to the throne of glory;''

the imperative may be here used for the future, as some take it; and then it is a prediction of the conversion of Israel, "thou shalt return, O Israel" y; and which was in part fulfilled in the first times of the Gospel, which met with many of the Israelites dispersed among the Gentiles, and was the means of their conversion; and will have a greater accomplishment when all Israel shall be converted and saved:

for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity; or "though thou art fallen" z; into sin, and by it into ruin, temporal and spiritual; from a state of great prosperity and happiness, both in things civil and religious, into great adversity, and calamities of every sort; yet return, repent, consider from whence thou art fallen, and by what; or thou shall return, be recovered and restored, notwithstanding thy fall, and the low estate in which thou art. The Targum is,

"return to the fear of the Lord.''

w עד יהוה "asque ad Dominum", Montanus, Tigurine version, Oecolampadius, Schmidt, Burkius. x T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 86. 1. y שובה "revertere", i. e. "reverteris", Schmidt. z כי כשלת "etsi corruisti", Luther apud Tarnovium.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O Israel, return - (now, quite) unto the Lord your God The heavy and scarcely interrupted tide of denunciation is now past. Billow upon billow have rolled over Ephraim and the last wave discharged itself in the overwhelming, indiscriminating destruction of the seat of its strength. As a nation, it was to cease to be. its separate existence was a curse, not a blessing; the offspring of rivalry, matured by apostasy; the parent, in its turn, of jealousy, hatred, and mutual vexation.

But while the kingdom was past and gone, the children still remained heirs of the promises made to their fathers. As then, before, Hosea declared that Israel, after having long remained solitary, should in the end “seek the Lord and David their king” Hosea 3:5, so now, after these manifold denunciations of their temporal destruction, God not only invites them to repentance, but foretells that they should be wholly converted.

Every word is full of mercy. God calls them by the name of acceptance, which he had given to their forefather, Jacob; “O Israel.” He deigns to beseech them to return; “return now;” and that not “toward” but “quite up to” Himself, the unchangeable God, whose mercies and promises were as immutable as His Being. To Himself, the Unchangeable, God invites them to return; trod that, as being still their God. They had cast off their God; God had “not cast off His people whom He foreknew” Romans 11:2.

: “He entreats them not only to turn back and look toward the Lord with a partial and imperfect repentance, but not to leave off until they were come quite home to Him by a total and sincere repentance and amendment.” He bids them “return quite to” Himself, the Unchangeable God, and their God. “Great is repentance,” is a Jewish saying , “which maketh men to reach quite up to the Throne of glory.”

For thou hast fallen by thine iniquity - “This is the first ray of divine light on the sinner. God begins by discovering to him the abyss into which he has fallen,” and the way by which he fell. Their own iniquity it was, on which they had stumbled and so had fallen, powerless to rise, except through “His” call, whose “voice is with power” Psalms 29:4, and “Who giveth what He commandeth.” : “Ascribe not thy calamity,” He would say, “to thine own weakness, to civil dissension, to the disuse of miltary discipline, to want of wisdom in thy rulers, to the ambition and cruelty of the enemy, to reverse of fortune. These things had not gone against thee, hadst not thou gone to war with the law of thy God. Thou inflictest the deadly wound on thyself; thou destroyedst thyself. Not as fools vaunt, by fate, or fortune of war, but ‘by thine iniquity hast thou fallen.’ Thy remedy then is in thine own hand. ‘Return to thy God. ‘“

: “In these words, ‘by thine iniquity,” he briefly conveys, that each is to ascribe to himself the iniquity of all sin, of whatsoever he has been guilty, not defending himself, as Adam did, in whom we all, Jews and Gentiles, have sinned and fallen, as the Apostle says, ‘For we were by nature the children of wrath, even as others’ Ephesians 2:3. By adding actual, to that original, sin, Israel and every other nation falleth. He would say then, O Israel, be thou first converted, for thou hast need of conversion; ‘for thou hast fallen;” and confess this very thing, that ‘thou hast fallen by thine iniquity;’ for such confession is the beginning of conversion.”

But wherewith should he return?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XIV

By the terrible denunciation of vengeance which concludes the

preceding chapter, the prophet is led to exhort Israel to

repentance, furnishing them with a beautiful form of prayer,

very suitable to the occasion, 1-3.

Upon which God, ever ready to pardon the penitent, is

introduced making large promises of blessings, in allusion to

those copious dews which refresh the green herbs, and which

frequently denote, not only temporal salvation, but also the

rich and refreshing comforts of the Gospel, 4-7.

Their reformation from idolatry is foretold, and their

consequent prosperity, under the emblem of a green flourishing

fir tree, 8;

but these promises are confined to those who may bring forth

the fruits of righteousness, and the wicked are declared to

have no share in them, 9.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIV

Verse Hosea 14:1. O Israel, return unto the Lord — These words may be considered as addressed to the people now in captivity; suffering much, but having still much more to suffer if they did not repent. But it seems all these evils might yet be prevented, though so positively predicted, if the people would repent and return; and the very exhortation to this repentance shows that they still had power to repent, and that God was ready to save them and avert all these evils. All this is easily accounted for on the doctrine of the contingency of events, i.e., the poising a multitude of events on the possibility of being and not being, and leaving the will of man to turn the scale; and that God will not foreknow a thing as absolutely certain, which his will has determined to make contingent. A doctrine against which some solemn men have blasphemed, and philosophic infidels declaimed; but without which fate and dire necessity must be the universal governors, prayer be a useless meddling, and Providence nothing but the ineluctable adamantine chain of unchangeable events; all virtue is vice, and vice virtue, or there is no distinction between them, each being eternally determined and unalterably fixed by a sovereign and uncontrollable will and unvarying necessity, from the operation of which no soul of man can escape, and no occurrence in the universe be otherwise than it is. From such blasphemy, and from the monthly publications which avouch it, good Lord, deliver us!


 
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