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Izhibhalo Ezingcwele
UHoseya 1:1
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
word: Jeremiah 1:2, Jeremiah 1:4, Ezekiel 1:3, Joel 1:1, Jonah 1:1, Zechariah 1:1, John 10:35, 2 Peter 1:21
Hosea: Romans 9:25, Osee
in: Isaiah 1:1, Micah 1:1
Uzziah: 2 Kings 14:16-29, 2 Kings 15:1, 2 Kings 15:2, 2 Kings 15:32, 2 Kings 16:1-20, 2 Kings 18:1-37, 2 Chronicles 26:1 - 2 Chronicles 32:33
Reciprocal: Numbers 13:16 - Oshea 1 Samuel 29:11 - Jezreel 1 Kings 17:2 - General 2 Kings 14:23 - Jeroboam 2 Kings 16:20 - Hezekiah 2 Chronicles 26:3 - Uzziah 2 Chronicles 27:1 - twenty and five 2 Chronicles 28:1 - Ahaz 2 Chronicles 29:1 - Hezekiah Proverbs 25:1 - which Amos 1:1 - in the Zephaniah 1:1 - word Zechariah 5:7 - is Luke 3:2 - the word
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The word of the Lord that came unto Hosea,.... Whose name is the same with Joshua and Jesus, and signifies a saviour; he was in some things a type of Christ the Saviour, and prophesied of him, and salvation by him; and was the instrument and means of saving men, as all true prophets were, and faithful ministers of the word are: to him the word of the Lord, revealing his mind and will, was brought by the Spirit of God, and impressed upon his mind; and it was committed to him to be delivered unto others. This is the general title of the whole book, showing the divine original and authority of it:
the son of Beeri; which is added to distinguish him from another of the same name; and perhaps his father's name was famous in Israel, and therefore mentioned. The Jews have a rule, that where a prophet's father's name is mentioned, it shows that he was the son of a prophet; but this is not to be depended upon; and some of them say that this is the same with Beerah, a prince of the Reubenites, who was carried captive by Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, 1 Chronicles 5:6, but the name is different; nor does the chronology seem so well to agree with him; and especially he cannot be the father of Hosea, if he was of the tribe of Issachar, as some have affirmed:
in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel; from whence it appears that Hosea prophesied long, and lived to a great age; for from the last year of Jeroboam, which was the fifteenth of Uzziah, to the first of Hezekiah, must be sixty nine years; for Jeroboam reigned forty one years, and in the twenty seventh of his reign began Uzziah or Azariah to reign over Judah, and he reigned fifty two years, 2 Kings 14:23, so that Uzziah reigned thirty seven years after the death of Jeroboam, through which time Hosea prophesied; Jotham after him reigned sixteen years, and so many reigned Ahaz, 2 Kings 15:23, so that without reckoning any part, either of Jeroboam's reign, or Hezekiah's, he must prophesy sixty nine years, and, no doubt, did upwards of seventy, very probably eighty, the Jews say ninety; and allowing him to be twenty four or five years of age when he begun to prophesy, or only twenty (for it is certain he was at an age fit to marry, as appears by the prophecy), he: must live to be upwards of a hundred years; and in all probability he lived to see not only part of Israel carried captive by Tiglathpileser, which is certain; but the entire destruction of the ten tribes by Shalmaneser, which he prophesied of. Jeroboam king of Israel is mentioned last, though prior to these kings of Judah; because Hosea's prophecy is chiefly against Israel, and began in his reign, when they were in a flourishing condition. It appears from hence that Isaiah, Amos, and Micah, were contemporary with him; see Isaiah 1:1, within this compass of time Hosea prophesied lived Lycurgus the famous lawgiver of the Lacedemonians, and Hesiod the Greek poet; and Rome began to be built.
h Shalsheleth Hakabala, fol. 12. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The word of the Lord, that came unto Hosea - Hosea, at the very beginning of his prophecy, declares that all this, which he delivered, came, not from his own mind but from God. As Paul says, “Paul an Apostle, not of men neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father.” He refers all to God, and claims all obedience to Him. That word came to him; it existed then before, in the mind of God. It was first God’s, then it became the prophet’s, receiving it from God. So it is said, “the word of God came to John” Luke 3:2.
Hosea - i. e., “Salvation, or, the Lord saveth.” The prophet bare the name of our Lord Jesus, whom he foretold and of whom he was a type. “Son of Beeri, i. e., my well or welling-forth.” God ordained that the name of his father too should signify truth. From God, as from the fountain of life, Hosea drew the living waters, which he poured out to the people. “With joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation” Isaiah 12:3.
In the days of Uzziah ... - Hosea, although a prophet of Israel, marks his prophecy by the names of the kings of Judah, because the kingdom of Judah was the kingdom of the theocracy, the line of David to which the promises of God were made. As Elisha, to whose office he succeeded, turned away from Jehoram 2 Kings 3:13-14, saying, “get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother,” and owned Jehoshaphat king of Judah only, so, in the title of his prophecy, Hosea at once expresses that the kingdom of Judah alone was legitimate. He adds the name of Jeroboam, partly as the last king of Israel whom, by virtue of His promise to Jehu, God helped; partly to show that God never left Israel unwarned. Jeroboam I was warned first by the prophet 1 Kings 13:0, who by his own untimely death, as well as in his prophecy, was a witness to the strictness of God’s judgments, and then by Ahijah 1 Kings 14:0; Baasha by Jehu, son of Hanani 1 Kings 16:0; Ahab, by Elijah and Micaiah son of Imla; Ahaziah by Elijah 2 Kings 1:0; Jehoram by Elisha who exercised his office until the days of Joash 2 Kings 13:14.
So, in the days of Jeroboam II, God raised up Hosea, Amos and Jonah. “The kings and people of Israel then were without excuse, since God never ceased to send His prophets among them; in no reign did the voice of the prophets fail, warning of the coming wrath of God, until it came.” While Jeroboam was recovering to Israel a larger rule than it had ever had since it separated from Judah, annexing to it Damascus 2 Kings 14:28 which had been lost to Judah even in the days of Solomon, and from which Israel had of late so greatly suffered, Hosea was sent to forewarn it of its destruction. God alone could utter “such a voice of thunder out of the midst of such a cloudless sky.” Jeroboam doubtless thought that his house would, through its own strength, survive the period which God had pledged to it. “But temporal prosperity is no proof either of stability or of the favor of God. Where the law of God is observed, there, even amid the pressure of outward calamity, is the assurance of ultimate prosperity. Where God is disobeyed, there is the pledge of coming destruction. The seasons when men feel most secure against future chastisement, are often the preludes of the most signal revolutions.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET HOSEA
Chronological Notes relative to the commencement of Hosea's
prophesying, upon the supposition that this event took place
in the last year of the reign of Jeroboam II., king of Israel
-Year of the world, according to the Usherian account, 3219.
-Year of the Julian period, 3929.
-Year since the Flood, 1563.
-Year from the vocation of Abram, 1136.
-Year from the foundation of Solomon's temple, 227.
-Year before the First Olympiad, 9.
-Year before the building of Rome, 32.
-Year before the vulgar era of Christ's nativity, 785.
-Cycle of the Sun, 9.
-Cycle of the Moon, 15.
-Second year of Coenus, the second king of Macedon; which was the thirtieth from the foundation of the monarchy.
-Thirteenth year of Agamestor, perpetual archon of the Athenians.
-Thirteenth year of Ardysus, king of Lydia.
-Twelfth year of Amulius Sylvius, king of the Albans.
-Twenty-fifth year of Charilaus, king of the Lacedaemonians.
-Forty-first year of Jeroboam II., king of Israel.
-Twenty-sixth year of Uzziah, king of Judah.
CHAPTER I
Under the figure of a wife proving false to her marriage vows,
and bearing children that would follow her example, the prophet
represents the shameful idolatry of the ten tribes, which
provoked God to cast them off. The whole passage is information
by action instead of words. This names of the children are all
emblematical. The first is intended to put Israel in mind of
their unrepented guilt, and the acts of cruelty committed in
their palace of Jezreel, (1 Kings 21:1.)
The second and third, signifying not finding mercy, and not my
people, denote that, in consequence of their guilt, they were
to be rejected of God, 1-9.
God promises, however, to repair the loss to his Church by
calling in the Gentiles, 10;
and by uniting all the children of God under one head, the
Messiah, in the latter days, 11.
NOTES ON CHAP. I
Verse Hosea 1:1. Hosea, the son of Beeri — See the preceding account of this prophet.
In the days of Uzziah, c. — If we suppose, says Bp. Newcome, that Hosea prophesied during the course of sixty-six years, and place him from the year 790 before Christ to the year 724, he will have exercised his office eight years in the reign of Jeroboam the second, thirty-three years in the reign of Uzziah, the whole reigns of Jotham and Ahaz, and three years in the reign of Hezekiah but will not have survived the taking of Samaria. But see the preceding account of this prophet.
I think the first verse to be a title to this book added by the compiler of his prophecies, and that it relates more to facts which took place in those reigns, and had been predicted by Hosea, who would only be said to have prophesied under an those kings, by his predictions, which were consecutively fulfilled under them. By those, though dead, he continued to speak. The prophet's work properly begins at Hosea 1:2; hence called, "The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea."
