UHoseya 2:11

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

11 Ndoluphelisa lonke uvuyo lwakhe, umthendeleko wakhe, nokuthwasa kwenyanga kuye, neesabatha zakhe, namaxesha akhe onke amisiweyo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cause: Hosea 9:1-5, Isaiah 24:7-11, Jeremiah 7:34, Jeremiah 16:9, Jeremiah 25:10, Ezekiel 26:13, Nahum 1:10, Revelation 18:22, Revelation 18:23

her feast: 1 Kings 12:32, Isaiah 1:13, Isaiah 1:14, Amos 5:21, Amos 8:3, Amos 8:5, Amos 8:9, Amos 8:10

Reciprocal: Leviticus 23:2 - the feasts Numbers 28:11 - in the beginnings Isaiah 24:8 - General Hosea 9:5 - in

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will also cause all her mirth to cease,.... As it must in course, this being her case, as before described, whether considered in individuals, or as a body politic, or in their church state, as follows:

her feast days; which the Jews understand of the three feasts of tabernacles, passover, and pentecost; typical of Christ's tabernacling in human nature; of his being the passover sacrificed for us; and of the firstfruits of the Spirit; which being come, the shadows are gone and vanished, and these feasts are no more: her new moons, and her sabbaths; the first day of every month, and the seventh day of every week, observed for religious exercises; typical of the light the church receives from Christ, and the rest it has in him; and he, the body and substance of them, being come, these are no more, Colossians 2:16:

and all her solemn feasts; all others, whether of God's appointment or their own; all are made to cease of right, if not in fact; the law of commandments, contained in ordinances, being abolished by Christ, and the Jews without a priest, sacrifice, and ephod, Ephesians 2:14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will also cause her mirth to cease, her feast days ... - Israel had forsaken the temple of God; despised His priests; received from Jeroboam others whom God had not chosen; altered, at least, one of the festivals; celebrated all, where God had forbidden; and worshiped the Creator under the form of a brute creature (see Introduction). Yet they kept the great “feast-days,” whereby they commemorated His mercies to their forefathers; the “new moons,” whereby the first of every month was given to God; “the sabbaths,” whereby they owned God as the Creator of all things; and all the other “solemn feasts,” whereby they thanked God for acts of His special providence, or for His annual gifts of nature, and condemned themselves for trusting in false gods for those same gifts, and for associating His creatures with Himself. But man, even while he disobeys God, does not like to part with Him altogether, but would serve Him enough to soothe his own conscience, or as far as he can without parting with his sin which he loves better. Jeroboam retained all of God’s worship, which he could combine with his own political ends; and even in Ahab’s time Israel “halted between two opinions,” and Judah “sware both by the Lord and by Malcham” Zephaniah 1:5, the true God and the false. All this their worship was vain, because contrary to the will of God. Yet since God says, “I will take away all her mirth,” they had, what they supposed to be, religious “mirth” in their “feasts,” fulfilling as they thought, the commandment of God, “Thou shalt rejoice in thy feasts” Deuteronomy 16:14. She could have no real joy, since true joy is “in the Lord” Philippians 4:4. So, in order that she might not deceive herself anymore, God says that he will take away that feigned formal service of Himself, which they blended with the real service of idols, and will remove the hollow outward joy, that, through repentance, they might come to the true joy in Him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 2:11. Her feast days — Jerusalem shall be pillaged and destroyed; and therefore all her joyous assemblies, and religious feasts, &c., shall cease.