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Text -- Hosea 2:1-10 (NET)
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2:1 Then you will call your brother , “My People ” (Ammi)! You will call your sister , “Pity” (Ruhamah )!
Idolatrous Israel Will Be Punished Like a Prostitute
2:2 Plead earnestly with your mother (for she is not my wife , and I am not her husband ), so that she might put an end to her adulterous lifestyle , and turn away from her sexually immoral behavior .
2:3 Otherwise , I will strip her naked , and expose her like she was when she was born . I will turn her land into a wilderness and make her country a parched land , so that I might kill her with thirst .
2:4 I will have no pity on her children , because they are children conceived in adultery .
2:5 For their mother has committed adultery ; she who conceived them has acted shamefully . For she said , “I will seek out my lovers ; they are the ones who give me my bread and my water , my wool , my flax , my olive oil , and my wine .
The Lord’s Discipline Will Bring Israel Back
2:6 Therefore , I will soon fence her in with thorns ; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way .
2:7 Then she will pursue her lovers , but she will not catch them; she will seek them, but she will not find them. Then she will say , “I will go back to my husband , because I was better off then than I am now .”
Agricultural Fertility Withdrawn from Israel
2:8 Yet until now she has refused to acknowledge that I was the one who gave her the grain , the new wine , and the olive oil ; and that it was I who lavished on her the silver and gold – which they used in worshiping Baal !
2:9 Therefore , I will take back my grain during the harvest time and my new wine when it ripens ; I will take away my wool and my flax which I had provided in order to clothe her .
2:10 Soon I will expose her lewd nakedness in front of her lovers , and no one will be able to rescue her from me!
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Condescension of God |
Israel |
Baal |
Church |
Backsliders |
Flax |
Fornication |
Idolatry |
Oil |
LOVER |
WOOL |
Lovers |
TRADE |
Ammi |
Afflictions and Adversities |
Ingratitude |
Nakedness |
Wicked |
Breast |
MARRIAGE |
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NET Notes -> Hos 2:1; Hos 2:1; Hos 2:2; Hos 2:2; Hos 2:2; Hos 2:2; Hos 2:2; Hos 2:2; Hos 2:2; Hos 2:3; Hos 2:4; Hos 2:4; Hos 2:4; Hos 2:4; Hos 2:5; Hos 2:5; Hos 2:5; Hos 2:6; Hos 2:6; Hos 2:6; Hos 2:6; Hos 2:6; Hos 2:7; Hos 2:7; Hos 2:7; Hos 2:7; Hos 2:7; Hos 2:8; Hos 2:8; Hos 2:8; Hos 2:8; Hos 2:8; Hos 2:8; Hos 2:8; Hos 2:9; Hos 2:9; Hos 2:9; Hos 2:9; Hos 2:9; Hos 2:9; Hos 2:10; Hos 2:10; Hos 2:10
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NET Notes: Hos 2:2 Heb “[put away] her immoral behavior from between her breasts.” Cf. KJV “her adulteries”; NIV “the unfaithfulness.”...
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NET Notes: Hos 2:5 Heb “my drinks.” Many English versions use the singular “drink” here, but cf. NCV, TEV, CEV “wine.”
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NET Notes: Hos 2:9 This announcement of judgment is extremely ironic and forcefully communicates poetic justice: The punishment will fit the crime. The Israelites were l...
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