Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. Israel's spiritual fornication, and her threatened punishment: yet a promise of God's restored favour, when chastisements have produced their designed effect. SAY YE UNT... [ Continue Reading ]
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; PLEAD WITH YOUR MOTHER, PLEAD - expostulate. MOTHER - i:e. the nation collectively. The address is to 'her ch... [ Continue Reading ]
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. LEST I STRIP HER NAKED, AND SET HER AS IN THE DAY THAT SHE WAS BORN - (, "In the day thou wast born, thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. AND I WILL NOT HAVE MERCY UPON HER CHILDREN - not even her individual members shall escape the doom of the nation collectively, because they are individually guilty.... [ Continue Reading ]
For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. FOR THEIR MOTHER ... HATH DONE SHAMEFULLY - literally, hath made shameful. The silence a... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. I WILL HEDGE UP THY WAY WITH THORNS, AND MAKE A WALL, THAT SHE SHALL NOT FIND HER PATHS - (Job 19:18; Lamentations 3:7; Lamentations 3:9, "He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out ...... [ Continue Reading ]
For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. FOR SHE DID NOT KNOW THAT I GAVE HER CORN, AND WINE, AND OIL - I; that it was I who gave her corn, not the idols, as she thought: the "lovers" alluded to in . "She did... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness. THEREFORE WILL I RETURN, AND TAKE AWAY - i:e., I will take back again, by sending storms, locusts, and Assyrian invaders. I wi... [ Continue Reading ]
And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. AND NOW WILL I DISCOVER HER LEWDNESS - [ nablutaah (H5040)], literally, folly, and so foulness. Scripture regards sin and folly as essentially one; and holiness and wisdom as synonymous.... [ Continue Reading ]
I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. I WILL ALSO CAUSE ALL HER MIRTH TO CEASE, HER FEAST DAYS - of Jeroboam's appointment, distinct from the Mosaic (, "Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. I WILL DESTROY HER VINES AND HER FIG TREES, WHEREOF SHE HATH SAID, THESE ARE MY REWARDS THAT MY LOV... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD. I WILL VISIT UPON HER THE DAYS OF BAALIM - the days consecrated to the Baals, or various images... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. THEREFORE - rather, Nevertheless (Henderson). The English version gives a more lovely idea of God. That which would provoke all others to unappeasable wrath, Israel's perversity and consequent... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. AND I WILL GIVE HER VINEYARDS FROM THENCE - "from thence," when I shall cause her to retur... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. THOU SHALT CALL ME ISHI, AND SHALT CALL ME NO MORE BAALI - `my Husband ... no more, my Lord.' Affection is the, prominent idea in Husband;' rule, in 'Lord.' The chief reason for the substi... [ Continue Reading ]
For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. FOR I WILL TAKE AWAY THE NAMES OF BAALIM OUT OF HER MOUTH, AND THEY SHALL NO MORE BE REMEMBERED BY THEIR NAME - "Baalim," plural, expressing the various images of Baal, which, according to... [ Continue Reading ]
And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely. AND IN THAT DAY WILL I MAKE A COV... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I WILL BETROTH THEE UNTO ME FOREVER; YEA, I WILL BETROTH THEE UNTO ME IN RIGHTEOUSNESS ... I WILL EVEN BETROTH THEE UNTO ME IN FAITHFULNESS. "Betro... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; IN THAT DAY - of grace to Israel. I WILL HEAR, SAITH THE LORD, I WILL HEAR THE HEAVENS, AND THEY SHALL HEAR THE EARTH - personification. However many be the intermediate i... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE EARTH SHALL HEAR THE CORN, AND THE WINE, AND THE OIL; AND THEY SHALL HEAR JEZREEL._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God. AND I WILL SOW HER UNTO ME IN THE EARTH - referring to the meaning of Jezreel (). Israel r... [ Continue Reading ]