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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Hosea 3:5

David, their king. That is, Christ, who is of the house of David. (Challoner) --- After the captivity, the Jews submitted to Zorobabel. Yet this only foreshewed a more sincere conversion to Jesus Christ. In fact, the house of David never regained the throne, (Calmet) and it is not clear that Zorobabel had any authority over the people. (Haydock) --- Christ is the literal object of this prediction. (Calmet)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 3:5. _AFTERWARD SHALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL RETURN_] Shall _repent_ of their iniquities, _and seek the Lord_; lay aside their _mock worship_, and serve the true God _in spirit and in trut...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AFTERWARD SHALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL RETURN - Elsewhere it is said more fully, “return to the Lord.” It expresses more than “turning” or even conversion to God. It is not conversion only, but revers...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 3 ISRAEL'S PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE _ 1. The past (Hosea 3:1) _ 2. The present (Hosea 3:4) 3. The future (Hosea 3:5) Hosea 3:1. The

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    The prophet, bidden yet again to love a woman, who is loved by another and is an adulteress, in this respect imitating Yahweh's love for His unfaithful people, buys her out of slavery and subjects her...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AFTERWARD, &C. This mark of time has not yet been reached. It corresponds with the "many days" of Hosea 3:4. See the Structure above ("4-. "). RETURN, &C.: i. e. return [to Jehovah]. See Hosea 5:15,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _return_ i.e. from their evil courses of disobedience to their God and to the legitimate royal house. _David their king_ There is a great body of authority for regarding this as an expression for the...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE UGLINESS OF SIN -- HOSEA 3:1-5:_ When you begin to talk about sin some get angry and others mourn its ugliness. Gomer had proven herself to be an unfaithful wife to the prophet of God. Israel had...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1145 THE RESTORATION OF THE JEWS Hosea 3:5. _Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in t...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SHALL ABIDE, &C.— This threatening was fulfilled upon the ten tribes, when they were carried captive by Salmaneser; but was fulfilled in a remarkable manner upon the whole n...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    LOVE RECONCILINGGOMER LOVED TEXT: Hosea 3:1-5 1 And Jehovah said unto me, Go again, love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress, even as Jehovah loveth the children of Israel, though they...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days. AFTERWARD - after the long period ("m...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RETURN] often used of a new line of action or change of life: cp. Hosea 14:7. DAVID THEIR KING] The idolatrous worship of Israel was closely connected with their political schism: see 1 Kings 12:27. H...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE ATTEMPTS TO RECLAIM THE ERRING WIFE In an episode in the life of Hosea and his relations with Gomer (cp. Hosea 2:14) the prophet finds a parable of Jehovah's punishment of Israel. Having bought ba...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 3 HOSEA RETURNS TO HIS WIFE V1 Then the *Lord said to me again, ‘Go and show your love to your wife again. You must love her al...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    DAVID THEIR KING. — Meaning the predicted representative of the Davidic dynasty. Thus Rehoboam and his house are spoken of as “David” (1 Kings 12:16). The phrase “latter days” is used indefinitely of...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַחַ֗ר יָשֻׁ֨בוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וּ בִקְשׁוּ֙...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Hosea 2:1; Hosea 3:1 THE SIN AGAINST LOVE Hosea 1:1; Hosea 2:1; Hosea 3:1;

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “A DOOR OF HOPE” Hosea 2:14-23; Hosea 3:1-5 The valley of Achor was a long wild pass up through the hills. The prophet says that a door of hope would open there, like the Mont Cenis tunnel which lead...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Finally, the prophet was commanded to love and find and restore his sinning and wandering bride. Through his obedience he entered into fellowship with the amazing tenderness of God, and was thereby pr...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and (g) David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days. (g) This is meant of Christ's kingdo...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I beg the Reader to pause over these verses, and when he hath duly pondered their meaning, to consider at this moment the state of the Jews, and behold, how for ages and generations past, the predicti...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS PRECIOUS, precious Lord Jesus! let me pass by and pass over every ether thought and consideration furnished by this Chapter, to attend to thee, and to that lovely character of thine set fo...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The prophecy of Hosea naturally divides itself into two principal divisions with minor sections. The first consists of Hosea 1:1-11; Hosea 2:1-23; Hosea 3:1-5; the second, of the rest of the book. Wit...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    Death - Redemption Restoration I. INTRODUCTION A. Chapter 3 is only 5 verses but has been claimed, "One of the greatest prophetic passages in the Word of God." (J. Vernon McGee - Through The Bible V...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    But it follows, _Afterwards shall the children of Israel return and seek Jehovah their God, and David their king_. Here the Prophet shows by the fruit of their chastisement, that the Israelites had no...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 3 reveals another detail of the people's history during the time of their rejection, a rejection followed by their return to God. Israel should remain for a long time apart to wait for their G...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AFTERWARD SHALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL RETURN,.... The ten tribes of Israel, and also the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, which are included in the name of Israel, as Aben Ezra interprets it; and th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days. Ver. 5. _Afterward shall the children of...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Afterward shall the children of Israel return_ When they have lived a long time in this state, without any country or government of their own, without any temple or place of worship, and without the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord, their God, the Jewish Church after the exile being the organization in which the belief in the true God was still taught, AND DAVID, TH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE NEW MARRIAGE OF THE ADULTERESS. In a second symbolical marriage the faithful love of God, which for that very reason is also jealous and intends to lead to repentance, is pictured....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    4-5 Here is the application of the parable to Israel. They must long sit like a widow, stripped of all joys and honours; but shall at length be received again. Those that would seek the Lord so as to...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AFTERWARD; after these long and sore troubles have broken their hearts and opened their eyes. RETURN; repent; it is not a promise of return into their own country. SEEK THE LORD THEIR GOD, to know his...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 3:5 Afterward H310 children H1121 Israel H3478 return H7725 (H8799) seek H1245 (H8765) LORD H3068 God...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Afterward will the children of Israel return, and seek YHWH their God, and David their king, and will come with fear to YHWH and to his goodness in the latter days.' However, there will come a time w...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HOSEA IS CALLED ON TO TAKE ANOTHER WOMAN AS WIFE WHO WAS AN ADULTERESS, BUT WAS NOT TO HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH HER. THIS WAS AS A SIGN THAT ISRAEL TOO WAS TO LOSE HER RELATIONSHIP WITH YHWH, ALTHOU...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jehovah's undying love to Israel. The future kingdom on earth. CHARACTERS: God, Hosea. CONCLUSION: God's people (Israel) who have gone awhoring from Him must take upon themselves the shame...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Hosea 3:1. _Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress._ This action is forbidden by the law of Moses, and also by our Saviour. What then would become of the prophet's moral charact...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And shall fear the Lord and His goodness in the latter days._ GOODNESS PRODUCING FEAR There are three points here peculiarly worthy of our notice. The designation which is given to the Gospel dispen...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 3:1 Hosea returns to his marriage, which is still an image for God and Israel. Israel’s hope, like Judah’s, lies with the house of David. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 3:5 To call DAVID THEIR KING is significant for the northern kingdom, which has been rebelling against the house of David for two centuries. They must RETURN in order to be full pa...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 3:1.] The significant pair is introduced again with a fresh application. In a second symbolic marriage, the faithful, chastening love of God is set forth to adulterous Israel. L...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This short chapter contains two sections, of which the first, comprising Hosea 3:1, is a symbolic representation; and the second, consisting of Hosea 3:4 and Hosea 3:5, gives the explanatio...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Then said the LORD unto me (Hsa Hosea 3:1), Hosea is speaking here. Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, wh...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 12:16; Acts 15:16; Amos 9:11; Daniel 10:14; Daniel 2:28;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Return — Repent. And David — The Messiah who is the son of David. And his goodness — God and his goodness; that is, the good and gracious God. God in Christ and with Christ shall be worshipped. The la...

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