Hosea 2:1

HOSEA CHAPTER 2 The people are exhorted to forsake idolatry, which is threatened with severe judgments, Hosea 2:1. God allureth them with promises of reconciliation, Hosea 2:14. In the two last verses of the former chapter, the prophet did from God promise marvellous mercy to Judah and Israel, to that remnant of the seed of Abraham who returned out of captivity, and to the converted Gentiles; now in this verse he calls upon them to acknowledge the mercy, and to excite one another to mutual love and esteem. Say; declare, own, or publish. Ye; who of no people are made a people, who were once unpitied and unregarded, but now have obtained mercy; you that are the sons of the living God, whether Jews or Gentiles. You Christians, as the apostle applies the words, Romans 9:24,25; and so in the ant, type no doubt they are to be understood; but in the letter and type, the persons here mentioned are those who among this people were pious, feared God, and kept his law; some such there were among them. Unto your brethren; to those of the ten tribes who are, and will be these forty years, your brethren. Ammi; let them know that yet they are the people of God, and repentance may remedy all; they are still within the covenant of their father Abraham; if they will, as their father. walk with God, all shall be well. And to your sisters, Ruhamah: in a decorum, to (what before was made an emblem of Israel) the prophet's daughter, Lo-ruhamah, some are here directed to reason (as it is Hosea 2:2) with her, i.e. with Israel, whose name is yet Ruhamah, and it may be so still, if Israel will retain it by returning to God.