Go take — This was, probably, done in vision, and was to be told to the people, as other visions were: it was parabolically proposed to them, and might have been sufficient to convince the Jews, would they have considered it, as David considered Nathan's parable. A wife of whoredoms and children — R... [ Continue Reading ]
The blood — The slaughters made by Jehu's hand or by his order, in Jezreel. The house of Jehu — Which had now possessed the throne, through the reigns of Jehoahaz, Jehoash, and Jeroboam; but the usurper, and his successors adhering to the idolatry of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and adding other sins... [ Continue Reading ]
At that day — When my vengeance hath overtaken the house of Jehu. Break — Weaken and by degrees quite break. The bow — All their warlike provision, power and skill. Jezreel — In this valley it is probable the bloodiest battles in the civil wars were fought; the reason whereof might be, because whoev... [ Continue Reading ]
Lo — ruhamah — Not pitied. Israel's name had been through many ages Ruhamah, that is, pitied. God had pitied them, and saved them from their enemies. But now Israel should be no more pitied, God would throw them up to the rage of usurpers, and conspirators.... [ Continue Reading ]
Save them — I will preserve them, that violence do not swallow them up, nor length of captivity wear them out; and this preserved remnant shall return and be planted in their own land, and there kept in safety. By the Lord — Particularly in that extraordinary deliverance of Hezekiah and Jerusalem, f... [ Continue Reading ]
Loammi — That is, not my people. Tho' once you were a peculiar people, you are so no more; you are cast off as you deserved. I will not be your God — I will be a God to you, no more than to any of the Heathen nations. This God executed when he gave them up into the hands of Salmaneser, who sent them... [ Continue Reading ]
The children of Israel — Not Israel after the flesh, not those very families that are carried captive. In the place — In those places, were a people dwelt who were not his people, there shall be a people of God. The living God — Who is the fountain of life to all his children, and who enables them t... [ Continue Reading ]
Then — This verse has both an historical and a spiritual sense; the one referring to the return out of Babylon, the other to a more glorious deliverance from a more miserable captivity. Judah — The two tribes, who adhered to the house of David. Israel — Some of the ten tribes who were incorporated w... [ Continue Reading ]