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Hosea 14:6

HOSEA—NOTE ON Hosea 14:6 his shoots shall spread out. An expanding kingdom is like the growth of a great tree: Israel’s original calling was to spread its influence through the whole world.

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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