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CHAPTER 14
The Return and the Glorious Redemption
_ 1. The exhortation to return (Hosea 14:1) _
2. The glorious redemption (Hosea 14:4)
Hosea 14:1. This chapter is a wonderful finale to the message...
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HOSEA 14:1 (Heb. Hosea 14:2). ISRAEL'S REPENTANCE AND YAHWEH'S
FORGIVENESS. The section begins with a passionate appeal to Israel to
repent and confess his sin (Hosea 14:1 f.). A promise of amendment...
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HIS SMELL. his fragrance, or be fragrant, like....
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_I will be as the dew_ Rather, AS THE NIGHT-MIST, i.e. the masses of
vapour (Hebr. _tal_) brought by the damp westerly winds of summer (see
on Hosea 6:4). -In the strict scientific sense of the word,...
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Jehovah, in answer, describes the blessings which He will give. The
imagery reminds us of the Song of Songs; notice especially the
references to the lily and to Lebanon....
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DISCOURSE: 1177
THE FRUITS OF GOD’S FAVOUR
Hosea 14:5. I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the
lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread,
and his beauty shall...
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I WILL BE AS THE DEW, &C.— These verses contain gracious promises of
God's favour upon Israel's conversion, represented by different
metaphors. In the fifth verse, it is described by that refreshment,...
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PEACE REMAINSLAVED
TEXT: Hosea 14:4-6
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I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger
is turned away from him.
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I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the...
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His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree,
and his smell as Lebanon.
HIS BRANCHES SHALL SPREAD - shoots, or suckers.
AND HIS BEAUTY SHALL BE AS THE OLIVE - which never...
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OLIVE] the emblem of fatness and fertility.
8. This v. passes into a sort of dialogue between Ephraim and God.
Thus:
_Ephraim_. WHAT HAVE I TO DO ANY MORE WITH IDOLS? i.e. I will in
future have noth...
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ISRAEL WILL SURELY REPENT AND BE FORGIVEN
Hosea makes a touching final appeal for repentance. He assures Israel
of God's mercy, and closes with a description of the blessings that
will follow the ren...
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THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING
HOSEA
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 14
GOD CALLS TO ISRAEL TO RETURN TO HIM
V1 Return to the *Lord your God, people of Israel.
Your *sin has made you fall....
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AS THE DEW. — For this imagery see Psalms 130:3. Properly it is “a
copious mist, shedding small invisible rain, that comes in rich
abundance every night in the hot weather, when west or north-west
win...
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_[Hosea 14:7]_ יֵֽלְכוּ֙ יֹֽנְקֹותָ֔יו וִ
יהִ֥י כַ...
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2. THE LAST JUDGMENT
Hosea 13:1 - Hosea 14:1
The crisis draws on. On the one hand Israel's sin, accumulating, bulks
ripe for judgment. On the other the times grow more fatal, or the
prophet more tha...
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"I WILL BE AS THE DEW"
Hosea 14:2
LIKE the Book of Amos, the Book of Hosea, after proclaiming the
people's inevitable doom, turns to a blessed prospect of their
restoration to favor with God. It will...
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“I WILL HEAL THEIR BACKSLIDING”
Hosea 13:15-16; Hosea 14:1-9
The prophet here ransacks the world of nature for phrases sufficiently
expressive of his transports of joy. The whole world seems laid und...
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The cycle closes with the final call of the prophet, and the promise
of Jehovah. The call was to the people to return, because by iniquity
they had fallen. The method suggested was to bring the words...
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_Dew. Israel has been like a plant dried up, chap. xiii. 15. ---
Libanus. The cedars were tall and bulky, being well rooted._...
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Here we have the second division of the Chapter, in a Cluster of the
richest promises. Reader! contemplate the Lord Jesus in all these
precious things, (for He is the speaker), and oh! for grace, that...
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The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy
Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so
much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...
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_‘I WILL BE AS THE DEW UNTO ISRAEL’_
‘I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and
cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his
beauty shall be as the olive...
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XIII. CONCLUSION
A. And we will close with the Lord's desire for Israel and within
these verse is also His desire for all of his children
1. Hosea 14:1-9 (NASB) Return, O Israel, to the Lord your Go...
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The Prophet goes on with the same subject, but joins the beginning of
the first verse with the second clause of the former verse. He had
said that the roots of the people would be deep when God should...
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Chapter 14. It is this last work that we find in chapter 14 of the
prophet. Israel, returning to Jehovah, acknowledges his iniquity, and
addresses himself to the grace of his God. Thus only could he r...
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HIS BRANCHES SHALL SPREAD,.... As the well rooted cedars in Lebanon;
see Numbers 24:6. This respects the propagation of the church of God,
and the interest of Christ in the world, as in the first time...
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_His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree,
and his smell as Lebanon._
Ver. 6. _His branches shall spread_] Heb. shall walk, or expatiate;
shall reach out, and stretch them...
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_I will be as the dew unto Israel_ These verses contain gracious
promises of God's favour, and of blessings upon Israel's conversion,
represented by different metaphors. These are first described by t...
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His branches shall spread, as he nourishes and develops with vigorous
life, AND HIS BEAUTY SHALL BE AS THE OLIVE-TREE, with its evergreen
leaves and rich-gleaming fruit, AND HIS SMELL AS LEBANON, with...
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A FINAL EXHORTATION TO RETURN, WITH A PROMISE OF REDEMPTION.
After having shown the apostate Israelites in various ways in what
their guilt consisted, the Lord here once more appeals to them to
retur...
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SPREAD:
_ Heb._ shall go...
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4-8 Israel seeks God's face, and they shall not seek it in vain. His
anger is turned from them. Whom God loves, he loves freely; not
because they deserve it, but of his own good pleasure. God will be...
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HIS BRANCHES, his tenderest branches which are new sprung out, shall
gather strength, not be broken off, but by these shall they multiply
in number of boughs. SHALL SPREAD; grow great and beautiful, a...
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‘His branches will spread, and his beauty will be as the olive-tree,
and his odour as Lebanon.'
As a result of their strong roots their branches will spread, the sign
of a healthy tree, and they will...
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ISRAEL ARE CALLED ON TO RETURN TO YHWH WITH THE ASSURANCE THAT WHEN
THEY DO SO YHWH WILL RESTORE THEM AND LOVE THEM FREELY, AND THEY THEN
LEARN OF ALL THE GOOD THINGS THAT HE HAS IN STORE FOR THEM AS...
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Hosea 14:5
I God begins: "I will be as the dew unto Israel." Of dew we may notice
several things. (1) It is beautiful and glistening; but the process by
which it is formed, and the way by which it com...
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Hosea 14:1. _O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast
fallen by thine iniquity._
When we fall by sin, we must regain our comfort by going back to the
place where we lost it: «Return unto...
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Hosea 14:1. _O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast
fallen by thine iniquity._
Let anyone here, who has turned aside from the Lord, hear these tender
pleading words, and then yield to...
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Hosea 14:1. _O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God;_
Bless his name that he is still thy God, however much thou mayest have
backslidden, thou hast not lost thy right to claim him as thy God, for
he...
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Hosea 14:1. _O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast
fallen by thine iniquity._
Come back, poor wanderer! My brother or my sister, if your heart has
grown cold toward your Lord and Mast...
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CONTENTS: Entreaty and promise to Israel. Restoration foretold.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: Though backslidings from God are dangerous diseases of the
soul, yet they are not incurable, for God grac...
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Hosea 14:2. _So will we render the calves of our lips._ The fruit of
our lips, in worship, in praise, and in all holy obedience. The
sacrifices of thanksgiving are pleasing to God.
Hosea 14:3. _In the...
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_I will be as the dew unto Israel._
DIVINE RELATIONSHIP AND HUMAN RESPONSIVENESS
Through the picturesque forms and utterances of Hebrew prophecy there
breaks a very deep and generous sympathy with th...
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HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 14:1 Hosea finishes his book with a series of
moving appeals to the wayward northern kingdom to return to the Lord
and find healing and covenant renewal.
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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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CRITICAL NOTES.]
HOSEA 14:5.] This love will be manifest in great blessings. DEW] Not
the early, but constant, refreshing, and enlivening dew (ch. Hosea
6:3; Proverbs 19:12;...
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EXPOSITION
HOSEA 14:1
The foregoing part of this book abounds with denunciations of
punishment; this closing chapter superabounds with promises of pardon.
Wave after wave of threatened wrath had roll...
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Chapter 14 ends God's plea with the people. His arms are always open;
He's always ready to forgive.
O Israel, [God said,] return unto the LORD thy God (Hsa Hosea 14:1);
You've gone away, you've turn...
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2 Corinthians 2:14; 2 Corinthians 2:15; Daniel 4:10; Ezekiel 17:5;...
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His branches — His branches which are new sprung out, shall gather
strength, and shall multiply in number. The olive — tree — Which
retains its verdure all the winter and is rich in fruit; so the true...