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Hosea 2:2-5

King James Version (KJV)

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2. Plead with your mother, plead: for she [is] not my wife, neither [am] I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 3. Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. 4. And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [be] the children of whoredoms. 5. For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give [me] my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

Hosea 2:2-5 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Hosea 2:2

Theological / Devotional

Plead. The people of Israel are charged to contend, plead, with their mother, the nation of Israel, to repent and to return to God.

Not my wife. The prophet is believed to have used throughout ch. 2 the actual experiences of his unfaithful wife as a representation of unfaithful Israel. Since Israel had committed spiritual adultery with idols, she had naturally ceased to be the spouse of God. She was no longer united to Him by faith and love, and so God disowned her. Hosea depicts in ch. 2 God’s deep sorrow because of Israel’s unfaithfulness.

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