Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 1:7

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 1:7 - 1:7

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 1:7 - 1:7

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1:11 - 1:11

Judah is only incidentally mentioned to form a contrast to Israel.

by the Lord their God - more emphatic than “by Myself”; by that Jehovah (Me) whom they worship as their God, whereas ye despise Him.

not ... by bow - on which ye Israelites rely (Hos 1:5, “the bow of Israel”); Jeroboam II was famous as a warrior (2Ki 14:25). Yet it was not by their warlike power Jehovah would save Judah (1Sa 17:47; Psa 20:7). The deliverance of Jerusalem from Sennacherib (2Ki 19:35), and the restoration from Babylon, are herein predicted.