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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 2:16 - 2:16
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Ishi ... no more Baali - “my Husband ... no more my Lord.” Affection is the prominent idea in “Husband”; rule, in “Lord.” The chief reason for the substitution of Husband for Lord appears in Hos 2:17; namely, Baali, the Hebrew for my Lord, had been perverted to express the images of Baal, whose name ought not to be taken on their lips (Exo 23:13; Zec 13:2).