Hos 1:4, 6, 9 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 4. Call his name Jezreel ] that is, God will disperse . This seems to intimate that a dispersion or sowing of Israel shall take place; which happened under Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, . But the word refers also to the name of a city , where Jehu slew Jezebel and all the children of Ahab. . This was one of those prophetic names which we so often meet with in the Scriptures; e.g. Japheth Abraham, Israel, Judah, Joshua, Zerubbabel, Solomon, Sheer-jashub, &c. The blood of Jezreel ] Not Jehu's vengeance on Ahab's family, but his acts of cruelty while he resided at Jezreel, a city in the tribe of Issachar, , where the kings of Israel had a palace, . Will cause to cease the kingdom ] Either relating to the cutting off of the kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians, see , or to the ceasing of the kingdom of Israel from the house of Jehu , , and which was fulfilled, .

‏ Hosea 1:4

Verse 4. Call his name Jezreel] that is, God will disperse. This seems to intimate that a dispersion or sowing of Israel shall take place; which happened under Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, 2Ki 17:5, 6. But the word refers also to the name of a city, where Jehu slew Jezebel and all the children of Ahab. 2Ki 9:10, 36; 10:6.

This was one of those prophetic names which we so often meet with in the Scriptures; e.g. Japheth Abraham, Israel, Judah, Joshua, Zerubbabel, Solomon, Sheer-jashub, &c.

The blood of Jezreel] Not Jehu's vengeance on Ahab's family, but his acts of cruelty while he resided at Jezreel, a city in the tribe of Issachar, Jos 19:18, where the kings of Israel had a palace, 1Ki 21:1.

Will cause to cease the kingdom] Either relating to the cutting off of the kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians, see Ho 1:6, or to the ceasing of the kingdom of Israel from the house of Jehu, 2Ki 10:30, and which was fulfilled, 2Ki 15:10.

-Newcome.

‏ Hosea 1:6

Verse 6. Call her Lo-ruhamah] , "Not having obtained mercy." This also was a prophetic or typical name; and the reason of its imposition is immediately given:

For I will no more have mercy] ki lo osiph od arachem, "For I will no more add to have mercy upon the house of Israel." This refers to the total destruction of that kingdom.

‏ Hosea 1:9

Verse 9. Call his name Lo-ammi] Lo-ammi, "Not my people;" for which the reason is immediately given:

Ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.] The word GOD is not added here by any of the ancient versions or MSS.; and yet the construction absolutely requires it, as Houbigant properly observes, who thinks the present reading lo eheyeh lachem, "I will not be to you," a corruption of the word eloheychem, "your God." It is strange that no various reading occurs on this verse in any MS. yet discovered. In two of the oldest of mine there is a blank of half a line left after the last word; and so it is in the Masoretic Bibles, though the sense is not complete; for it is evidently continued in the following verse. Probably God refers to the words, Ex 3:14: I am that I am. I am, eheyeh,-I shall be, hath sent me unto you. I will not be your eheyeh, i.e., I will not be your God.