Hosea Quotations

A. The names of his children

      1. Jezreel, God will disperse

      2. Lo-rechamah, or Without mercy

      3. Lo-ammi, Thou art no longer my people

……How little we sell our soul for……

B. Hosea bought back his wife for just fifteen shekels of silver, and one and one-half homers of   barley.

      1. Fifteen shekels is half the price of a slave

      2. See Exodus 21:32

C. We say of those whose affection is mutual that there is no love lost between them; but here we         find a great deal of the love even of God himself lost and thrown away upon an unworthy         ungrateful people. The God of Israel retains a very great love for the children of Israel, and yet they are an evil and adulterous generation.- Matthew Henry commentary on 3:1

D. Judges 19:1-3

      And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a      certain Levite staying in the remote mountains of Ephraim. He took for himself a       concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. But his concubine played the harlot against him,       and went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there four       whole months. Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and      bring her back, having his servant and a couple of donkeys with him. So she brought him      into her father's house; and when the father of the young woman saw him, he was glad to       meet him.

E. from the book “Hosea’s heartbreak” by Jack R. Riggs

      - p. 30- “At no point did Hosea complain about the Lord’s providence in his life. He did not challenge or criticize God’s right to treat him as He did. Hosea was willing to be used of God in whatever way God deemed necessary. This meant embarrassment, the loss of pride, heartbreak, and going the second mile with an adulterous wife.”

      - called “the prophet of sorrowful heart”- p. 33

      - “Here is the love that suffers long and is kind. Here is the love that never lets us go, and never gives us up. Here is the love that any waters cannon quench- wounded, outraged, grieved, disappointed love, which, although it flames and flashes with white-hot indignation at sin, sobs out, “how shall I give thee up, Ephraim? How shall I delver thee, Israel?” p. 34

      -not a symbolic book: Gomer’s name has no symbolic significance, as is the case with the children.: The commands of God frequently prove grievous (Isa. 20:1-4; Jer. 16:1-4) and therefore Hosea’s experience is not unique in scripture.: only priests were forbidden to marry a harlot (Lev. 21:7)

      - a believer’s emotions are to be in tune with God’s. David wrote: Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? (Psa. 139:21) Paul felt constrained by Christ’s love for the unsaved (2 Cor. 5:14). (p.48).

      - Commitment to God may mean the loss, either temporarily or permanently, of some of those things which Christians consider as rights. The will of God for Hosea meant the loss of a happy marital situation. The marriage relationship of and the home are very precious to the people of God. The disruption of the home presents a real tragedy. Hosea’s comfort was in his knowledge that he was in God’s will. (p. 48)

      - All rights must make way for Gold’s rights (p. 48)

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F. Prov. 5:22- His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

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 Hos. 11:4- I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

- hose’s name means salvation