Jer 3:1-2, Eze 16, Eze 23, Hos 1-3, Rev 17 | TSK | STEP | God's great mercy in Judah's vile whoredom. Judah is worse than Israel. The promises of the gospel to the penitent. Israel reproved, and called by God, makes a solemn confession of their sins. They say. Heb. Saying. If a man. shall not that. but thou hast. yet return.

because.Raised from the most abject state to dignity and splendour by Jehovah, Israel became proud of her numbers, riches, strength, and reputation, forgetting that it was "through his comeliness which he had put upon them;" and thus departing from God, made alliances with heathen nations, and worshipped their idols.

and pouredst.

25,36,37

7:20; 2Ki 23:7; 2Ch 28:24; Ho 2:8

hast also.

7:19; 23:14-21; Ex 32:1-4; Ho 2:13; 10:1

men. Heb. a male. and didst.

Isa 44:19,20; 57:7,8; Jer 2:27,28; 3:9 This seems to intimate that the Israelites not only spent their own wealth and abundance in building and decorating idol temples, and in maintaining their worship, but that they made use of the holy vestments, and the various kinds of offerings which belonged to Jehovah, in order to honour and serve the idols of the heathen.

meat.

13; De 32:14-17; Ho 2:8-13

a sweet savour. Heb. a savour of rest.

Ge 8:21; *marg:

thy sons.

21; 23:4; Ge 17:7; Ex 13:2,12; De 29:11,12

and these.

20:26,31; 23:37,39; 2Ki 16:3; 2Ch 33:6; Ps 106:37,38; Isa 57:5

Jer 7:31; 32:35; Mic 6:7

be devoured. Heb. devour. Is this.

8:17; Jer 2:34,35

my children.

Ps 106:37

to pass.

Le 18:21; 20:1-5; De 18:10; 2Ki 17:17; 21:6; 23:10

3-7,43,60-63; Jer 2:2; Ho 2:3; 11:1

woe.

2:10; 13:3,18; 24:6; Jer 13:27; Zep 3:1; Mt 11:21; 23:13-29; Re 8:13

Re 12:12

thou hast.

31,39; 20:28,29; 2Ki 21:3-7; 23:5-7,11,12; 2Ch 33:3-7

eminent place. or, brothel house. and hast.

Le 26:30; Ps 78:58; Isa 57:5,7; Jer 2:20; 3:2; 17:3

at every.

31; Ge 38:14,21; Pr 9:14,15; Isa 3:9; Jer 2:23,24; 3:2; 6:15

and hast made.

23:9,10,32; Re 17:1-5,12,13,16

with the.

8:10,14; 20:7,8; 23:3,8,19-21; Ex 32:4; De 29:16,17; Jos 24:14

Isa 30:21

I have.

14:9; Isa 5:25; 9:12,17

and have.

De 28:48-57; Isa 3:1; Ho 2:9-12

thine.{Chukkach,} "thy portion;" the household provision of a wife--food, clothes, and money.

delivered.The Jews, under Manasseh, and the succeeding kings of Judah, made the temple itself the scene of their open and abominable idolatries, in addition to all their idol temples! which appears to be meant by "the eminent place," and "highplaces in every street," ver. 24. Allured by the prosperity of the Egyptians, they also connected themselves with them, and joined in their multiplied and abominable idolatries. And when Jehovah punished them by wars and famines, and by the Philistines, whose daughters are represented as ashamed of their enormous idolatries, instead of being amended, they formed alliances with the Assyrians, and worshipped their gods: and they even followed every idol which was worshipped between Canaan and Chaldea.

37; 23:22,25,28,29,46,47; Ps 106:41; Jer 34:21; Re 17:16

daughters. or, cities.

2Ki 24:2; 2Ch 28:18,19; Isa 9:12

which.

47,57; 5:6,7

23:5-9,12-21; Jud 10:6; 2Ki 16:7,10-18; 21:11; 2Ch 28:23

Jer 2:18,36; Ho 10:6

in the land.

13:14-23; Jud 2:12-19; 2Ki 21:9

unto.

23:14-21

weak.

Pr 9:13; Isa 1:3; Jer 2:12,13; 4:22

the work.

Jud 16:15,16; Pr 7:11-13,21; Isa 3:9; Jer 3:3; Re 17:1-6

In that thou buildest thine. or, In thy daughters is thine,etc.

24,39

makest.

25; Ho 12:11

in that thou scornest.

33,34; Isa 52:3

8; 23:37,45; Jer 2:25,28; 3:1,8,9,20; Ho 2:2; 3:1; 2Co 11:2,3

give.

Ge 38:16-18; De 23:17,18; Ho 2:12; Joe 3:3; Mic 1:7; Lu 15:30

but thou.

Isa 30:3,6,7; 57:9; Ho 8:9,10

hirest. Heb. bribest.

O harlot.

Isa 1:21; 23:15,16; Jer 3:1,6-8; Ho 2:5; Na 3:4; Joh 4:10,18

Re 17:5

hear.

13:2; 20:47; 34:7; 1Ki 22:19; Isa 1:10; 28:14; Ho 4:1; Am 7:16

Because.

15-22; 22:15; 23:8; 24:13; 36:25; La 1:9; Zep 3:1

and thy.

23:10,18,29; Ge 3:7,10,11; Ps 139:11,12; Jer 13:22-26; Re 3:18

and by.

20,21; Jer 2:34

23:9,10,22-30; Jer 4:30; 13:22,26; 22:20; La 1:8,19; Ho 2:3,10

Ho 8:10; Na 3:5,6; Re 17:16

as women. Heb. with judgments of women, etc.

40; 23:45-47; Ge 38:11,24; Le 20:10; De 22:22-24; Mt 1:18,19

Joh 8:3-5

shed.

20,21,36; Ge 9:6; Ex 21:12; Nu 35:31; Ps 79:3-5; Jer 18:21

Zep 1:17; Na 1:2; Re 16:6

And I.For the enormous idolatries and cruelties of Judah and Jerusalem, Jehovah determined to gather together the surrounding nations, both those with whom they had formed alliances, as the Egyptians and Assyrians, and such as had always been inimical to them, as Edom, Ammon, Moab, and Philistia, to inflict, or to witness, his judgments upon them. Having exposed their enormous crimes to view, He would pass sentence upon them: He would give Jerusalem into the hands of the Chaldeans, who would destroy the city and temple which they had polluted; level their cities and high places with the ground; slay, plunder, and enslave the people.

they shall throw.

24,25,31; 7:22-24; Isa 27:9

shall strip.

10-20; 23:26,29; Isa 3:16-24; Ho 2:3,9-13

thy fair jewels. Heb. instruments of thine ornament.

shall also.

Hab 1:6-10; Joh 8:5-7

and thrust.

23:10,47; 24:21; Jer 25:9

burn.

De 13:16; 2Ki 25:9; Jer 39:8; 52:13; Mic 3:12

and execute.

5:8; 23:10,48; De 13:11; 22:21,24; Job 34:26

and I.

23:27; 37:23; Isa 1:25,26; 2:18; 27:9; Ho 2:6-17; Mic 5:10-14

Zec 13:2; 1Ti 5:20

will I.

5:13; 21:17; 2Sa 21:14; Isa 1:24; Zec 6:8

and will.

39:29; Isa 40:1,2; 54:9,10

thou hast.

22; Ps 78:42; 106:13; Jer 2:32

but hast.

6:9; De 32:21; Ps 78:40; 95:10; Isa 63:10; Am 2:13; Ac 7:51

Eph 4:30

I also.

7:3,4,8,9; 9:10; 11:21; 22:31; Ro 2:8,9

every.

18:2,3; 1Sa 24:13

As is.

3,45; 1Ki 21:16; 2Ki 17:11,15; 21:9; Ezr 9:1; Ps 106:35-38

that loatheth.

8,15,20,21; 23:37-39; De 5:9; 12:31; Isa 1:4; *marg:

Zec 11:8; Ro 1:30,31

your mother.

elder.

51; 23:4,11,31-33; Jer 3:8-11; Mic 1:5

thy younger sister. Heb. thy sister lesser than thou.

48,49,53-56,61; Ge 13:11-13; 18:20-33; 19:24,25; De 29:23; 32:32

Isa 1:9,10; Jer 23:14; La 4:6; *marg:

Lu 17:28-30; 2Pe 2:6; Jude 1:7; Re 11:8

her daughters.

27; *marg:

26:6; Ge 14:8; 19:29; Ho 11:8

as if that were a very little thing. or, that was loathed asa small thing.

8:17; 1Ki 16:31

thou wast.

48,51; 5:6,7; 2Ki 21:9,16; Joh 15:21,22; 1Co 5:1

Mt 10:15; 11:24; Mr 6:11; Lu 10:12; Ac 7:52

pride.

28:2,9,17; 29:3; Ge 19:9; Ps 138:6; Pr 16:5,18; 18:12; 21:4; Isa 3:9

Isa 16:6; Da 4:30,37; 5:23; Ob 1:3; 1Pe 5:5

fulness.

Ge 13:10; 18:20; De 32:15; Isa 22:13,14; Am 6:3-6; Lu 12:16-20

Lu 16:19; 17:28; 21:34

neither.

18:12; Pr 21:13; Isa 3:14,15; Am 5:11,12; 8:4-6; Mic 3:2-4

Lu 16:20,21

and committed.

Ge 13:13; 18:20; 19:5; Le 18:22; De 23:17; 2Ki 23:7; Pr 16:18

Pr 18:12; Ro 1:26,27; Jude 1:7

therefore.

Ge 19:24; De 29:23; Job 18:15; Isa 13:19; Jer 20:16; 49:18; 50:40

La 4:6; Am 4:11; Zep 2:9; 2Pe 2:6; Re 18:9

Samaria.

Lu 12:47,48; Ro 3:9-20

justified.

Jer 3:8-11; Mt 12:41,42

which hast.

56; Mt 7:1-5; Lu 6:37; Ro 2:1,10,26,27

bear thine.

54,63; 36:6,7,15,31,32; 39:26; 44:13; Jer 23:40; 31:19; 51:51

Ho 10:6; Ro 1:32; 6:21

they are more.

Ge 38:26; 1Sa 24:17; 1Ki 2:32

bring.

60,61; 29:14; 39:25; Job 42:10; Ps 14:7; 85:1; 126:1; Isa 1:9

Jer 20:16; 31:23; 48:47; 49:6,39; Joe 3:1

in the midst.

Isa 19:24,25; Jer 12:16; Ro 11:23-31

thou mayest.

52,63; 36:31,32; Jer 2:26

in that.

14:22,23

then.

53; 36:11; Mal 3:4

was not.

Isa 65:5; Zep 3:11; Lu 15:28-30; 18:11

mentioned. Heb. for a report, or a hearing. pride. Heb.prides, or excellencies.

thy wickedness.

36,37; 21:24; 23:18,19; Ps 50:21; La 4:22; Ho 2:10; 7:1; 1Co 4:5

reproach.

2Ki 16:5-7; 2Ch 28:5,6,18-23; Isa 7:1; 14:28

Syria. Heb. Aram.

Ge 10:22,23; Nu 23:7

the daughters.

despise. or, spoil.

Jer 33:24

hast.

23:49; Ge 4:13; La 5:7

borne. Heb. borne them.

I will.

7:4,8,9; 14:4; Isa 3:11; Jer 2:19; Mt 7:1,2; Ro 2:8,9

which.

17:13-16; Ex 24:1-8; De 29:10-15,25; 2Ch 34:31,32; Isa 24:5

Jer 22:9; 31:32

I will remember.

8; Le 26:42,45; Ne 1:5-11; Ps 105:8; 106:45; Jer 2:2; 33:20-26

Ho 2:15; Lu 1:72

I will establish.

37:26,27; Isa 55:3; 2Sa 23:5; Jer 31:31-34; 32:38-41; 50:5

Ho 2:19,20; Heb 8:10; 12:24; 13:20

remember.

63; 20:43; 36:31,32; Job 42:5,6; Ps 119:59; Jer 31:18-20; 50:4,5

when.

53-55; So 8:8,9; Isa 2:2-5; 11:9,10; Ho 1:9-11; Ro 11:11

Ro 15:8,9,16; Ga 4:26,27; Eph 2:12-14; 3:6

I will.

Isa 49:18-23; 54:1,2; 60:4; 66:7-12; Ga 4:26-31

but not.

Jer 31:31-40; Joh 15:16; Heb 8:13

I will.

60; Da 9:27; Ho 2:18-23

and thou.

6:7; 39:22; Jer 24:7; Joe 3:17

remember.

61; 36:31,32; Ezr 9:6; Da 9:7,8

and never.

Job 40:4,5; Ps 39:9; La 3:39; Ro 2:1; 3:19,27; 9:19,20

when.

Ro 5:1,2; 1Co 4:7; Eph 2:3-5; Tit 3:3-7

Ezekiel 23

1 The whoredoms of Aholah and Aholibah.

23 Aholibah is to be plagued by her lovers.

36 The prophet reproves the adulteries of them both;

45 and shews their judgments.

two.

16:44,46; Jer 3:7-10

in Egypt.

20:8; Le 17:7; De 29:16; Jos 24:14

in their.

8,19,21; 16:22; Ho 2:15

the names.The kingdom of Israel, of which Samaria was the capital, containing ten tribes, and occupying a larger extent of country than that of Judah, is therefore called "her elder sister;" and Aholah, the name given to her, implies that the whole religious establishment in Israel was a human invention, a temple and service of their own, and not of God's appointment. Aholibah, the name given to Judah, implies that the worship established there was from God, and that His temple was truly at Jerusalem.

the elder.

16:40; 1Ki 12:20

they were.

16:8,20; Ex 19:5,6; Ps 45:11-16; Jer 2:2,3; Ro 7:4

Aholah. that is, His tent, or tabernacle.

1Ki 12:26-33; Joh 4:22

Aholibah. that is, My tabernacle in her.

1Ki 8:29; Ps 76:2; 132:13,14

Aholah.The Israelites, in addition to their former gross idolatries, received the impure idolatrous worship of the Assyrians, who became their neighbours by the conquest of Syria.

1Ki 14:9,16; 15:26,30; 16:31,32; 21:26; 2Ki 17:7-18

doted.

7,9,12,16,20; 16:37; Jer 50:38

on the.

16:28; 2Ki 15:19; 16:7; 17:3; Ho 5:13; 8:9,10; 10:6; 12:1

all of.

12-15

committed her whoredoms with them. Heb. bestowed herwhoredoms upon them.

16:15

the chosen men of Assyria. Heb. the choice of the childrenof Asshur.

Ge 10:22

with all their.

30; 20:7; 22:3,4; Ps 106:39; Ho 5:3; 6:10

whoredoms.

3,19,21; Ex 32:4; 1Ki 12:28; 2Ki 10:29; 17:16

2Ki 15:29; 17:3-6,23; 18:9-12; 1Ch 5:26; Ho 11:5; Re 17:12,13,16

discovered.

29; 16:37-41; Ho 2:3,10

they took.

famous. Heb. a name.

48; Jer 22:8,9

her sister.

4; Jer 3:8

was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she. Heb. shecorrupted her inordinate love more than she. her sister in her whoredoms. Heb. the whoredoms of her sister.

16:47-51; Jer 3:8-11

upon.

5; 16:28; 2Ki 16:7-15; 2Ch 28:16-23

captains.

6,23

that they.

31; 2Ki 17:18,19; Ho 12:1,2

pourtrayed.

8:10; Isa 46:1; Jer 50:2

vermilion.

Jer 22:14

with girdles.

1Sa 18:4; Isa 22:21

all of.

Jud 8:18; 2Sa 14:25

look to.That is, "princes in appearance;" which seem to have been the deified men worshipped by the Chaldeans. The inhabitants of Judah, like the Israelites, connected themselves with the Assyrians, and were enamoured with their idols; and then with the Chaldeans, and followed their idols; still retaining their attachment to the Egyptians and their idolatrous rites.

as soon as she saw them with her eyes. Heb. at the sight ofher eyes.

16:29; Ge 3:6; 6:2; 39:7; 2Sa 11:2; 2Ki 24:1; Job 31:1; Ps 119:37

Pr 6:25; 23:33; Mt 5:28

and sent.

40,41; 16:17,29; 2Pe 2:14

Babylonians. Heb. children of Babel.

Ge 10:10; 11:9

and her.

22,28; 16:37; 2Sa 13:15

alienated. Heb. loosed, or disjointed.

discovered.

16:36; 21:24; Isa 3:9; Jer 8:12; Ho 7:1

then.

De 32:19; Ps 78:59; 106:40; Jer 6:8; 12:8; 15:1; La 2:7; Ho 2:2

Am 6:8; Zec 11:8

multiplied.

14; 16:25,29,51; Am 4:4

in calling.

3,8,21; 16:22; 20:7

16:20,26

17:15; Jer 5:8

I will raise.

9,28; 16:37; Isa 10:5,6; 39:3,4; Hab 1:6-10; Re 17:16

from.

and I.

Jer 6:22,23; 12:9-12

Babylonians.

21:19-27; 2Ki 20:14-17; 25:1-3

the Chaldeans.

2Ki 24:2; Job 1:17; Isa 23:13; Ac 7:4

Pekod.

Jer 50:21

the Assyrians.

Ge 2:14; 25:18; Ezr 6:22

desirable.

6,12

with chariots.

26:10; Jer 47:3; Na 2:3,4; 3:2,3

I will set.

45; 16:38; 21:23; 2Sa 24:14; Jer 39:5,6

I will set.

5:13; 8:1-18; 16:38-42; Ex 34:14; De 29:20; 32:21,22; Pr 6:34

So 8:6; Zep 1:18

they shall take away.This refers to the severe vengeance which enraged husbands took on their faithless wives: and implies that God would employ the Chaldeans to destroy the princes and priests of Judah, for violating their covenants and treaties. Such punishments were anciently common; and such is the present practice in one of the South Sea Islands.

they shall take thy.

47; Ho 2:4,5

thy residue.

15:6,7; 20:47,48; 22:18-22; Re 18:8

strip.

29; 16:16,37,39; Jer 13:22; Ho 2:3,9,10; Re 17:16; 18:14-17

fair jewels. Heb. instruments of thy decking.

Isa 3:17-24; 1Pe 3:3,4

will I.

16:41; 22:15; Isa 27:9; Mic 5:10-14; Zec 13:2

and thy.

3,19

so that.These severe judgments shall effectually deter you from idolatry, and make you abhor the least approaches to it. This often repeated prediction has received a most wonderful accomplishment. For neither the authority, frowns, examples, or favour of their conquerors or powerful neighbours, nor their own fears, hopes, interests, or predilection for the sensual worship of idols, could prevail with them to run into gross idolatry, either during the captivity, or ever afterwards, to the present day, a period of 2,414 years.

whom thou.

17,22; 16:37; Jer 21:7-10; 24:8; 34:20

deal.

25,26,45-47; 16:39; De 28:47-51; 2Sa 13:15

the nakedness.

18; 16:36,37

thou hast.

12-21; 6:9; Ps 106:35-38; Jer 2:18-20; 16:11,12; 22:8,9

because thou art.

7,17

walked.

13; 16:47-51; Jer 3:8-11

her.

2Ki 21:13; Jer 7:14,15; Da 9:12

drink.

Ps 60:3; Isa 51:17; Jer 25:15-28; 48:26; Mt 20:22,23; Re 16:19

Re 18:6

thou shalt be.

22:4,5; 25:6; 26:2; 35:15; 36:3; De 28:37; 1Ki 9:7; Ps 79:3

Jer 25:9; La 2:15,16; Mic 7:8

filled.

Jer 25:27; Hab 2:16

with the cup of astonishment.

Isa 51:17,22

drink.

Ps 75:8; Isa 51:17

and pluck.

3,8; Re 18:7

Because.

22:12; Isa 17:10; Jer 2:32; 3:21; 13:25; 23:27; 32:33; Ho 8:14; 13:6

Ro 1:28

and cast.

1Ki 14:9; Ne 9:26

therefore.

45-49; 7:4; 44:10; Le 24:15; Nu 14:34; 18:22

wilt.

20:4; 22:2; Jer 1:10; 1Co 6:2,3

judge. or, plead for.

Jer 11:14; 14:11

Aholah.

declare.

16:2; Isa 58:1; Ho 2:2; Mic 3:8-11; Mt 23:13-35; Lu 11:39-52

Ac 7:51-53

they have.

5; 16:32; Ho 1:2; 3:1

and blood.

39,45; 16:36,38; 22:2-4; 24:6-9; 2Ki 24:4; Ps 106:37,38

Isa 1:15; Jer 7:6,9; Ho 4:2; Mic 3:10; Lu 13:34

have also.

4; 16:20,21,36,45; 20:26,31; Le 18:21; 20:2-5; De 12:31

2Ki 17:17; 21:6; Jer 7:31; 32:35

they have.

7:20; 8:5-16; 2Ki 21:4,7; 23:11,12

and have.

20:13,24; 22:8; Ne 13:17,18; Jer 17:27

they came.

Isa 3:9; Jer 7:8-11; 11:15; Mic 3:11; Joh 18:28

thus.

38; 44:7; 2Ki 21:4; 2Ch 33:4-7; Jer 23:11

ye have.

13; Isa 57:9

to come. Heb. coming.

2Ki 20:13-15

thou didst.

Ru 3:3; Es 2:12

paintedst.{Kachalt aineych,} rendered by the LXX. [estibizou tous ophthalmous sou;] "thou didst paint thine eyes with stibium," and Vulgate {circumlinisti stibio oculos tuos,} "thou didst paint round thine eyes with stibium," or lead ore; whence it is called in Arabic {kochl,} and in Syriac {kecholo,} and {koochlo.}

2Ki 9:30; Jer 4:30

and deckedst.

16:13-16; Pr 7:10; Isa 3:18-23

stately. Heb. honourable.

Es 1:6; Pr 7:16,17; Isa 57:7; Am 2:8; 6:4

a table.

44:16; Isa 65:11; Mal 1:7

whereupon.

16:18,19; Pr 7:17; Jer 44:17; Ho 2:8,9

a voice.This seems to be an account of an idolatrous festival, perhaps that of Bacchus; in which a riotous and drunken multitude assembled, adorned with bracelets and chaplets, accompanied with music, songs, and dances.

Ex 32:6,18,19; Ho 13:6; Am 6:1-6

common sort. Heb. multitude of men. were brought.

Job 1:15; Joe 3:8

Sabeans. or, drunkards. bracelets.

16:11,12; Re 12:3

old.

Ezr 9:7; Ps 106:6; Jer 13:23; Da 9:16

whoredoms with her. Heb. her whoredoms.

so went.

3,9-13

the righteous.The Chaldeans, so called, because appointed by God to execute his judgment on these criminals.

36; Jer 5:14; Ho 6:5; Zec 1:6; Joh 8:3-7

after the manner of adulteresses.

37-39; 16:38-43; Le 20:10; 21:9; De 22:21-24; Joh 8:7

because.

I will.

22-26; 16:40; Jer 25:9

to be removed and spoiled. Heb. for a removing and spoil.

Jer 15:4; 24:9; 34:17

the company.

25,29; 9:6; 16:41; Jer 33:4,5

dispatch them. or, single them out.

24:6

shall slay.

24:21; 2Ch 36:17-19

and burn.

De 13:16; Jer 39:8; 52:13

I cause.

27; 6:6; 22:15; 36:25; Mic 5:11-14; Zep 1:3

that.

5:15; 16:41; De 13:11; Isa 26:9; 1Co 10:6-11; 2Pe 2:6

they shall.

7:4,9; 9:10; 11:21; 16:43; 22:31; Isa 59:18

ye shall bear.

and ye shall know.

6:7; 20:38,42,44; 25:5; Ps 9:16

Hosea 1

between.

Joe 2:20; Zec 14:8

in the.

16,41; Ps 48:2; Isa 2:2; 14:13; Mic 4:2; 2Th 2:4

glorious holy mountain. or, goodly. Heb. mountain of delightof holiness. he shall come.

2:35; 7:26; 8:25; Eze 38:22,23; 39:2; 2Th 2:8; Re 13:10; 14:14-20

Re 19:19-21; 20:2,9

1 Hosea, to shew God's judgment for spiritual whoredom, takes Gomer,

4 and has by her Jezreel;

6 Loruhamah;

8 and Lo-ammi.

10 The restoration of Judah and Israel under one head.

word.

Jer 1:2,4; Eze 1:3; Joe 1:1; Jon 1:1; Zec 1:1; Joh 10:35; 2Pe 1:21

Hosea.

Ro 9:25

Osee. in.

Isa 1:1; Mic 1:1

Uzziah.

2Ki 14:16-29; 15:1,2,32; 16:1-20; 18:1-37; 2Ch 26:1-32:33

beginning.

Mr 1:1

Go.

3:1; Isa 20:2,3; Jer 13:1-11; Eze 4:1-5:17

a wife.That is, says Apb. Newcome, a wife from among the Israelites, who were a people remarkable for spiritual fornication or idolatry.

children.

2:4; 2Pe 2:14; *marg:

for.

Ex 34:15,16; De 31:16; 2Ch 21:13; Ps 73:27; 106:39; Jer 2:13

Jer 3:1-4,9; Eze 6:9; 16:1-63; 23:1-49; Re 17:1,2,5

Isa 8:1-3

Call.

6,9; Isa 7:14; 9:6; Mt 1:21; Lu 1:13,31,63; Joh 1:42

Jezreel.[Yizrel ,] God will disperse, as seed is when sown; probably intimating also the speedy dispersion of Israel by Shalmaneser.

and I.

2Ki 9:24,25; 10:7,8,10,11,17,29-31; 15:10-12

avenge. Heb. visit.

2:13; 9:17; Jer 23:2

will cause.

2Ki 15:29; 17:6-23; 18:9-12; 1Ch 5:25,26; Jer 3:8; Eze 23:10,31

I will.

2:18; Ps 37:15; 46:9; Jer 49:34,35; 51:56

in.

Jos 17:16; Jud 6:33

Lo-ruhamah. that is, Not having obtained mercy.

2:23; 1Pe 2:10

for.

2Ki 17:6,23-41; Isa 27:11

no more have. Heb. not add any more to have. but I willutterly take them away. or, that I should altogether pardon them.

9:15-17

I will.

11:12; 2Ki 19:35; Isa 36:1-37:38

will save.

Isa 7:14; 12:2; 49:6; Jer 23:5,6; Zec 2:6-11; 4:6; 9:9,10; Mt 1:21-23

Tit 3:4-6

by bow.

Ps 33:16; 44:3-6

Lo-ammi. that is, Not my people.

Jer 15:1

the number.

Ge 13:16; 32:12; Isa 48:19; Ro 9:27,28; Heb 11:12

and it. See on

Ro 9:25,26

in the. or, instead of that. it was said.

2:23; Isa 43:6; 49:17-22; 54:1-3; 60:4-22; 66:20; 1Pe 2:9,10

Ye are the sons.

Joh 1:12; Ro 8:14-17; 9:26; 2Co 6:18; Ga 4:6,7; 1Jo 3:1,2

Then shall.This seems to refer to the future conversion and restoration of the Jews and Israelites, under on head, Jesus Christ; so that there shall be one flock and one shepherd.

the children of Judah.

3:5, Isa 11:12,13; Jer 3:18,19; 23:5-8; 30:3; 31:1-9, 33:15-26

Jer 50:4,5,19; Eze 16:60-63; 34:23,24; 37:16-25; Mic 2:12,13

Zec 10:6-9; Ro 11:25,26

for.An allusion to the word Jezreel. God who sowed them among the nations in His wrath, shall reap and gather them in His mercy: see ch.

2:22,23; Ps 22:27-30; 110:3; Ro 11:15

Hosea 2

1 The idolatry of the people.

6 God's judgments against them.

14 His promises of reconciliation with them.

unto.

1:9-11

Ammi. That is, My people.

Ex 19:5,6; Jer 31:33; 32:38; Eze 11:20; 36:28; 37:27; Zec 13:9

Ruhamah. That is, Having obtained mercy.

23; Ro 11:30,31; 2Co 4:1; 1Ti 1:13; 1Pe 2:10

Plead with.

Isa 58:1; Jer 2:2; 19:3; Eze 20:4; 23:45; Mt 23:37-39; Ac 7:51-53

2Co 5:16

she.

Isa 50:1; Jer 3:6-8

let.

1:2; Jer 3:1,9,13; Eze 16:20,25; 23:43

I strip.

10; Isa 47:3; Jer 13:22,26; Eze 16:37-39; 23:26-29; Re 17:16

was born.

Eze 16:4-8,22

as.

Isa 32:13,14; 33:9; 64:10; Jer 2:31; 4:26; 12:10; 22:6; Eze 19:13

Eze 20:35,36

a dry.

Jer 2:6; 17:6; 51:43

and slay.

Ex 17:3; Jud 15:18; Am 8:11-13

I will not.

1:6; Isa 27:11; Jer 13:14; 16:5; Eze 8:18; 9:10; Zec 1:12; Ro 9:18

Ro 11:22; Jas 2:13

they be.They are all idolaters; and have been consecrated to idols, whose marks they bear.

children of.

1:2; 2Ki 9:22; Isa 57:3; Joh 8:41

their mother.

2; 3:1; 4:5,12-15; Isa 1:21; 50:1; Jer 2:20,25; 3:1-9; Eze 16:15,16

Eze 16:28-34; 23:5-11; Re 2:20-23; 17:1-5

hath done.

9:10; Ezr 9:6,7; Jer 2:26,27; 11:13; Da 9:5-8

I will.

13; 8:9; Isa 57:7,8; Jer 3:1-3; Eze 23:16,17,40-44

give.

8,12; Jud 16:23; Jer 44:17,18

drink. Heb. drinks.

I will.

Job 3:23; 19:8; La 3:7-9; Lu 15:14-16; 19:43

make a wall. Heb. wall a wall.

she shall follow.

5:13; 2Ch 28:20-22; Isa 30:2,3,16; 31:1-3; Jer 2:28,36,37; 30:12-15

Eze 20:32; 23:22

I will.

5:15; 6:1; 14:1; Ps 116:7; Jer 3:22-25; 31:18; 50:4,5; La 3:40-42

Lu 15:17-20

first.

Jer 2:2; 3:1; 31:32; Eze 16:18; 23:4

for.

13:6; De 6:10-12; 8:17,18; 32:13-15; Ne 9:25,26; Jer 14:22

Da 4:17,25,32; 5:21

she.

Isa 1:3; Hab 1:16; Ac 17:23-25; Ro 1:28

her corn.

5; 10:1; Jud 9:27; Jer 7:18; 44:17,18; Eze 16:16-19; Da 5:3,4,23

Lu 15:13; 16:1,2

wine. Heb. new wine.

4:11; Isa 24:7-9

which they prepared for Baal. or, wherewith they made Baal.

8:4; 13:2; Ex 32:2-4; Jud 17:1-5; Isa 46:6

will I.

Da 11:13; Joe 2:14; Mal 1:4; 3:18

take.

3; Isa 3:18-26; 17:10,11; Eze 16:27,39; 23:26; Zep 1:13; Hag 1:6-11

Hag 2:16,17

recover. or, take away.

now.

3; Isa 3:17; Jer 13:22,26; Eze 16:36; 23:29; Lu 12:2,3; 1Co 4:5

lewdness. Heb. folly, or, villany. and none shall.

5:13,14; 13:7,8; Ps 50:22; Pr 11:21; Mic 5:8

cause.

9:1-5; Isa 24:7-11; Jer 7:34; 16:9; 25:10; Eze 26:13; Na 1:10

Re 18:22,23

her feast.

1Ki 12:32; Isa 1:13,14; Am 5:21; 8:3,5,9,10

destroy. Heb. make desolate. These.

5; 9:1

I will.

Ps 80:12; Isa 5:5; 7:23; 29:17; 32:13-15; Jer 26:18; Mic 3:12

I will visit.

9:7,9; Ex 32:34; Jer 23:2

the days.

9:10; 13:1; Jud 2:11-13; 3:7; 10:6; 1Ki 16:31,32; 18:18-40; 2Ki 1:2

2Ki 10:28; 21:3

she burned.

11:2; Jer 7:9; 11:13; 18:15

she decked.

Eze 23:40-42

she went.

5,7; Jer 2:23-25

forgat.

De 6:12; 8:11-14; 32:18; Jud 3:7; 1Sa 12:9; Job 8:13; Ps 78:11

Ps 106:13,21; Isa 17:10; Jer 2:32; Eze 22:12; 23:35

Therefore.

Isa 30:18; Jer 16:14

I will.

So 1:4; Joh 6:44; 12:32

and bring.

3; Jer 2:2; Eze 20:10,35,36; Re 12:6,14

and speak.

Isa 35:3,4; 40:1,2; 49:13-26; 51:3-23; Jer 3:12-24; 30:18-22

Jer 31:1-37; 32:36-41; 33:6-26; Eze 34:22-31; 36:8-15; 37:11-28

Eze 39:25-29; Am 9:11-15; Mic 7:14-20; Zep 3:9-20; Zec 1:12-17

Zec 8:19-23; Ro 11:26,27

comfortably. or, friendly. Heb. to her heart.

Ge 34:3; Jud 19:3; *marg:

I will.

12; Le 26:40-45; De 30:3-5; Ne 1:8,9; Isa 65:21; Jer 32:15

Eze 28:26; Am 9:14

the valley.

Jos 7:26; Isa 65:10

for.

La 3:21; Eze 37:11-14; Zec 9:12; Joh 10:9; Ac 14:27

she shall sing.

Ex 15:1-21; Nu 21:17; Ps 106:12

as in the days.

11:1; Jer 2:2; Eze 16:8,22,60

Ishi. that is, My husband.

7; Isa 54:5; Jer 3:14; Joh 3:29; 2Co 11:2; Eph 5:25-27; Re 19:7

Baali. that is, My lord.

I will.

Ex 23:13; Jos 23:7; Ps 16:4; Zec 13:2

and they.

Jer 10:11

in that day.

Isa 2:11,17; 26:1; Zec 2:11; 14:4,9

will I.

Job 5:23; Ps 91:1-13; Isa 11:6-9; 65:25; Eze 34:25

I will break.

Ps 46:9; Isa 2:4; Eze 39:9,10; Mic 4:3; Zec 9:10

and will.

Le 26:5,6; Ps 23:2; Jer 23:6; 30:10; 33:16; Eze 34:25; Mic 4:4

Zec 3:10

And I will.

Isa 54:5; 62:3-5; Jer 3:14,15; Joh 3:29; Ro 7:4; 2Co 11:2

Eph 5:25-27; Re 19:7-9; 21:2,9,10

for.

Isa 54:8-10; Jer 31:31-36; 32:38-41; Eze 37:25-28; 39:29; Joe 3:20

in righteousness.

Ps 85:10; Isa 45:23-25; 54:14; Jer 4:2; Ro 3:25-26; Eph 1:7,8

Eph 5:23-27

and.

Jer 9:24; 24:7; 31:33,34; Eze 38:23; Mt 11:27; Lu 10:22; Joh 8:55

Joh 17:3; 2Co 4:6; Php 3:8; Col 1:10; 2Ti 1:12; Heb 8:11; 1Jo 4:6

1Jo 5:20

I will hear, saith.

Isa 65:24; Zec 8:12; 13:9; Mt 6:33; Ro 8:32; 1Co 3:21-23

and they.

1:4,11

I will sow.

Ps 72:16; Jer 31:27; Zec 10:9; Ac 8:1-4; Jas 1:1; 1Pe 1:1,2

and I will have.

1:6; Ro 11:30-32; 1Pe 2:9,10

and I will say.

1:10; Zec 2:11; 13:9; Ro 9:25,26

Thou art my God.

8:2; De 26:17-19; Ps 22:27; 68:31; 118:28; So 2:16; Isa 44:5

Jer 16:19; 32:38; Zec 8:22,23; 14:9,16; Mal 1:11; Ro 3:29; 15:9-11

1Th 1:9,10; Re 21:3,4

Hosea 3

1 The Lord's intended future kindness to Israel, not withstanding their wickedness, illustrated by the emblem of Hosea's conduct towards his adulterous wife.

4 The desolation of Israel before their restoration.

Go yet.

1:2,3

friend.

Jer 3:1,20; *marg:

Mt 26:50

according.

11:8; De 7:6,7; Jud 10:16; 2Ki 13:23; Ne 9:18,19,31; Ps 106:43-46

Jer 3:1-4,12-14; 31:20; Mic 7:18-20; Zec 1:16; Lu 1:54,55

look.

Ps 123:2; Isa 17:7,8; 45:22; Mic 7:7

love flagons.

4:11; 7:5; 9:1,2; Ex 32:6; Jud 9:27; Am 2:8; 6:6; 1Co 10:7,21; 1Pe 4:3

wine. Heb. grapes.

I bought.

Ge 31:41; 34:12; Ex 22:17; 1Sa 18:25

an homer.

Le 27:16; Isa 5:10; Eze 45:11

half homer. Heb. lethech.

Thou shalt abide.

De 21:13

without a king.

10:3; Ge 49:10; Jer 15:4,5; Joh 19:15

without a sacrifice.

2Ch 15:2; Da 8:11-13; 9:27; 12:11; Mt 24:1,2; Lu 21:24; Ac 6:13,14

Heb 10:26

an image. Heb. a standing, or statue, or pillar.

Isa 19:19,20

ephod.

Ex 28:4; Le 8:7; Jud 8:27; 17:5; 1Sa 2:18; 14:3; 21:9; 22:18; 23:6,9

1Sa 30:7; 2Sa 6:14

without teraphim.

Ge 31:19; *marg:

Jud 17:5; 18:17-24; 2Ki 23:24; *marg:

Eze 20:32; 21:21; *marg:

Mic 5:11-14; Zec 13:2

seek.

5:6,15; Isa 27:12,13; Jer 3:22,23; 31:6-10; 50:4,5

and David their king.

1Ki 12:16; Isa 55:3,4; Jer 30:9; 33:17; Eze 34:23,24; 37:22-25

Am 9:11; Ac 15:16-18

fear.

Ps 130:3,4; Jer 33:9; Eze 16:63; Ro 2:4

in the.

Nu 24:14; De 4:30; Isa 2:2; Jer 30:24; Eze 38:8,16; Da 2:28; 10:14

Mic 4:1; Ro 11:25

Revelation of John 17

1 A woman arrayed in purple and scarlet, with a golden cup in her hand sits upon the beast;

5 which is great Babylon, the mother of all abominations.

9 The interpretation of the seven heads;

12 and the ten horns.

14 The victory of the Lamb.

16 The punishment of the whore.

one.

15:1,6; 17:1-17; 21:9

talked.

4:1; 21:15; Lu 9:30; 24:32

I will.

16:19; 18:16-19

the great.

4,5,15,16; 19:2; Isa 57:3; Na 3:4,5

that sitteth.

15; Jer 51:13

13,17; 14:8; 18:3,9,23; Jer 51:7

he carried.

1:10; 4:2; 21:10; 1Ki 18:12; 2Ki 2:16; Eze 3:12; 8:3; 11:24; Ac 8:39

into.

12:6,14; So 8:5

a woman.

4,6,18; 12:3

full.

13:1-6; Da 7:8,20,25; 11:36; 2Th 2:4

having.

9-12; 12:3; 13:1

arrayed.

18:7,12,16

decked. Gr. gilded.

Da 11:38

golden.

14:8; 18:6; 19:2; Jer 51:7; 2Th 2:3-10

abominations.

De 29:17; 1Ki 14:24; 2Ki 21:2; Isa 66:3; Eze 20:30; Ho 9:10

filthiness.

Ezr 9:11; La 1:9; Eze 24:11,13; 36:25

upon.

7:3; Isa 3:9; Php 3:19

MYSTERY.

2Th 2:7; 2Ti 3:1-5

BABYLON.

11:8; 14:8; 16:19; 18:2,10,21; Jer 51:47,48

THE MOTHER.

18:9; 19:2

HARLOTS. or, fornications.

drunken.

13:7,15; 16:6; 18:20-24; Da 7:21,25

the martyrs.

2:13; 6:9,10; 12:11; Ac 22:20

I wondered.

Hab 1:13

I will.

1-6,8

beast that thou.The Roman empire was the beast, or idolatrous persecuting power, when under the Pagan emperors; it ceased to be so when it became Christian; and became so again under the Roman pontiffs, and shall "go into perdition."

9:2; 11:7; 13:1-11

go.

11; 14:8-20; 16:1-18:24; 19:15-21; 20:10; Da 7:11,26; 11:45

2Th 2:3-8

shall wonder.

13:3,4

whose.

13:8; 20:12,15

from.

Mt 25:34; Joh 17:24; Ac 15:18; Eph 1:4; Tit 1:2; 1Pe 1:20

the beast that was.

13:1-4,11,12

here.

13:18; Da 12:4,8-10; Ho 14:9; Mt 13:11; 24:15

The seven.

3,7,18; 13:1

that was.

the ten.

12:3; 13:1; Da 2:40-43; 7:7,8,20,24; Zec 1:18-21

one.

Php 1:27; 2:2

shall.

17; Isa 10:5-7; Eze 38:10; Ac 4:28

shall make.

11:7; 8:6,7; 16:14; 19:15-21; Da 7:21,25; 11:9-12,24,25; Zec 2:8

Mt 25:40; Ac 9:4,5

the Lamb shall.

6:12-17; Ps 2:8,9; 21:8-12; 110:5; Jer 50:44; Da 2:44; 7:26,27

1Co 15:24

Lord.

1:5; 19:16; De 10:17; Ps 136:2,3; Pr 8:15,16; Da 2:47; 1Ti 6:15

and they.

14:1-4; 19:14; Ps 149:5-9; Jer 1:15,19; Mic 5:7-9; Joh 15:16

Ro 8:30; 8:37; 2Ti 2:4; Heb 3:1,2; 1Pe 2:9

and faithful.

2:10

The waters.

1; Ps 18:4; 65:7; 93:3-4; Isa 8:7,8; Jer 51:13,42,55

are.

10:11; 11:9; 13:7,8

the ten.

2,10,12

these.The ten horns, which the angel explained of "ten kings" or kingdoms, and which once exalted and supported her ecclesiastical tyranny, will hate, desolate, strip, and devour her. They will be the principal instruments in the destruction of popery and the ruin of Rome itself.

1,2,13; 16:12; Isa 13:17,18; Jer 50:41,42

and naked.

18:16,17; Eze 16:37-44; 23:45-49

eat.

Job 31:31; Ps 27:2; Da 7:5

and burn.

18:8,16; Le 21:9

God hath.

13; Ac 4:27,28

put.

Ezr 7:27; Ps 105:25; Pr 21:1; Jer 32:40; 2Th 2:10-12; Jas 1:13-17

to fulfil.

Lu 22:3,22,37; Joh 13:2,18

until.

6:11; 10:7; 15:1; Pr 19:21; Isa 45:17; 46:10,11; Jer 27:6,7

Eze 38:16,17; Da 12:7; Joh 10:35; 12:39,40; 19:24,28

the woman.

16:19; 18:2; Da 2:40,41; 7:23; Lu 2:1

which reigneth.The city which, at the time of the vision, "reigned over the kings of the earth," was undoubtedly Rome; and from its foundation, it has, in different ways, accomplished this object to the present time.

12:4