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Introduction
The Path to Restoration
Punishment
Warning
The section opens with the Lord calling for a formal accusation to be brought against Israel.
The covenant relationship is likened to marriage, the Lord being the husband and Israel the wife.
The children addressed (cf.
your mother) need not represent any specific group within Israel.
They are included for rhetorical effect and add to the realism of the figurative portrayal.
The word translated rebuke (rîḇ) is used here of a formal legal accusation.
Pleading Command—Israel is to fight the urge to sin, but instead they turn from God to idols.
Equating the sin of idolatry to physical immorality demonstrates the disgust that God has for His people in the sin of idolatry.
Penitence (repentance) Enjoined (linked)
Posterity at steak
Hos.
2:4
Persistence in sin.
Prosperity is not a result of idols
Hos 2:6
Punishment Carried Out
Idols are taken away
Hosea 2:5
In verse 5 Israel’s unfaithfulness is vividly pictured.
She resolved to pursue her lovers (the Baals; cf.
vv.
13, 17; 11:2) because she believed they supplied her physical nourishment (food … water), protection (wool and … linen; cf.
2:9), and pleasure (oil and … drink).
In response the Lord declared that He would soon eliminate all means of access to these lovers.
Israel would find familiar paths blocked with thorns and stone walls (v. 6).
Her frantic efforts to find her lovers would be thwarted (v.
7a).
As a last resort, she would resolve to return to her Husband, the Lord, opening the way for restoration.
The reality behind this figurative portrayal of judgment probably included drought, invasion, and exile (cf.
vv. 9, 11–12; Lev.
26:18–22).
Persistence in Sin.
Prosperity is not a result of idols
Difficulty in the way
Defeat of her designs
hos.
2:7
Determination arrived
Hos
Sad Mistake of Israel
Severe chastisement was the consequence
Hos 2:9
Blessings are removed
Hosea 2:
Sad Mistake of Israel
Hos.
2:
Severe chastisement was the consequence
Shame aggravates the chastened
Sorrow follows shame
Ruin of prospects and possessions
Retribution commensurate with wrong
Restoration
Renewed Hope
Renewed Covenant
Hosea 2:16
Renewed Blessings
Restored Marriage
God’s Command
Hosea Obeyed
Illustration Explained
Gomer’s lengthy period of isolation was designed to portray Israel’s exile, when the nation would be separated from its illicit institutions and practices (cf.
2:6–7).
The absence of king and prince implied loss of national sovereignty.
The elimination of sacrifice and sacred stones meant the cessation of formal religious activity.
Sacrifices, having been commanded by the Lord, were a legitimate aspect of worship when offered with an attitude of total devotion to God.
However, in Israel sacrifices had become contaminated by their association with Baal worship (cf.
4:19) and by the people’s failure to obey “the more important matters of the Law” (Matt.
23:23; cf.
Hosea 6:6; 8:11–13).
“Sacred stones” (maṣṣēḇâh) had been a legitimate part of patriarchal worship (cf.
Gen. 28:18, 22; 31:13).
However, because of those stones’ association with pagan religion, Israel was forbidden to use them after entering Canaan (Lev.
26:1; Deut.
16:22).
In direct violation of this covenant stipulation Israel had erected such stones as part of its Baal worship (2 Kings 3:2; 10:26–27; 17:10; Hosea 10:1; Micah 5:13).
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