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Names
We continue with looking into the names and their meaning for insight into what’s happening in Hosea.
We pick back up in verse 6
This name is far less complicated to understand than Jezreel.
It means what it says right out.
Lo-Ruhamah Lo means no so No - Ruhamah and Ruhamah is a word in the general family of the word love - this is a compassionate, tender, merciful love.
The Hebrew word is actually all the same letters as the word for a womb so just pronounced differently gives a different meaning.
This not being an identical word to something in English is why you get quite the list of words from different translations:
ESV, NKJV, KJV, Darby, ERV, FSB : Mercy
NIV, GW: Loved
NET, Geneva: Pity
EMPH, CSB, HCSB: Compassion
Compassion and Mercy are the most common ways of translating the same word in other verses in the bible with compassion being a little more common.
For the cultural context though this would relate to us a little more with calling a little girl unloved.
Can you imagine walking through Walmart and overhearing a parent calling their kids name.
“Hey, unloved come here.”
It would grab your attention and make you say… um… why would anyone name their daughter that.
It’s so sad.
So there will be no mercy or compassion on the house of Israel.
If we remember last time the house of Israel is synonymous with the northern kingdom.
And we know that Hosea is the last to prophesy in the northern Kingdom before it’s conquered by Assyria.
But the southern kingdom will be saved, but not militarily saved.
They do get conquered by Babylon more than a hundred years later and taken into captivity.
The Jews from Judah, the southern kingdom do keep their Jewish identity.
Most of the Jews carried off by Assyria in the northern kingdom are no longer Jewish.
They intermarry and don’t keep a lot of the traditions the same anymore.
This group of sort of but not quite Jewish people are the one who become the Samaritans.
Samaria was the capitol of the northern kingdom.
So the northern kingdom will be gone, totally at some point, physically, politically, and culturally.
Judah on the other hand will get defeated militarily but they do come back and retain their culture and scripture to rebuild.
From what I understand when she weaned No Mercy means this would have been about 3 years apart at a minimum.
According to the Talmud ( a Jewish commentary and rule book for everything in life written around 500AD the minimum is 2 years the max is 5 for an orthodox Jewish mother to breastfeed.
And now you know.
Just as direct here we get Not My People or Lo-Ammi.
Again Lo is the NO or NOT.
Am is the word for people descendants of the same father, and mi is the possessive where we would say ‘my’ so Not My People.
Now… has anyone noticed anything about these 3 children… or more specifically something different said about Jezreel that wasn’t said about Unloved or Not My People?
This may be nothing… it might just many people reading into things but… Back in Verse three it says she conceived and bore him a son.... the other two children it just says she conceived and bore a daughter/son.
I don’t know for sure… but does this mean the parentage might be in question?
The Bible certainly never says so I’ll leave you with a possibility that we cannot know for certain and move on.
If this were the Hebrew text we’d move to chapter 2 because the next two verses are where they start chapter 2… I think they had it correct… as we start a new subject
This contrast might seem jarring but it’s going to keep happening.
We will get judgment and hope in cycles many times.
This should remind us of the promise we’ve talked about before.
Gen 22:17 “I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore.
And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies,” and Gen 13:16 “I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.”
Remember at the beginning of this series that one of the purposes of the prophets is to remind people of the covenant of God.
Paul grabbed these verses to point out God’s plan in bringing in the world to the covenant is right here.
Is it not also true that the people who are not my people have been called my people… and the one called not beloved has been called beloved?
The day we are unified with Christ Jew and Gentile alike is now and is coming.
It says they shall appoint themselves one head and it says in Col 1:18-22
They shall go up from the land some have taken to be the idea that this soon to be scattered people will come up out of the land and return to Israel.
They actually come back to the land a few times, the most recent in History might be the most dramatic, it might also be the last we don’t know what the Lord has in store for the restoration of Israel or it’s timing.
One thing is for certain great will be that day that the Lord plants that work.
This change begins the judgement into blessing for the names.
Jezreel isn’t about bloodshed anymore it’s about God planting his people back into the land.
Then the other two continue with this in Hos 2:1 (another reason someone got the chapter division messed up)
Now these names are altered, the negative aspect is taken out and the name is a blessing.
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