10Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. …
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. …
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-11)We have here a prediction, I. Of the rejection of Israel for a time, which is signified by the name of another child that Hosea had by his adulterous spouse, Hos. 1:8 , 9 . And still we must observe that those children whose names carried these direful omens in them to Israel were all children of whoredoms (Hos. 1:2), all born of the harlot that Hosea married, to intimate that the ruin of Israel w…
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