Hosea 14:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

Hosea 14:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 52:8
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
Matthew 13:31
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
Jeremiah 11:16
The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
Genesis 27:27
And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:
John 15:1
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-7)

We have here an answer of peace to the prayers of returning Israel. They seek God’s face, and they shall not seek in vain. God will be sure to meet those in a way of mercy who return to him in a way of duty. If we speak to God in good prayers, God will speak to us in good promises, as he answered the angel with good words and comfortable words, Zech. 1:13. If we take with us the foregoing words in…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. branches--shoots, or suckers. beauty ... as the olive--which never loses its verdure. One plant is not enough to express the graces of God’s elect people. The lily depicts its lovely growth; but as it wants duration and firmness, the deeply rooted cedars of Lebanon are added; these, however, are fruitless, therefore the fruitful, peace-bearing, fragrant, ever green olive is added. smell as Leba…