Hosea 2:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

Hosea 2:14 —

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Cross-References

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Isaiah 40:1-2
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. …
Ezekiel 20:35-36
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. …
Revelation 12:6
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Isaiah 30:18
And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
Genesis 34:3
And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Atheism Attributes of God God Guidance Israel, Prophecies Concerning Lord Majesty

Commentary

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

(vv. 14-23)

The state of Israel ruined by their own sin did not look so black and dismal in the former part of the chapter, but that the state of Israel, restrained by the divine grace, looks as bright and pleasant here in the latter part of the chapter, and the more surprisingly so as the promises follow thus close upon the threatenings; nay, which is very strange, they are by a note of connexion joined to,…

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

(vv. 14)

14. Therefore--rather, “Nevertheless” [Henderson]. English Version gives a more lovely idea of God. That which would provoke all others to unappeasable wrath, Israel’s perversity and consequent punishment, is made a reason why God should at last have mercy on her. As the “therefore” (Ho 2:9) expresses Israel’s punishment as the consequence of Israel’s guilt, so “therefore” here, as in Ho 2:6, expr…