Hosea 2:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

Hosea 2:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Job 3:23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Lamentations 3:7-9
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. …
Luke 19:43
For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
Luke 15:14-16
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Botany Hedge Israel, Prophecies Concerning Thorn

Commentary

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

(vv. 6-13)

God here goes on to threaten what he would do with this treacherous idolatrous people; and he warns that he may not wound, he threatens that he may not strike. If he turn not, he will whet his sword (Ps. 7:12); but, if he turn, he will sheathe it. They did not turn, and therefore all this came upon them: and its being threatened before shows that it was the execution of a divine sentence upon them…

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

(vv. 6)

6-7. thorns ... wall--(Job 19:8; La 3:7, 9). The hindrances which the captivity interposed between Israel and her idols. As she attributes all her temporal blessings to idols, I will reduce her to straits in which, when she in vain has sought help from false gods, she will at last seek Me as her only God and Husband, as at the first (Is 54:5; Jr 3:14; Eze 16:8). then--before Israel’s apostasy, und…