Hosea 6:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

Hosea 6:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 32:39
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Job 5:18
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
1 Samuel 2:6
The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
Lamentations 3:40-41
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. …
Hosea 14:4
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Contrition Conviction God Penitence Penitent Religion Remorse

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-3)

These may be taken either as the words of the prophet to the people, calling them to repentance, or as the words of the people to one another, exciting and encouraging one another to seek the Lord, and to humble themselves before him, in hopes of finding mercy with him. God had said, In their affliction they will seek me; now the prophet, and the good people his friends, would strike while the iro…

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

(vv. 1)

Ho 6:1-11. The Israelites’ Exhortation to One Another to Seek the Lord. At Ho 6:4 a new discourse, complaining of them, begins; for Ho 6:1-3 evidently belong to Ho 5:15, and form the happy termination of Israel’s punishment: primarily, the return from Babylon; ultimately, the return from their present long dispersion. Ho 6:8 perhaps refers to the murder of Pekahiah; the discourse cannot be later t…