Hosea 2:14 KJV — MannaFest

Hosea 2:14

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.

YLT

Therefore, lo, I am enticing her, And have caused her to go to the wilderness, And I have spoken unto her heart,

DBT

Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak to her heart.

About this book

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Hosea — A prophet commanded to marry an unfaithful wife — his marriage becomes the sermon. Fourteen chapters on covenant unfaithfulness and a love that will not let Israel go.

Author: Hosea son of Beeri (1:1)
Date: Ministry c. 755–715 BC — the decades leading up to the 722 BC fall of the northern kingdom

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Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Isaiah 40:2
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.
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.
Isaiah 54:6
For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

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So obstinate is she that God has to "allure her," that is, so to temper judgment with unlooked-for grace as to win her to His ways.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

This is expressed here with an allusion to God's dealings with that people when he brought them out of Egypt, through the wilderness to Canaan, as their forlorn and deplorable condition in their captivity was compared to their state in Egypt in the day that they were born,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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