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Hosea 2:5

Hosea 2:5
For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

For their mother hath played the harlot,.... Or committed idolatry; which is the reason why she is to be pleaded with, and why the Lord will not own her as his wife, or be a husband to her; and why…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

She that conceived them hath done shamefully, literally, hath made shameful - The silence as to “what” she “made shameful” is more emphatic than any words. She “made shameful” everything which she…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Hosea 2:1-5

The first words of this chapter some make the close of the foregoing chapter, and add them to the promises which we have here of the great things God would do for them. When they shall have appointed…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

I will go after my lovers Israel, then, had given up the true Jehovah for -lovers" (i.e. not, as the Targum explains it, and as the phrase often means, especially in Ezekiel, the neighbouring peoples…