Hosea 2

Treated in 12 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 2:2 Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 3
  • 2:14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. 3
  • 2:15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall make answer there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. 3
  • 2:19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. 2
  • 2:18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and will make them to lie down safely. 1

American Standard Version

Where it is preached

  1. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    1.3 The Preface to the Commandments cites Hos 2: 2

    …sclaim his interest in a people. ‘Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife.’ Hos 2: 2. ‘Thy people have corrupted themselves;’ no more my people, but thy people. Exod 32: 7. G…

  2. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.1 The First Commandment cites Hos 2: 2

    … more my people but thy people.’ ‘Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not my wife.’ Hos 2: 2. She does not keep faith with me, she has stained herself with idols, therefore I will di…

  3. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.2 The Second Commandment cites Hos 2: 2

    …; it makes God divorce a people. ‘Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not my wife.’ Hos 2: 2. ‘Jealousy is cruel as the grave.’ Cant 8: 6. As the grave devours men’s bodies, so God w…

  4. A Short and Easy Method of Prayer · Jeanne Guyon

    Rest in the Presence of God cites Hosea ii. 14

    …lure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak to her heart” (marginal reading of Hosea ii. 14). To be inwardly occupied with God, and outwardly occupied with countless trifles, this i…

  5. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The Wilderness State cites Hosea 2:14

    … walk in darkness.” 9. Another text which has been supposed to speak the same doctrine is Hosea 2:14: “I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.” …

  6. The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith · Charles H. Spurgeon

    The Month of July cites Hosea 2:14

    …N "I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her." Hosea 2:14 The goodness of God sees us allured by sin, and it resolves to try upon us the more power…

  7. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    The worst things work for good to the godly cites Hos. ii. 15

    … work for good, as they make way for comfort. “In the valley of Achor is a door of hope” (Hos. ii. 15) Achor signifies trouble. God sweetens outward pain with inward peace. “Your sorrow shall…

  8. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Fifth Stage cites Hos. 2:15

    …at go through it shall sing, as Christian did, for all he met with Apollyon. Psa. 84:5-7; Hos. 2:15. Mr. Great-Heart: ‘Tis true, said their guide; I have gone through this valley many a tim…

  9. Our Daily Walk · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    October cites Hos 2:15

    …ey of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth.”-- Hos 2:15. THE VALLEY of Achor is the emblem of defeat, failure, and the fainting heart. Down its l…

  10. The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith · Charles H. Spurgeon

    The Month of January cites Hos. 2:18

    …as spoken specially to thee. Jan. 4 IN CALM REPOSE "I will make them to lie down safely." Hos. 2:18 Yes, the Saints are to have peace. The passage from which this gracious word is taken spe…

  11. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    1.2 Love cites Hos 2: 19

    … dearest love. ‘I will betroth thee unto me for ever, in loving kindness and in mercies.’ Hos 2: 19. ‘The Lord thy God will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.’ Zeph 3: 17…

  12. The Bruised Reed · Richard Sibbes

    Of infirmities. No cause of discouragement, in whom they are, and how to recover peace lost cites Hos. ii. 19

    …salm lxxviii. 39. The husband is bound to bear with the wife, as being the weaker vessel, Hos. ii. 19; and shall we think he will exempt himself from his own rule, and not bear with his weak …