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ホセア記 1:7

7 しかし、わたしはユダの家をあわれみ、その神、主によってこれを救う。わたしは弓、つるぎ、戦争、馬および騎兵によって救うのではない」と。

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Jesus, the Christ;   Lo-Ruhamah;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Thompson Chain Reference - False;   Security-Insecurity;   Weapons;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Christ Is God;   Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gomer;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Christians, Names of;   Salvation;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Jesus Christ;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - King;   Prophet;   Ruhamah;   Saviour;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Arms and Armor;   Hosea;   Mercy, Merciful;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hosea;   Hosea, Book of;   Song of Songs;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Salvation Save Saviour;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Army;   Bowman;   Hosea;   Trinity;  

Devotionals:

- Faith's Checkbook - Devotion for September 4;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will: Hosea 11:12, 2 Kings 19:35, Isaiah 36:1 - Isaiah 37:38

will save: Isaiah 7:14, Isaiah 12:2, Isaiah 49:6, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 23:6, Zechariah 2:6-11, Zechariah 4:6, Zechariah 9:9, Zechariah 9:10, Matthew 1:21-23, Titus 3:4-6

by bow: Psalms 33:16, Psalms 44:3-6

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 14:23 - the Lord 1 Samuel 17:39 - put them off 1 Samuel 17:47 - saveth not 2 Kings 6:22 - thy sword 2 Kings 14:27 - he saved 2 Chronicles 32:22 - Lord Psalms 44:6 - General Psalms 62:6 - rock Psalms 68:20 - our God Psalms 106:21 - God Psalms 147:10 - delighteth Isaiah 31:8 - shall the Isaiah 35:4 - behold Isaiah 43:11 - General Isaiah 45:17 - Israel Isaiah 63:5 - mine own Isaiah 63:9 - the angel Jeremiah 3:23 - in the Lord Jeremiah 31:7 - O Jeremiah 33:26 - and have Micah 5:10 - that I Zechariah 10:6 - for I have Zechariah 12:8 - the house Matthew 21:5 - sitting Luke 24:44 - in the prophets Acts 10:36 - he is Hebrews 1:8 - O God

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But I will have mercy on the house of Judah,.... The two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, which retained the true worship of God among them; see Hosea 11:12 and though they often sinned against the Lord, he showed them mercy, and spared them longer than the ten tribes; and though he suffered them to be carried captive into Babylon, he returned them again after seventy years: this is mentioned as an aggravation of the punishment of Israel, that Judah was spared, when they were not; and to show that God will have a people to seek and serve him, and, when he rejects some, he will make a reserve of others:

and will save them by the Lord their God; by his own arm and power, and not theirs, or any creature's; nor by any warlike means or instruments whatever, as follows:

and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen: which may respect either the deliverance of the Jews from the invasion and siege of Sennacherib's army; which was done without shooting an arrow, or drawing the sword, or engaging in a pitched battle, or by a cavalry rushing into his camp, discomfiting his army, and pursuing them; but by an angel sent from heaven, which in one night destroyed a hundred and fourscore and five thousand, 2 Kings 19:35 or else refers to Cyrus being stirred up by the Lord to issue forth a proclamation, giving liberty to the Jewish captives to go free, without price or reward; and so was brought about, not by the might and power of man, but by the Spirit of the Lord; see Ezra 1:1 though a greater salvation is pointed at, or at least shadowed forth, by this, even the spiritual and eternal salvation of God's elect by Christ; which is the fruit of mercy, and not the effect of the merits of men; is obtained not by human power, or by man's righteousness; but by the Lord Jesus Christ, who is Jehovah our righteousness, the Lord God of his people; who stands in a relation to them prior to his being the Saviour of them; to which work and office he is equal, being the eternal Jehovah, and the true and living God. So the Targum,

"and I will save them by the Word of the Lord their God;''

the eternal Word, that was with God, is God, and became incarnate, God in our nature.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will have mercy on the house of Judah - For to them the promises were made in David, and of them, according to the flesh, Christ was to come. Israel, moreover, as being founded in rebellion and apostasy, had gone on from bad to worse. All their kings clave to the sin of Jeroboam; not one did right in the sight of God; not one repented or hearkened to God. Whereas Judah, having the true Worship of God, and the reading of the law, and the typical sacrifices, through which it looked on to the great Sacrifice for sin, was on the whole, a witness to the truth of God (see the note at Hosea 11:12).

And will save them by the Lord their God, not by bow ... - Shortly after this, God did, in the reign of Hezekiah, save them by Himself from Sennacherib, when the Angel of the Lord smote in one night 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. “Neither in that night, nor when they were freed from the captivity at Babylon, did they bend bow or draw sword against their enemies or their captors. While they slept, the Angel of the Lord smote the camp of the Assyrians. At the prayers of David and the prophets and holy men, yea, and of the angels Zechariah 1:12 too, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, to set them free “to go up to Jerusalem, and build the temple of the Lord God of Israel” Ezra 1:3. But much more, this is the special promise of the Gospel, that God would deliver, not outwardly, but inwardly; not by human wars, but in peace; not by man, but by Himself. “By the Lord their God,” by Himself who is speaking, or, The Father by the Son, (in like way as it is said, “The Lord rained upon Sodom fire from the Lord” Genesis 19:24).

They were saved in Christ, the Lord and God of all, not by carnal weapons of warfare, but by the might of Him who saved them, and shook thrones and dominions, and who by His own Cross triumpheth over the hosts of the adversaries, and overthroweth the powers of evil, and giveth to those who love Him, “to tread on serpents and scorpions and all the power of the enemy.” They were saved, not for any merits of their own, nor for anything in themselves. But when human means, and man’s works, such as he could do of his own free-will, and the power of his understanding, and the natural impulses of his affections, had proved unavailing, then he redeemed them by His Blood, and bestowed on them gifts and graces above nature, and filled them with His Spirit, and gave them “to will and to do of His good pleasure.” But this promise also was, and is, to the true Judah, i. e., to those who, as the name means, “confess and praise” God, and who, receiving Christ, who, as Man, was of the tribe of Judah, became His children, being re-born by His Spirit.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 1:7. But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah — I will spare them as a kingdom after Israel has been carried away into captivity by the Assyrians.

And will save them by the Lord their God — Remarkably fulfilled in the supernatural defeat of the army of the Assyrians, see 2 Kings 19:35; and so they were saved not by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, nor by horses, nor by horsemen. The former expression may mean, not in war by horses, i.e., yoked to war chariots, nor by horsemen-nor by cavalry, however efficient such troops might have then been deemed.


 
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