Hosea 14

Hosea 14 is the fourteenth chapter of the Book of Hosea in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.[1][2] This chapter contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Hosea son of Beeri as an exhortation to repentance (Hosea 14:1-3) and a promise of God's blessing (Hosea 14:4-9).[3] It is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets.[4][5]

Hosea 14
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4Q166 "The Hosea Commentary Scroll", late first century B.C.
BookBook of Hosea
CategoryNevi'im
Christian Bible partOld Testament
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Text

The original text was written in Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 9 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008).[6] Fragments containing parts of this chapter in Hebrew were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, including 4Q78 (4QXIIc; 75–50 BCE) with extant verses 1–5 (verse 1–6 in Masoretic text);[7][8][9][10] and 4Q82 (4QXIIg; 25 BCE) with extant verses 8–9 (verses 9–10 in Masoretic text).[8][11][12][13]

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; B; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; Q; 6th century).[14][lower-alpha 1]

Hosea 14:5 Field of Lilies - Tiffany Studios, c. 1910.

Verse 1
O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God;
for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.[16]
  • "For thou hast fallen by thine iniquity": A reason is here assigned for the preceding invitation; ka-shalta is properly "thou hast stumbled," "made a false step," fallen, with the sense that "recovery was among future possibilities". The same thought may be included in the fact that Jehovah continues to call his erring people by the honored and honorable name of Israel, and to acknowledge himself their God. Kimchi writes, "For thou seest that through thine iniquity thou hast fallen, therefore it behooves thee to return to Jehovah, as nothing besides can raise thee from thy fall but thy return to him" and Aben Ezra states: "There is none can raise thee from thy fall but the Eternal alone."[17]

Verse 9
Who is wise, and he shall understand these things?
prudent, and he shall know them?
for the ways of the Lord are right,
and the just shall walk in them:
but the transgressors shall fall therein.[18]

This epilogue sums up the whole previous teaching. Only here Hosea uses the term "righteous," a rare character in his day.[3]

  • "The ways of the Lord": also called "the 'course' of His providence;" as it is written, "His ways are judgment" in Deuteronomy 32:4 and Daniel 4:37; "God, His ways are perfect" in Psalm 18:30; "the Lord is righteous in all His ways, and holy in all His works" in Psalm 145:17; "Thy way is in the sea, and Thy paths in the great waters, and Thy footsteps are not known" in Psalm 77:19; "... these are parts of His ways, but how little a portion is heard of Him, and the thunder of His power who can understand?" Job 26:14; "who hath enjoined Him His way, and who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?" in Job 36:23.[19]
  • "But the transgressors shall fall therein": the "transgressors of the law of God" according to Kimchi's father will "stumble in them and fall"; or as Jarchi and the Targum state, "they fall into hell, into ruin and destruction, because they walk not in them"; but the sense also seems as Christ himself, his ways and his word, his doctrines and his ordinances, be stumbling blocks to wicked men, at which they stumble, and fall, and perish; see Luke 2:34; Romans 9:33.[20]

See also

Notes
  1. Book of Hosea is missing from the extant Codex Sinaiticus.[15]

References
  1. Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary. 24th edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1965. p. 356
  2. Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
  3. Robert Jamieson, Andrew Robert Fausset; David Brown. Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's Commentary On the Whole Bible. 1871. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. Metzger, Bruce M., et al. The Oxford Companion to the Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  5. Keck, Leander E. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume: VII. Nashville: Abingdon.
  6. Würthwein 1995, pp. 35-37.
  7. Ulrich 2010, p. 597.
  8. Dead sea scrolls - Hosea
  9. Fitzmyer 2008, p. 38.
  10. 4Q78 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
  11. Fitzmyer 2008, p. 39.
  12. Ulrich 2010, p. 598.
  13. 4Q82 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
  14. Würthwein 1995, pp. 73-74.
  15. Shepherd, Michael (2018). A Commentary on the Book of the Twelve: The Minor Prophets. Kregel Exegetical Library. Kregel Academic. p. 13. ISBN 978-0825444593.
  16. Hosea 14:1 KJV or Hosea 14:1 in Hebrew Bible
  17. Joseph S. Exell; Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones (Editors). The Pulpit Commentary. 23 volumes. First publication: 1890. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  18. Hosea 14:9 KJV or Hosea 14:10 in Hebrew Bible
  19. Barnes, Albert. Notes on the Old Testament. London, Blackie & Son, 1884. Reprint, Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  20. John Gill. John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible. Exposition of the Old and New Testament. Published in 1746-1763. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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