Hosea's Wife and Children
Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. Hos. 1:8
That is, when Gomer had weaned her daughter (Hos. 1:6).
she conceived, and... According to Kimchi, as the weaning of Lo-ruhamah points at the times of weakness, from Zachariah the son of Jeroboam to the times of Pekahiah, when the reigns were short and troublesome. So this son she conceived and bore represents the state of the nation in the times of Pekah; who reigned twenty years, and was too powerful for the kingdom of Judah, slew multitudes of them, and carried others captive, and assisted Rezin king of Syria against Ahaz king of Judah.
This period of time represented by the time she was weaning this baby is showing God waited for the punishment, to see if they would repent. Mothers generally nurse their babies about two years, so this was an interval of about two years. God did not want to punish His people, but He could not let them continue worshipping false gods.
The
third child, a son, was named Lo-Ammi, which means not My people. In
the ancient covenant formula God declared, “I will walk among you
and be your God, and you will be My people” (Lev. 26:12; cf. Exo.
6:7; Deut. 26:17-18). But now that relationship was to be severed.
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