Hosea 2:4 and the Children Paying for Parent's Sins
Hosea 2:4 states, "Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness" (ESV). This verse is part of a larger prophetic message in Hosea that uses the metaphor of an unfaithful wife to describe Israel's idolatry and spiritual adultery against God [1, 2]. The immediate
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- Hosea “Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness; -- Hosea 2:4”
- Hosea (Nonconformist/Puritan) “Matthew Henry on Hosea 2 (introduction): The scope of this chapter seems to be much the same with that of the foregoing chapter, and to point at the same events, and the causes of them. As there, so here, I. God, by the prophet, discovers sin to them, and charges it home upon them, the sin of their idolatry, their spiritual whoredom, their serving idols and forgetting God and their obligations to him (Hos 2:1, Hos 2:2, Hos 2:5, Hos 2:8). II. He threatens to take away from them that plenty of all good things with which they had served their idols, and to abandon them to ruin without remedy (Hos”