Hosea 2:4

Hosea 2:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
• New International Version (NIV)I will not show my love to her children, because they are the children of adultery.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Upon her children also I will have no mercy, because they are children of whoredom.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“I will not have mercy on her children, For they are the children of harlotry.

Context of Hosea 2:4

2Rebuke your mother; rebuke her. For she is not my wife and I am not her husband. Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face and her adultery from between her breasts. 3Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her as she was on the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and like a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst. I will have no compassion on her children because they are the children of promiscuity. 5Yes, their mother is promiscuous; she conceived them and acted shamefully. For she thought, “I will follow my lovers, the men who give me my food and water, my wool and flax, my oil and drink.” 6Therefore, this is what I will do: I will block her way with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so that she cannot find her paths.

Hosea 2:4 word by word

וְאֶת־בָּנֶ֖יהָ לֹ֣א אֲרַחֵ֑ם כִּֽי־בְנֵ֥י זְנוּנִ֖ים הֵֽמָּה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And I will not have mercyרָחַםrâcham · to have compassionH7355
• upon her childrenבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• of whoredomsזְנוּנִיםzânûn · fornicationH2183

Cross-references for Hosea 2:4

• Hosea 1:6She conceived again and gave birth to a daughter, and the Lord said to him: Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel. I will certainly take them away.
• Isaiah 27:11When its branches dry out, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, for they are not a people with understanding. Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not be gracious to them.
• Jeremiah 13:14I will smash them against each other, fathers and sons alike — this is the Lord’s declaration. I will allow no mercy, pity, or compassion to keep me from destroying them.’”
• Jeremiah 16:5“For this is what the Lord says: Don’t enter a house where a mourning feast is taking place. Don’t go to lament or sympathize with them, for I have removed my peace from these people as well as my faithful love and compassion.” This is the Lord’s declaration.
• Ezekiel 8:18Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not show pity or spare them. Though they call loudly in my hearing, I will not listen to them.”
• Ezekiel 9:10But as for me, I will not show pity or spare them. I will bring their conduct down on their own heads.”
• Zechariah 1:12Then the angel of the Lord responded, “How long, Lord of Armies, will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah that you have been angry with these seventy years?”
• Romans 9:18So then, he has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
• Romans 11:22Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness toward you — if you remain in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
• James 2:13For judgment is without mercy to the one who has not shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• Hosea 1:2When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, he said this to him: Go and marry a woman of promiscuity, and have children of promiscuity, for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity by abandoning the Lord.
• 2 Kings 9:22When Joram saw Jehu he asked, “Do you come in peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be as long as there is so much prostitution and sorcery from your mother Jezebel?”
• Isaiah 57:3But come here, you witch’s sons, offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute!
• John 8:41You’re doing what your father does.” “We weren’t born of sexual immorality,” they said. “We have one Father — God.”

Commentaries on Hosea 2:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4They be the children of whoredoms - They are all idolaters; and have been consecrated to idols, whose marks they bear.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-23Rebuke your mother, rebuke her: At first glance, the Lord, like an upset husband, seems to be giving a divorce to his unfaithful wife, Israel (see Deuteronomy 24:1). However, as the passage continues, it becomes clear that God’s goal in this lawsuit is not divorce, but reconciliation (Hosea 2:14–23). God’s case against Israel aims to make Israel aware of her sin and offer her a chance to return to her true husband. The Lord’s desire for reconciliation…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. her children--Not even her individual members shall escape the doom of the nation collectively, for they are individually guilty.Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 2:4

• Idolatry
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning

In the dictionaries

• Fornication
• Hedge
• Thorn
• Crime; Crimes
• Envy
• Hosea
• Mother
• Song of Songs
• Zechariah, Book of
• conceive, conceived, conception

Commentaries on Hosea 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings