Adam Clarke on Hosea 1:4
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Hosea1:4
Call his name Jezreel - יזרעאל that is, God will disperse. This seems to intimate that a dispersion or sowing of Israel shall take place; which happened under Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, 2Kgs 17:5, 2Kgs 17:6. But the word refers also to the name of a city, where Jehu slew Jezebel and all the children of Ahab. 2Kgs 9:10, 2Kgs 9:36; 2Kgs 10:6.
This was one of those prophetic names which we so often meet with in the Scriptures; e.g. Japheth Abraham, Israel, Judah, Joshua, Zerubbabel, Solomon, Sheer-jashub, etc.
The blood of Jezreel - Not Jehu's vengeance on Ahab's family, but his acts of cruelty while he resided at Jezreel, a city in the tribe of Issachar, Jos 19:18, where the kings of Israel had a palace, 1Kgs 21:1.
Will cause to cease the kingdom - Either relating to the cutting off of the kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians, see 1Kgs 21:6, or to the ceasing of the kingdom of Israel from the house of Jehu, 2Kgs 10:30, and which was fulfilled, 2Kgs 15:10. - Newcome.
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