Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Now when she had weaned ... - Eastern women very commonly nursed their children two, or even three (2 Macc. 7:27) years. The weaning then of the child portrays a certain interval of time between these two degrees of chastisement; but after this reprieve, the last and final judgment pictured here was to set in irreversibly.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Hosea 1:8:
Isaiah 8:18
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