Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Call his name Jezreel - 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, II Kings 17:5, II Kings 17:6. But the word refers also to the name of a city, where Jehu slew Jezebel and all the children of Ahab. II Kings 9:10, II Kings 9:36; II Kings 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, Joshua 19:18, where the kings of Israel had a palace, I Kings 21:1.
Will cause to cease the kingdom - Either relating to the cutting off of the kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians, see I Kings 21:6, or to the ceasing of the kingdom of Israel from the house of Jehu, II Kings 10:30, and which was fulfilled, II Kings 15:10. - Newcome.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Hosea 1:4:
2 Kings 15:12
Isaiah 7:20
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