Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and will make them to lie down safely." — Hosea 2:18 (ASV)
Make a covenant ... — There will be external harmony corresponding to the moral harmony within. The animal creation will change from hostility to humanity. (so also Isaiah 11:6-9.) Wars with foreign foes will not desolate Israel’s borders.