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Now when she had weaned Look-ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.
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A Period of Patient Grace
Commentators agree that the time it took to wean the child symbolizes a period of God's patient delay. Before enacting a more severe judgment, God granted Israel an interval, a final opportunity to repent. This weaning period represents God's longsuffering, not His forgetfulness or approval of their sin.
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Hosea
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Now when she had weaned ... - Eastern women very commonly nursed their children two, or even three () years. The weaning then of the child p…
16th Century
Protestant
The weaning the Prophet mentions here is by some understood allegorically, as if he said that the people would for a time be deprived of p…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Now when she had weaned Loruhamah That is, when Gomer had weaned her daughter of this name, (Hosea 1:6) …
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