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Your Restoration Blesses Others
Multiple commentators, especially Charles Spurgeon, emphasize that a believer's return to God has a ripple effect. When God restores you, those "under your shadow"—your family, friends, and community—also benefit from your renewed, life-giving influence. Your personal revival becomes a source of blessing and restoration for those connected to you.
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Hosea
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Albert Barnes
On Hosea 14:7
18th Century
Theologian
They that dwell under his shadow - that is, the shadow of the restored Israel, who had just been described under the image of a mag…
Charles Ellicott
On Hosea 14:7
19th Century
Bishop
It would be more in accordance with the Hebrew idiom to render, The dwellers under its shadow shall once more cause the corn to grow. The …
Charles Spurgeon
On Hosea 14:6–7
19th Century
Preacher
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return;<…
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John Calvin
On Hosea 14:6–7
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet continues with the same subject, but joins the beginning of the first verse with the second clause of the former verse. He had said tha…
John Gill
On Hosea 14:7
17th Century
Pastor
They that dwell under his shadow shall return
Either under the shadow of Lebanon, as Japhet and Jarchi; the shadow o…
Matthew Henry
On Hosea 14:4–8
17th Century
Minister
Israel seeks God's face, and they shall not seek it in vain. His anger is turned from them. Whom God loves, He loves freely���not because they dese…