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God's Strategic Withdrawal
Commentators explain that when God says He will "return to my place," it signifies a withdrawal of His manifest presence. This divine silence is not abandonment but a deliberate, disciplinary action. It is designed to create a void that only He can fill, prompting His people to realize their desperate need for Him and to turn back from their sin.
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Hosea
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Albert Barnes
On Hosea 5:15
18th Century
Theologian
I will go and return to My place - As the wild beast, when it has taken its prey, returns to its hiding place, so God, when He had fulfilled…
Charles Ellicott
On Hosea 5:15
19th Century
Bishop
Tenderness blends with judgment, and insulted love bleeds and hopes. The image of the lion is dropped. Jehovah speaks of “His own place”—Heaven. He…
John Calvin
On Hosea 5:15
16th Century
Theologian
The word שחר, shicker, signifies the morning; hence the verb means “to seek early” or “to rise early,” as people do when they apply themse…
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John Gill
On Hosea 5:15
17th Century
Pastor
I will go [and] return to my place Leave the countries of Israel and of Judah, where he has used to grant his gracious an…
Matthew Henry
On Hosea 5:8–15
17th Century
Minister
The destruction of impenitent sinners is not mere talk, to frighten them; it is a sentence which will not be recalled. And it is a mercy that we ha…