Hosea 2 Then gives us a more expanded view of this guilt and misery of Israel, and of their final blessedness. The beautiful description of the covenant made by the Lord for Israel, as between them and the beasts of the earth, after He has taken them into covenant with Himself, and the sight we get of the Lord at one end of a magnificent system of blessing and Israel at the other, after wilderness days, are exquisite indeed. “The valley of Achor” is also declared to be “a door of hope”—that is, judgment ending in victory or glory, tribulation in joy (Josh. 7). All these things speak of the death and resurrection of the nation.