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Verse Hosea 12:4. _HE HAD POWER OVER THE ANGEL_] Who represented the
invisible Jehovah.
_HE WEPT, AND MADE SUPPLICATION_] He entreated with tears that God
would bless him; and he _prevailed_. The cir...
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HE WEPT AND MADE SUPPLICATION UNTO HIM - Jacob’s weeping is not
mentioned by Moses. Hosea then knew more than Moses related. He could
not have gathered it out of Moses, for Moses relates the words of...
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CHAPTER S 11:12-12:14 THE INDICTMENT
_ 1. Ephraim's indictment (Hosea 11:12; Hosea 12:1) _
2. Remembrance of the past (Hosea 12:3)
3. What Israel had become ...
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HOSEA 11:12 TO HOSEA 12:14 (= Hebrews 12:1). EPHRAIM'S INFIDELITY
TRACED FROM THE BEGINNING. This is one of the most difficult passages
in Hosea. In the text Judah also is mentioned; but this may be d...
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THE ANGEL. Defined in Hosea 12:5.
PREVAILED. He (the Angel) overcame him (Jacob). See notes on Genesis
32:28. Hence the change of Jacob's name to "Israel". God commands.
HE WEPT: i.e. Jacob. This is...
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Two episodes (for a third, see Hosea 12:12) in the history of Jacob
are applied to the spiritual wants of his descendants. Jacob in the
very womb seemed ambitious of the blessing, and when a grown man...
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_he had power over_ Rather, HE CONTENDED WITH.
_he wept_, &c. (The subject is Jacob, not the angel.) This feature is
not given in Genesis 32; it is however well adapted to the hortatory
object of Hos...
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_GOD'S CONTROVERSY WITH ISRAEL AND JUDAH -- HOSEA 12:1-4:_ Israel was
wasting her time on that which had no spiritual substance. It was like
feeding on the wind. It was an "east" wind or a wind off of...
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DISCOURSE: 1172
JACOB WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL
Hosea 12:3; Hosea 12:6. _By his strength he had power with God: yea,
he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept and made
supplication unto him....
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YEA, HE HAD POWER OVER THE ANGEL, &C.— Concerning this translation,
see the notes on Genesis 32. Houbigant reads the last clause of the
verse, _And there he spake with him: even Jehovah God of Hosts,_...
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LOVE REBUKING
REQUITINGEPHRAIM HAS PROVOKED
TEXT: Hosea 12:1-6
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Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he
continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant...
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Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made
supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with
us;
YEA, HE HAD POWER OVER THE ANGEL - the uncreated "ange...
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A REPROOF OF COMMERCIAL DISHONESTY
The Hebrew text divides the chapter more correctly at this v. The
prophet returns to the subject of the unfaithfulness both of Israel
and of Judah. They have sought...
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HE WEPT] Not mentioned in Genesis 32:25. HE FOUND HIM] the subject is
Jehovah. IN BETH-EL] The reference is probably to Jacob's dream
(Genesis 28:10). WITH US] Hosea here regards God's promises to Jac...
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THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING
HOSEA
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 12
V1 There is much that the people of Israel do from morning to night.
But it has no worth. They tell lies and they destroy thi...
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HAD POWER. — Should be, _strove._ Prayers and tears were the weapons
used in the memorable struggle for pardon, reconciliation, peace in
the self-conquest as well as the God-conquest which was achieve...
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_[Hosea 12:5]_ וָ יָּ֤שַׂר אֶל ־מַלְאָךְ֙ וַ...
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THE FINAL ARGUMENT
Hosea 12:1 - Hosea 14:1
THE impassioned call with which the last chapter closed was by no
means an assurance of salvation: "How am I to give thee, up, Ephraim?
how am I to let thee...
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TURN TO GOD, NOT TO SELFISH GAIN
Hosea 11:12; Hosea 12:1-14
Though Judah still ruled with God, Hosea 11:12, yet there was grave
fault in him, and, like Ephraim, which had been engaging the prophet's...
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In the second movement Jehovah set the present sin in the light of His
present love. The sin of Ephraim and the sin of Judah, if the marginal
reading be adopted, are both declared. The sin of Ephraim...
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Yea, he had (e) power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made
supplication unto him: (f) he found him [in] Bethel, and there he
spake with us;
(e) Read (Genesis 32:24).
(f) God found Jacob a...
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Wept. Septuagint, "they wept, and besought me." Other interpreters
agree with the Vulgate. --- Us. By changing a vowel point, in Hebrew,
it might be, "He spoke to him." (Cap.[Cappel?;] Grotius) --- Th...
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We have here the most honorable testimony of the Patriarch Jacob, in
the record God the Holy Ghost hath been pleased to give of his conduct
at Bethel in that memorable night, when expecting the furiou...
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The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy
Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so
much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...
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And since this was especially worthy of being remembered, he repeats,
that _he had power with the angel, and prevailed_. But we have already
said how Jacob prevailed not indeed of himself, but because...
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The Spirit presents another aspect of the relationship of Israel with
God. He would punish Ephraim, and the sins of Judah should be
remembered. But He reminds them, that there was a time when Jacob
co...
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YEA, HE HAD POWER OVER THE ANGEL, AND PREVAILED,.... This is repeated
in different words, not only for the confirmation of it, it being a
very extraordinary thing, and difficult of belief; but to dire...
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Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made
supplication unto him: he found him [in] Bethel, and there he spake
with us;
Ver. 4. _Yea, he had power over the angel_] That Angel...
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_He had power over the angel_ Called God, Hosea 12:3, and Jehovah, God
of hosts, Hosea 12:5, namely, God by nature and essence, and an angel
by office and voluntary undertaking. _He wept and made supp...
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1-6 Ephraim feeds himself with vain hopes of help from man, when he
is at enmity with God. The Jews vainly thought to secure the Egyptians
by a present of the produce of their country. Judah is conte...
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HE; your famous progenitor of whom you boast. HAD POWER; behaved
himself as a prince with God, GENESIS 32:28. OVER; with: the angel was
willing to be conquered, or Jacob could not have gotten the vict...
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Hosea 12:4 struggled H7786 (H8799) Angel H4397 prevailed H3201 (H8799)
wept H1058 (H8804) favor H2603 ...
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‘In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he
had power with God, yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed.
He wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Beth-el,...
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AN APPEAL IS MADE TO JACOB'S EXAMPLE WHICH SIMPLY SERVES TO REVEAL
ISRAEL'S PARLOUS STATE AND GUARANTEES THE COMING JUDGMENT OF
DESTRUCTION AND THE EXILE BUT IT IS WITH THE PROMISE OF FINAL
RESTORATIO...
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YHWH MAKES A FURTHER APPEAL TO EPHRAIM AND JUDAH ON THE BASIS OF WHAT
THEIR ANCESTOR JACOB DID (HOSEA 12:1).
Having first stressed Ephraim's total folly and unacceptable
deceitfulness, and the fact th...
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ANGEL
(_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Further reproof of Israel's
sins.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: Those who make creatures and things their confidence, put
a cheat upon their own souls, and pr...
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Hosea 12:4. _He found him in Bethel._ Christ, the angel, the mystical
angel, or the Angel the Word, as St. Clemens of Alexandria calls him:
so indeed do all the orthodox fathers. The church knows of n...
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_And by his strength he had power with God._
WRESTLING JACOB
This story has a strange fascination for most Bible readers, due, in
part, to the vividness with which it is told; in part, to the deep
sp...
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HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 12:2 Hosea recounts incidents from Israel’s
past in order to display the Lord’s enduring kindness and Israel’s
stubborn ingratitude.
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HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 12:3 HE STROVE WITH THE ANGEL AND PREVAILED at
Peniel (Genesis 32:24). There the angel touched Jacob’s hip socket
and put it out of joint. That div
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Hosea 12:3.] Jacob was their forefather; they should imitate his good,
not his bad qualities. They are descendants, but their ways contrast
with his (Micah 2:7). He secured the birth...
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EXPOSITION
In Hosea 12:1 God continues his complaint against Ephraim, charging
them specially with the pursuit of vain and futile courses to their
great detriment. Instead of repairing to the true and...
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Ephraim feeds on the wind, and follows after the east wind: he daily
increases lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the
Assyrians (Hsa Hosea 12:1),
They tried to escape the destructi...
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1 Thessalonians 4:17; Acts 7:30; Exodus 3:2; Genesis 28:11;...
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The angel — Called Hosea 12:3, God; and Hosea 12:5, Jehovah, Lord of
hosts. He was no created angel, but the Messiah; eternal God by nature
and essence, angel by office, and voluntary undertaking. He...