Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 11:3
I taught — As a mother or nurse helps the child. Taking them — Supporting and bearing them up. They knew not — They would not see nor acknowledge me in it.
I taught — As a mother or nurse helps the child. Taking them — Supporting and bearing them up. They knew not — They would not see nor acknowledge me in it.
Verse Hosea 11:3. _I TAUGHT EPHRAIM ALSO TO GO_] An allusion to a mother or nurse _teaching a child to walk_, directing it how to _lift and lay_ _its feet_, and supporting it in the meantime _by the a...
I TAUGHT EPHRAIM ALSO TO GO - Literally, “and I set Ephraim on his feet;” i. e., while they were rebelling, I was helping and supporting them, as a nurse doth her child, teaching it to go with little...
CHAPTER 9:10-11:11 RETROSPECT, ISRAEL'S FAILURE AND RUIN _ 1. Israel once beloved, now fugitive wanderers (Hosea 9:10) _ 2. Their guilt and punishment (Hosea 10:1) 3. Exhortation and rebuke (Hosea...
THE DIVINE FATHER'S LOVE FOR ISRAEL. In Israel's youth Yahweh loved him, and called him from Egypt to be His son, but he proved disloyal, sacrificing to the Baalim (Hosea 11:1 f.). Yet it was Yahweh w...
I TAUGHT, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 1:31; Deuteronomy 32:10; Deuteronomy 32:11; Deuteronomy 32:12
_I taught Ephraim also to go_ Rather, WHEREAS I TAUGHT EPHRAIM TO GO. A figure for the special providence watching over Ephraim. Not Judah, but Ephraim, is spoken of, for the kingdom of Israel embrace...
_GOD LOVED AND PROTECTED ISRAEL -- HOSEA 11:1-3:_ God said, "When Israel was a child, I loved him, and I called my son out of Egypt." When Israel was a young nation it was a matter of history that God...
HEALED THEM— _Preserved them._...
RECOGNIZING GOD'S COMPASSION REMONSTRATING TEXT: Hosea 11:1-9 1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. 2 The more the prophets called them, the more they went...
I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. I TAUGHT EPHRAIM ALSO TO GO - literally, to use his feet: 'I set Ephraim on his feet.' Compare a simila...
BY HIS STRENGTH] RV 'in his manhood.' It refers to Jacob's wrestling with the angel at Penuel (Genesis 32:24). I] RV 'Yet I.' Jehovah is here compared to a father teaching his child to walk, and carr...
THE INGRATITUDE OF ISRAEL Jehovah had been like a tender father and a kind master to Israel from the first, yet had they ever rejected Him and turned to idols. He cannot bear the thought of punishing...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 11 ISRAEL HAS FORGOTTEN THE *LORD V1 ‘I, (the *Lord), loved Israel when he was a child. I called my son out of Egypt....
Read, _Yet it was I who guided Ephraim’s steps, taking him by his arms._ There is a beautiful parallel to this in Deuteronomy 32:10. KNEW NOT... — This obtuseness to the source of all mercies — the re...
וְ אָנֹכִ֤י תִרְגַּ֨לְתִּי֙ לְ אֶפְרַ֔יִם קָחָ֖ם...
THE FATHERHOOD AND HUMANITY OF GOD Hosea 11:1 FROM the thick jungle of Hosea's travail, the eleventh chapter breaks like a high and open mound. The prophet enjoys the first of his two clear visions-...
“BANDS OF LOVE” Hosea 11:1-11 This is a very tender chapter, full of moving appeals. God looks back on the happy, blessed past, as a fond parent on the innocent childhood of a son who is now causing...
The third cycle of the prophecy sets forth the love which Jehovah had for His people, notwithstanding their sin. This section sets forth Jehovah's love toward His sinning people, and, for the most par...
_Healed them. My laws were designed to counteract idolatry. (Haydock) --- I treated them with the utmost tenderness, Deuteronomy i. 31., and xxxii. 11._...
Observe the grace of the Lord, by way of heightening that grace, in the riches of it! It was never for want of education, in any period of the Church, that his people revolted; for the Lord did by the...
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...
Here again God amplifies the sin of the people, by saying, that by no kindness, even for a long time, could they be allured, or turned, or reformed, or reduced to a sound mind. It was surely enough th...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9, 10, AND 11. In CHAPTER 9 we have here that touching mixture of affection and judgment which we find again and again in this prophet. Ephraim should not rem...
I TAUGHT EPHRAIM ALSO TO GO,.... All the tribes of Israel and Ephraim, or the ten tribes with the rest; these the Lord instructed in the way of his commandments, and taught them to walk therein; he hi...
I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. Ver. 3. _I taught Ephraim also to go_] A child he was, Hosea 11:1, and like a child I dealt with him, tea...
_I taught Ephraim also to go_ Hebrew, תרגלתי לאפרים, _I directed the feet of Ephraim._ In this time of Ephraim's childhood, I supported and directed his steps, as a mother or nurse those of a child wh...
I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms, that is, the Lord Himself took His people in His arms to lead them safely through the dangers of the desert, Deuteronomy 1:31; BUT THEY KNEW NOT...
THE PROOF OF JEHOVAH'S LOVE...
1-7 When Israel were weak and helpless as children, foolish and froward as children, then God loved them; he bore them as the nurse does the sucking child, nourished them, and suffered their manners....
I TAUGHT EPHRAIM ALSO TO GO; as a mother or nurse doth help the child, and with tenderest care doth guide and form its steps, and by long-continued patience waits on it; such like was the tenderness o...
Hosea 11:3 taught H8637 Ephraim H669 walk H8637 (H8809) Taking H3947 (H8800) arms H2220 know H3045 ...
‘Yet I taught Ephraim to walk, I took them on my arms, But they knew not that I healed them.' Yet in a touching picture God describes how He had ‘taught Ephraim (Israel) to walk' (through the covena...
YHWH DESCRIBES HOW HE HAD CALLED HIS SON (ISRAEL) OUT OF EGYPT AND WATCHED OVER HIM AS A FAITHFUL FATHER, TRAINING HIM IN THE RIGHT WAY, ONLY FOR HIS SON'S HEART TO REMAIN IN EGYPT SO THAT HE WOULD IN...
Hosea 11:1. _When Israel was a child,_ When the nation was yet young, and had scarcely started on its march among the peoples of the earth: «When Israel was a child,» Hosea 11:1. _Then I loved him,...
Hosea 11:1. _When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt._ God remembers what he did for us when we were young; and sin against him is much aggravated by his long kindne...
Hosea 11:1. _When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt._ God's love was very early love. He began with the nation of Israel when it was a mere handful of men in Egypt....
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. His tender love for Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Though men who have had relationship with God are ripe for ruin because of following their own couns...
Hosea 11:1. _When Israel was a child I loved him._ I led Joseph like a flock, by the hands of Moses and Aaron. I protected him among the kings of Canaan. I fed and multiplied him in Egypt; and when th...
_I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms._ TAKEN BY THE ARM When God redeems and shelters His people by the blood of the Paschal Lamb,--_i.e_., of Christ our Passover sacrificed for us...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 11:2 The Lord never stopped loving Israel. Throughout their history, he TAUGHT EPHRAIM (that is, Israel) TO WALK, and he HEALED THEM, as a father does with his chil
CRITICAL NOTES. HOSEA 11:1.] The prophet shows how Israel had repaid God’s love in the past with ingratitude and unfaithfulness. CHILD] “First-born son” (Exodus 4:22), the infancy in Egypt and the wil...
EXPOSITION In Hosea 11:1 Jehovah enumerates the benefits conferred on Israel all along from the time of their departure out of Egypt. But parallel with this enumeration runs the history of Israel's i...
God continues His lament and all. He said, When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt (Hsa Hosea 11:1). Now, this verse has been used in Matthew's gospel as a prophecy...
Acts 13:18; Deuteronomy 1:31; Deuteronomy 32:10; Deuteronomy 8:2;...
A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF HOSEA Hosea 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As introductory to our study of the Book of Hosea, we propose to show how God wrote His messages in Hosea, as well as by him. There is a ver...