The Lord God of hosts — He that appeared and spake, who promised the blessing and commanded the reformation at Beth — el was Jehovah, the eternal and unchangeable God; who can perform his promise, and execute his threat, who is a most terrible enemy, and most desirable friend. The Lord — Jehovah, repeated for confirmation. His memorial — By this he will be known.
Verse Hosea 12:5. _THE LORD_ IS _HIS MEMORIAL._] He is the same God as when Jacob so successfully wrestled with him....
EVEN THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS, THE LORD IS HIS MEMORIAL - The word, here as translated and written Lord, is the special and, so to say, the proper Name of God, that which He gave to Himself, and which de...
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 ...
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...
EVEN, &C. Render: "and Jehovah [is] God (_Elohim_) of the Hosts; Jehovah [is] His memorial [Name]. "This is for strong confirmation. MEMORIAL. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 3:15). App-92....
_Even the Lord God of hosts_, &c. The Hebrew runs more abruptly, -And Jehovah" &c., i.e. -and the name of Him who spoke with Jacob is Jehovah." -Jehovah" to the prophets conveys the ideas of almightin...
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...
_TRUST THE LORD AND RETURN TO HIM -- HOSEA 12:5-6:_ Hosea wanted to communicate to both Israel and Judah that Jehovah is the same God as when Jacob so successfully wrestled with Him. He is, was and al...
THE LORD IS HIS MEMORIAL— The person, of whom it is here said, that the name _Lord_ or JEHOVAH _is his memorial,_ is no other than he whom the patriarch found at Beth-el, who there spake with the Isra...
LOVE REBUKING REQUITINGEPHRAIM HAS PROVOKED TEXT: Hosea 12:1-6 1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant...
Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial. EVEN THE LORD GOD - Yahweh (H3068), a name implying His immutable constancy to His promises. From the old Hebrew root [haawaah, which became mo...
12:5 memorial. (a-12) See Exodus 3:15 ....
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...
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...
LORD GOD OF HOSTS. — See Cheyne’s _Isaiah,_ vol. 1, pp. 11, 12, and Nowack’s commentary on this passage. Probably the hosts were the stars which were conceived of as celestial spirits standing upon or...
_[Hosea 12:6]_ וַֽ יהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י הַ צְּבָאֹ֑ות...
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...
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...
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...
_Memorial, and the object of worship; or this great Jehovah spoke to Jacob._...
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...
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...
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...
EVEN THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS,.... The God Jacob had power over, the Angel he prevailed with, to whom he made supplication with weeping, and who spake with him and his in Bethel, is he whose name is Jeho...
Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD [is] his memorial. Ver. 5. _Even the Lord God of hosts_] Lo, he it is who promised, who spake with us at Bethel; even that Jehovah, who is himself unchangeable an...
_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...
even the Lord God of hosts, the most exalted Ruler of the universe. THE LORD IS HIS MEMORIAL, who had revealed Himself to the patriarchs as the God of salvation....
THE LORD'S ACCUSATION...
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...
EVEN, or and, he that appeared and spake, who promised the blessing, and commanded the reformation at Beth-el, was THE LORD, Jehovah, the eternal and unchangeable God, who still promiseth with like co...
Hosea 12:5 LORD H3068 God H430 hosts H6635 LORD H3068 memorable H2143 Even - Genesis 28:16,...
‘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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord is his memorial._ THE NAME JEHOVAH AS A MEMORIAL To stir them up to present duty, Hosea describes God, who did all this, and spake to Jacob, as the true God and...
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. ⇐...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 12:5 Hosea again reminds Israel of their spiritual heritage. MEMORIAL NAME. See Exodus 3:15. God’s choosing of Israel is the reason Israel can now retur
CRITICAL NOTES.] Hosea 12:5. Lord] A name which implies constancy, by which God is distinguished and ever remembered (Exodus 3:15; Psalms 135:13). _HOMILETICS_ THE MEMORIAL NAME.—
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...
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...
Exodus 3:15; Genesis 28:16; Genesis 32:30; Isaiah 42:8; Psalms 135:13