Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Hosea 13:5
Verse Hosea 13:5. I did know thee] I approved of thee; I loved thee; and by miraculously providing for thee in that land of drought, I demonstrated my love.
Verse Hosea 13:5. I did know thee] I approved of thee; I loved thee; and by miraculously providing for thee in that land of drought, I demonstrated my love.
I DID KNOW THEE IN THE WILDERNESS - “God so knew them, as to deserve to be known by them. By “knowing” them, He shewed how He ought to be acknowledged by them.” “As we love God, because He first loved...
CHAPTER 13 EPHRAIM'S RUIN AND JUDGMENT _ 1. Ruin and judgment (Hosea 13:1) _ 2. It is thy destruction, O Israel! (Hosea 13:9) 3. Mercy to follow wrath (Hosea 13:12) 4. The desolation of the nearin...
HOSEA 13:1 (= Heb. Hosea 13:1 to Hosea 14:1). FACILIS DESCENSUS AVERNO. Israel has persistently lapsed into the Baal-worship and idolatry, and therefore shall be swept away as the chaff ...
I DID KNOW THEE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 2:7; Deuteronomy 8:15; Deuteronomy 32:10). Compare Amos 3:2. The Septuagint
Israel signed his own death-warrant when he lapsed into Baal-worship. Foolish as it is to -kiss calves", they persist in the practice. Therefore the nation can but drift away, like cloud, or chaff, or...
_I did know_, &c. Better, IT WAS I THAT KNEW, &c. -To know"=-to take favourable notice of", as Psalms 1:6 and often. _in the land of great drought_ Or, -of burning thirst" (the word occurs nowhere el...
_CONSEQUENCES OF REBELLION -- HOSEA 13:5-8:_ God took care of the nation of Israel while they were in the wilderness. He loved and accepted them because they were obedient to Him. He demonstrated His...
I DID KNOW THEE, &C.— _I fed thee,_ &c. Houbigant after the LXX....
REQUITINGGOD WILL PUNISH TEXT: Hosea 13:1-8 1 When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died, 2 And now they sin more and more, and ha...
I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. I DID KNOW THEE IN THE WILDERNESS - i:e., did acknowledge thee as mine, and so took care of thee (; ). As I knew thee as mine, so th...
ISRAEL'S IDOLATRY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES The main thought of this c., which is a continuation of the last (cp. Hosea 12:9; Hosea 13:4), is the folly of Israel incurring the enmity of God, who had shown...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 13 FINAL *JUDGEMENT ON ISRAEL V1 *Ephraim made himself very important in Israel. *Ephraim spoke and people shook with fear....
אֲנִ֥י יְדַעְתִּ֖יךָ בַּ † מִּדְבָּ֑ר בְּ אֶ֖רֶץ...
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...
TO OPPOSE GOD IS DESTRUCTION Hosea 13:1-14 Again, a very tender chapter. The lips that speak with trembling betray the heart that God can exalt. But when we turn to Baal, the emblem of self-confiden...
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...
Turning from this main line of the divine message, we now examine the prophet's interpolations. These set forth the history of Israel indicating their relation to Jehovah, and pronounce judgment. They...
_Knew: treated thee with kindness, or tried thee. (Calmet)_...
Whoever reads the history of Israel, and observes the Lord's kindness, and carefulness over that people, will enter into the beauty and grace here described, of the Lord's covenant faithfulness. See D...
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...
He afterwards adds _Thee I knew in the desert, in the land of droughts _God here confirms the truth that the Israelites had acted very absurdly in having turned their minds to other gods, for he himse...
Chapter 13 is the perpetual conflict of the affections and the judgment of God. The thought of their sin calls forth the announcement of the necessary and inevitable judgment. As soon as the judgment...
I DID KNOW THEE IN THE WILDERNESS,.... Where there were no food nor drink, where were scorpions, serpents, and beasts of prey; there the Lord knew them, owned them, and showed a fatherly affection for...
I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. Ver. 5. _I knew thee in the wilderness, in a place of great drought_] _In terra torridissima,_ where I gave thee _pluviam escatilem et...
_Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud_, &c. All the comparisons in this verse are intended to express a quick destruction, or that they should soon come to nothing. _Yet I am the Lord thy God_...
I did know thee, with true love and compassion, IN THE WILDERNESS, even during the desert journey, IN THE LAND OF GREAT DROUGHT, where the land and its inhabitants languished with thirst....
GOD'S BENEFITS SCORNED BY ISRAEL...
GREAT DROUGHT: _ Heb._ droughts...
1-8 While Ephraim kept up a holy fear of God, and worshipped Him in that fear, so long he was very considerable. When Ephraim forsook God, and followed idolatry, he sunk. Let the men that sacrifice k...
I DID KNOW, owned, took care of, guided, and supplied, thee, O Israel, in thy fathers, IN THE WILDERNESS; through which for forty years together thou wast moving, and foundest nothing for thy sustenan...
Hosea 13:5 knew H3045 (H8804) wilderness H4057 land H776 drought H8514 know - Exodus 2:25;...
‘I knew you in the wilderness, In the land of great drought. According to their pasture, So were they filled, They were filled, and their heart was exalted, Therefore have they forgotten me.' Fur...
BECAUSE EPHRAIM HAVE OFFENDED SO DEEPLY, AND HAVE REJECTED THEIR DELIVERER, JUDGMENT UPON THEM IS INEVITABLE (HOSEA 13:1). The crimes of Israel are again laid bear. They are guilty of idolatry (Hosea...
Hosea 13:1. _When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel;_ When we are little in our own esteem, when we are full of fears concerning ourselves, when we dare not think of boasting, the...
Hosea was full of complaints against the people of God; for, in his day, they had very sadly wandered from the Lord. They had even forgotten him. In Hosea's prophecy, we have the plaintive voice of a...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Israel's ruin. Ultimate blessing in the kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Worldly prosperity, which feeds men's pride, makes them forgetful of God, a...
Hosea 13:2. _Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves._ The readings vary here. The LXX, “You must sacrifice men, for there are no more calves.” The Vulgate Latin reads, “Sacrifice the men that wors...
_I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought._ WILDERNESS-KNOWLEDGE God knows His people where nobody else will take any notice of them. You do not know a man until you know him i...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 13:1 The man-made gods that Israel worships are nothing compared to their actual God, who is living, active, and true to his word. ⇐...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 13:4 BUT I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT. This is a solemn statement that recalls Exodus 20:2. The passing w
CRITICAL NOTES.] HOSEA 13:5. KNOW] _i.e._ cared for them, and loved them as his own (Psalms 144:3; Amos 3:2). HOSEA 13:6.] A reproof
EXPOSITION The first eight verses of this chapter form the premises from which the prophet, in the ninth verse, draws the conclusion that the conduct of Israel had been suicidal; that they had brought...
Now when Ephraim was speaking trembling (Hsa Hosea 13:1), That is, when Ephraim was not proud and exalted, but recognized their own weakness and all, then the LORD exalted himself in Israel; but whe...
1 Corinthians 8:3; Deuteronomy 2:7; Deuteronomy 32:10; Deuteronomy 8:15;...
I did know — Owned, took care of, guided and supplied....