Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Hosea 12:13
And by a (m) prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
(m) Meaning Moses, by which appears that whatever they have, it comes from God's free goodness.
And by a (m) prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
(m) Meaning Moses, by which appears that whatever they have, it comes from God's free goodness.
Verse Hosea 12:13. _BY A PROPHET_ (Moses) _THE LORD BROUGHT ISRAEL OUT OF_ _EGYPT, AND BY A PROPHET_ (Joshua) _WAS HE PRESERVED__._] Joshua succeeded Moses, and brought the Israelites into the promis...
BY A PROPHET WAS HE PRESERVED - Or “kept.” Jacob “kept sheep” out of love of God, sooner than unite himself with one, alien from God; his posterity “was kept” like a sheep by God, as the Psalmist said...
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...
BY. PROPHET: i.e. Moses. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 12:50; Exodus 12:51; Exodus 13:3.Numbers 12:6. App-92. Compare...
As Ewald remarks, -this is probably the oldest instance of a spiritualizing of the ancient history, though the way to it had been long prepared by the conception, so familiar to Hosea himself (chaps,...
Not Israel, but Canaan should he be called; for his ideal is Canaan's. The end justifies the means, and his end is to become rich! But how bitterly will he be disappointed. He must in short begin his...
_by a prophet_ i.e. Moses (comp. Deuteronomy 34:10). Hosea contrasts the helplessness and the hardships of Jacob-Israel with the wonderful deliverance and preservation of his descendants. Comp. Isaiah...
_ISRAEL PROVOKED GOD TO ANGER -- HOSEA 12:11-14:_ Gilead was a large area in Palestine known for producing many healing items but they had become terribly sinful. Now they will end up in ruin. Bulls w...
REQUITINGEPHRAIM HAS PROVOKED TEXT: Hosea 12:7-14 7 He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me...
And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved. AND BY A PROPHET - Moses, the highest kind of prophet (Numbers 12:6-4; Deuteronomy 18:15;...
12:13 preserved. (g-17) Or 'kept,' as ver. 12....
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...
A PROPHET. — Moses is here referred to, and there is, perhaps, a hint that the Lord would yet again save Israel from worse than Egyptian bondage by the words and warnings of a prophet....
_[Hosea 12:14]_ וּ בְ נָבִ֕יא הֶעֱלָ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה...
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...
_Prophet. Josue put the people in possession of the country, and offered sacrifice at Galgal, where the rite of circumcision was performed. This place is now defiled. What perfidy (Haydock) and ingrat...
The Holy Ghost is here again pleased to refer to the history of Jacob, and affectionately speaks of him and his love. But if Jacob be so spoken of under those endearments of character; what must we sa...
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...
_And God_, he says, _brought you up by a Prophet from Egypt, and by a Prophet you have been preserved _This was, as it were, their second nativity. Some think that the comparison is between their firs...
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...
AND BY A PROPHET THE LORD BROUGHT ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT,.... Or, "by the prophet"; the famous and most excellent prophet Moses, who, by way of eminency, is so called; him the Lord sent, and employed, an...
And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved. Ver. 13. _And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt_] That is, Gilead served as a sanctuary unto...
Hos. 12:12, 13, "And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep. And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he pr...
_Is there iniquity in Gilead?_ Or, _Was there idolatry in Gilead?_ as the word און often signifies. _Surely they are vanity, &c., in Gilgal_ The tribes settled about Gilead beyond Jordan, were already...
And, this being noted by way of contrast, BY A PROPHET THE LORD BROUGHT ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT, Numbers 12:6; Deuteronomy 18:15, AND BY A PROPHET WAS HE PRESERVED, for it was the intercession of Moses wh...
ANOTHER SERIOUS REPROACH...
7-14 Ephraim became a merchant: the word also signifies a Canaanite. They carried on trade upon Canaanitish principles, covetously and with fraud and deceit. Thus they became rich, and falsely suppos...
BY A PROPHET, by Moses, THE LORD BROUGHT ISRAEL, your forefathers, out of Egypt; where they had been bondmen two hundred and fifteen years, or near upon it, old slaves, or vassals for some descents. B...
Hosea 12:13 prophet H5030 LORD H3068 brought H5927 (H8689) Israel H3478 Egypt H4714 prophet H5030 preserved H8104 ...
‘And by a prophet YHWH brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he shepherded.' The close connection of this verse with Hosea 12:12 demonstrates that Hosea intended the two descriptions to...
HAVING MADE HIS APPEAL FOR REPENTANCE HOSEA NOW INDICATES THAT EPHRAIM ARE SO CONFIDENT IN THEMSELVES THAT THEIR ONLY HOPE WILL BE AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN ‘BROUGHT DOWN A PEG OR TWO' (HOSEA 12:8). This p...
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...
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. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Hosea 12:11. Vanity] The question strengthens the affirmation. All was to no purpose. Warnings unheeded, altars as numerous as heaps of stones gathered out of the field, and scenes...
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...
1 Samuel 12:8; Acts 3:22; Acts 3:23; Acts 7:35; Amos 2:11;...
A prophet — By Moses. Israel — Your forefathers. Preserved — In the wilderness. The aim of the prophet seems to be this, to prevent their vain pride, and boasting of their ancestors....