Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Hosea 12:3
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had (d) power with God:
(d) Seeing that God in this way preferred Jacob their father, Judah's ingratitude was the more to be abhorred.
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had (d) power with God:
(d) Seeing that God in this way preferred Jacob their father, Judah's ingratitude was the more to be abhorred.
Verse Hosea 12:3. _HE TOOK HIS BROTHER BY THE HEEL_] See on Genesis 25:26; Genesis 32:24, c....
HE TOOK HIS BROTHER BY THE HEEL IN THE WOMB - Whether or no the act of Jacob was beyond the strength, ordinarily given to infants in the womb, the meaning of the act was beyond man’s wisdom to declare...
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...
HE TOOK HIS BROTHER. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 25:26). TOOK... BY THE HEEL. Hebrew. _'akab._ Hence his name Jacob. HIS BROTHER. his very own brother (with. _eth)_. BY HIS STRENGTH. in his ma...
_He took his brother by the heel_ As if Jacob meant, The Supplanter. The same verb is used by Esau in an unfavourable sense in Genesis 27:36; but Hosea here evidently means to edify his people by the...
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...
_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...
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....
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...
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: HE - Jacob, contrasted with his degenerate descendants, called by his name Jacob, (: cf. , "O thou that art...
BY HIS STRENGTH] RV 'in his manhood.' It refers to Jacob's wrestling with the angel at Penuel (Genesis 32:24)....
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...
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...
_[Hosea 12:4]_ בַּ † בֶּ֖טֶן עָקַ֣ב אֶת ־אָ
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...
_Brother Esau, thus foreshewing what would happen, Genesis xxv. --- Angel. Septuagint, "God," whose place this angel held. Elohim implies both, ver. 4., and Genesis xxxii. 24._...
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...
In all this discourse the Prophet condemns the ingratitude of the people; and then he shows how shamefully they had departed from the example of their father, in whose name they yet took pride. This i...
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...
HE TOOK HIS BROTHER BY THE HEEL IN THE WOMB,.... That is, Jacob took his brother Esau by the heel, as he came forth from his mother's womb; the history of it is in Genesis 25:25. It is here observed,...
_He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:_ Ver. 3. _He took his brother by the heel in the womb_] To have hindered him if he could of the first birthrig...
_He took his brother by the heel in the womb_ From the mentioning of Jacob in the foregoing verse, the prophet takes occasion to put his posterity in mind of the particular favours God had bestowed up...
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, showing subtlety even before he was born. Genesis 25:26, AND BY HIS STRENGTH HE HAD POWER WITH GOD, Genesis 32:25;...
THE LORD'S ACCUSATION...
HAD POWER WITH GOD: _ Heb._ was a prince, or behaved himself princely...
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...
HE, Jacob, TOOK HIS BROTHER, Esau, by the heel in the womb: the matter of fact you have GENESIS 25:26; the design of mentioning it in this place is to mind them of that goodness which God showed to th...
Hosea 12:3 brother H251 heel H6117 (H8804) womb H990 strength H202 struggled H8280 (H8804) God H430 took -...
‘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...
_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...
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 12:3 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
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...
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...
Genesis 25:26; Genesis 32:24; James 5:16; Romans 9:11...
He — Jacob. Took his brother — The design of mentioning this is to mind them of that goodness which God shewed them in their father Jacob. His strength — This strength was not of nature, but of grace....