Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Hosea 13:4
Yet I [am] the LORD thy God (e) from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for [there is] no saviour beside me.
(e) He calls them to repentance, and reproves their ingratitude.
Yet I [am] the LORD thy God (e) from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for [there is] no saviour beside me.
(e) He calls them to repentance, and reproves their ingratitude.
Verse Hosea 13:4. _I_ AM _THE LORD THY GOD_] This was the first discovery I made of myself to you, and the _first commandment_ I gave; and I showed you that besides me there was no Saviour. There is...
YET - , (literally, and) I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt God was still the same God who had sheltered them with His providence, ever since He had delivered them from Egypt. He had the sam...
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 ...
YET I, &C. Supply the connecting thought: "[Ye worship these calves], yet I, even I". &c. Compare Hosea 12:9; Isaiah 43:11. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. FROM THE...
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...
_Yet I am the Lord thy God_ Hosea persistently refuses to recognize that the god whom the Israelites worship is really Israel's God, Jehovah. The use of an idolatrous symbol has so unspiritualized the...
_ISRAEL SINNED MORE AND MORE -- HOSEA 13:1-4:_ There was a time when the leaders in Israel spoke for God and the people showed great respect for Him. As long as Israel had respect for God she enjoyed...
DISCOURSE: 1173 JEHOVAH ALONE DESERVING OF OUR FEAR OR CONFIDENCE Hosea 13:4. _Thou shalt know no God but me: for there is no Saviour beside me_. IN the Holy Scriptures, every kind of argument is urg...
YET I AM, &C.— _For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: And thou shalt see that there is no other God but me, nor any Saviour beside me._ Houbigant....
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...
Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me. YET I AM THE LORD THY GOD FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT - (; , "I, even I, am the L...
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...
YET.. EGYPT] see on Hosea 12:9. 5, 6. I.. THEE] In the wilderness Jehovah became their friend. He knew them, and bade them know Him. But when they prospered in a land of fertility, they became proud...
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....
The LXX. have an addition which was not found by Jerome in any Hebrew copy of his day, and was pronounced by him to be spurious: “I am the Lord thy God, that establisheth the heavens and createth the...
וְ אָנֹכִ֛י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ מֵ אֶ֣רֶץ מִצְ
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Prophet now repeats the sentence which we have noticed in the last chapter for the sake of amplifying the sin of the people. For had they never known sound doctrine, had they never been brought up...
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...
YET I [AM] THE LORD THY GOD FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT,.... Which brought thee out from thence, as the Targum; and ever since, from that time to this, had shown a regard unto them, as the Lord their God,...
Yet I [am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for [there is] no saviour beside me. Ver. 4. _Yet I am the Lord thy God, &c._] Yet for all the sorrow; and thoug...
_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_...
Yet, over against the faithlessness of an apostate people, I AM THE LORD, THY GOD, FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT, since the days when He delivered His people from the house of bondage, AND THOU SHALT KNOW NO...
GOD'S BENEFITS SCORNED BY ISRAEL...
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...
YET, though thou hast so revolted, and chosen other gods, it is not occasioned by any change in me, I AM what I was, THE LORD, the mighty God, the everlasting God, Jehovah. _Thy God from the land of E...
Hosea 13:4 LORD H3068 God H430 land H776 Egypt H4714 know H3045 (H8799) God H430 Me H2108 Savior...
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...
‘Yet I am YHWH your God, From the land of Egypt, And you shall know no god but me, And besides me there is no saviour'. And yet this should not have happened. It need not have happened. What they h...
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...
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 13:4. YET] Another contrast between the idolatry of Israel and the mercy of God to them (cf. Hosea 12:10). _HOMILETICS_ GOD THE ONLY SAVIOUR.—_Hosea 13:4_ The people may be w...
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...
Acts 4:12; Exodus 20:2; Hosea 12:9; Isaiah 43:10; Isaiah 43:11;...
Thou shalt know — I forbad thee to know any other God but me, in gratitude thou shouldest know no other....