Hosea 12:6
What meaning of the hosea 12:6 in the Bible?
What does Hosea 12:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually."
What does Hosea 12:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually."
Verse Hosea 12:6. _THEREFORE TURN THOU TO THY GOD_] Because he is the same, and cannot change. Seek him as faithfully and as fervently as Jacob did, and you will find him the same merciful and compass...
THEREFORE TURN THOU TO THY GOD - (Literally, “And thou, thou shalt turn” so as to lean “on thy God.”) “And thou” unlike, he would say, as thou art to thy great forefather, now at least, “turn to thy G...
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 12:7) Chapter 11:12-12:2. Lying a...
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...
THEREFORE, &C. Compare Hosea 14:1. MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace. WAIT ON THY GOD. wait for thy God. Ref to Pentateuch (Genesis 49:18). Compare Psalms 37:7; Isaiah 25:9; Isaiah 26:8; Isaiah 33:2.Ma...
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...
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....
THEREFORE TURN THOU, &C.— From these words we learn on what account that which is said concerning Jacob, and concerning God, is spoken; and how it so concerned the Israelites of Hosea's time, as that...
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...
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. THEREFORE TURN THOU - who dost wish to be a true descendant of Jacob. TO THY GOD - who is therefore boun...
12:6 loving-kindness (b-8) Or 'goodness.'...
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...
THEREFORE... — More correctly, _But do thou return to thy God._ There is an implied contrast between the patriarch and his degenerate descendants in the days of Hosea....
_[Hosea 12:7]_ וְ אַתָּ֖ה בֵּ אלֹהֶ֣יךָ תָשׁ֑וּב חֶ֤סֶד וּ מִשְׁפָּט֙ שְׁמֹ֔ר וְ קַוֵּ֥ה אֶל...
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...
The Prophet here follows up the just and becoming resolution which ought to take place in every heart of Jacob's children, whether Ephraim or Judah, in pursuing the steps of their father. And he goes...
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 is now here urgent on the people. Having referred to the example of the patriarch, he shows how unlike him were his posterity, with whom God could avail nothing by sound teaching, though h...
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...
THEREFORE TURN THOU TO THY GOD,.... Judah, with whom the Lord had a controversy, is here addressed and exhorted to return to the Lord, from whom they had backslidden; and this is urged, from the consi...
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. Ver. 6. _Therefore turn thou to thy God_] The premises considered, repent; and so return to God, from whom th...
_Therefore turn thou to thy God_ “Thou therefore, O Israel, encouraged by the memory of God's love to thy progenitor, and by the example which thou hast in him, of the efficacy of weeping and supplica...
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 conten...
THEREFORE; no more vainly boast of Jacob; but, as he, do you approve yourselves to God. TURN THOU TO THY GOD; repent, leave idols, and all sins. He worshipped God alone, do you so; he cast idols out o...
Hosea 12:6 God H430 return H7725 (H8799) Observe H8104 (H8798) mercy H2617 justice H4941 wait H6960 (H8761) God H430 continually H8548 turn - Hosea 14:1; Proverbs 1:23; Isaiah 31:6,...
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...
_Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and Judgment, and wait on thy God continually._ INSTRUCTIONS TO THE UNCONVERTED AND TO THE CONVERTED As encouragement to repentance, the example of the pa...
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. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagNa...
TRUE CONVERSION TO GOD.—_Hosea 12:6_ CRITICAL NOTES.] Hosea 12:6. Turn] Lit. thou shalt turn, so turn as to enter into vital fellowship with God (Isaiah 10:22). THOU] who wishest to be a true desce...
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 an...
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...
Acts 2:38; Acts 26:20; Amos 5:24; Genesis 49:18; Habakkuk 2:3; Hosea 14:1; Hosea 4:1; Isaiah 1:16; Isaiah 30:18; Isaiah 31:6;...
Turn — Repent, leave idols and all sins. He worshipped God alone, do you so; he cast idols out of his family, do you so too; be Jacob's children herein. Mercy — Shew kindness to all who need it. Judgm...