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Hosea 13:3-13

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3 Therefore they will be like the 1morning cloud And like dew which soon disappears, Like 2chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor And like 3smoke from a chimney.
4 Yet I have been the 4LORD your God Since the land of Egypt; And you were not to know 5any god except Me, For there is no savior 6besides Me.
5 I 7cared for you in the wilderness, 8In the land of drought.
6 As they had their pasture, they became 9satisfied, And being satisfied, their 10heart became proud; Therefore * they 11forgot Me.
7 So I will be 12like a lion to them; Like a 13leopard I will lie in wait by the wayside.
8 I will encounter them 14like a bear robbed of her cubs, And I will tear open their chests *; There I will also 15devour them like a lioness, As a wild beast would tear them.
9 It is your destruction, O Israel, That you are 16against Me, against your 17help.
10 Where now is your 18king That he may save you in all your cities, And your 19judges of whom you requested, "Give me a king and princes "?
11 I 20gave you a king in My anger And 21took him away in My wrath.
12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; His sin is 22stored up.
13 The pains of 23childbirth come upon him; He is 24not a wise son, For it is not the time that he should 25delay at the opening * of the womb.
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Hosea 13:3-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO HOSEA 13

This chapter begins with observing the different state and condition of Ephraim before and after his idolatry, Ho 13:1; his increase in it, Ho 13:2; and therefore his prosperity was very short lived, which is signified by various metaphors, Ho 13:3; and his sins are aggravated by the former goodness of God unto him his great ingratitude unto God, and forgetfulness him, Ho 13:4-6; hence he is threatened with his wrath and vengeance in a very severe manner, Ho 13:7,8; for which he had none to blame but himself; yea, such was the grace and goodness of God to him, that though he had destroyed himself, yet there were help and salvation for him in him, Ho 13:9; though not in his king he had desired, and was given, and was took away in wrath, Ho 13:10,11; but his sin being bound up and hid, and he foolish and unwise, sharp corrections would be given him, Ho 13:12,13; and yet a gracious promise is made of redemption from death and the grave by the Messiah, Ho 13:14; but, notwithstanding this, and all his present prosperity, he would be blasted in his wealth and riches; and Samaria the metropolis of his country would he desolate; and the inhabitants of it be used in the most cruel manner, because of their rebellion against God, Ho 13:15,16.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 25

  • 1. Hosea 6:4
  • 2. Psalms 1:4; Isaiah 17:13; Daniel 2:35
  • 3. Psalms 68:2
  • 4. Hosea 12:9
  • 5. Exodus 20:3; 2 Kings 18:35
  • 6. Isaiah 43:11; Isaiah 45:21, 22
  • 7. Deuteronomy 2:7; Deuteronomy 32:10
  • 8. Deuteronomy 8:15
  • 9. Deuteronomy 8:12, 14; Deuteronomy 32:13-15; Jeremiah 5:7
  • 10. Hosea 7:14
  • 11. Hosea 2:13; Hosea 4:6; Hosea 8:14
  • 12. Lamentations 3:10; Hosea 5:14
  • 13. Jeremiah 5:6
  • 14. 2 Samuel 17:8
  • 15. Psalms 50:22
  • 16. Jeremiah 2:17, 19; Malachi 1:12, 13
  • 17. Deuteronomy 33:26, 29
  • 18. 2 Kings 17:4; Hosea 8:4
  • 19. 1 Samuel 8:5, 6
  • 20. 1 Samuel 8:7; 1 Samuel 10:17-24
  • 21. 1 Samuel 15:26; 1 Kings 14:7-10; Hosea 10:7
  • 22. Deuteronomy 32:34, 35; Job 14:17; Romans 2:5
  • 23. Isaiah 13:8; Micah 4:9, 10
  • 24. Deuteronomy 32:6; Hosea 5:4
  • 25. Isaiah 37:3; Isaiah 66:9

Footnotes 8

  • [a]. Lit "goes away early"
  • [b]. Lit "window"
  • [c]. Or "knew"
  • [d]. Or "watch"
  • [e]. Lit "the enclosure of their heart"
  • [f]. Or "But in Me is your help"
  • [g]. Lit "said"
  • [h]. Lit "it is the time that he should not tarry at the breaking forth of children"
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