Hosea 12:13
Yet by a prophet the Lord led Israel out of Egypt, and he was served by a prophet.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
In Context
12Jacob fled into the region of Syria, and Israel served like a wife, and was served by a wife.
Cross References
Genesis 28:2But go, and journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and there accept for yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your maternal uncle.
Exodus 12:50And all the sons of Israel did just as the Lord had instructed Moses and Aaron.
Deuteronomy 26:5And you shall say, in the sight of the Lord your God: ‘The Syrian pursued my father, who descended into Egypt, and he sojourned there in a very small number, and he increased into a great and strong nation and into an innumerable multitude.
Psalms 77:20He struck the rock, and so waters flowed and the torrents flooded, but would even he be able to provide bread, or provide a table, for his people?”
Hosea 13:4But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt, and you will not know God apart from me, and there is no Savior except me.
Micah 6:4For I led you out of the land of Egypt, and I freed you from the house of servitude, and I sent before your face Moses, and Aaron, and Miriam.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 12:8-14
Reproof for Sin; Judgment Threatened; Memorials of Divine Mercy. ( b. c. 723.) 7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin. 9 And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast. 10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used… Read the whole commentary →