Hosea 12:13

And by a prophet Jehovah brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

Darby Translation

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

12And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].

14Ephraim provoked [him] to anger most bitterly; and his Lord shall leave his blood upon him, and recompense unto him his reproach.

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Cross References

Genesis 28:2Arise, go to Padan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father, and take a wife thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

Exodus 12:50And all the children of Israel did as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron; so did they.

Deuteronomy 26:5And thou shalt speak and say before Jehovah thy God, A perishing Aramean was my father, and he went down to Egypt with a few, and sojourned there, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

Psalms 77:20Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Hosea 13:4Yet I [am] Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou hast known no God but me; and there is no saviour besides me.

Micah 6:4For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage; and I sent before thee Moses, 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 →

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