Hosea 11:3

And I was like a foster father to Ephraim, I carried them in my arms: and they knew not that I healed them.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

In Context

2As they called them, they went away from before their face: they offered victims to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols.

4I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bands of love : and I will be to them as one that taketh off the yoke on their jaws: and I put his meat to him that he might eat.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:4You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, how I have carried you upon the wings of eagles, and have taken you to myself.

Numbers 11:11And he said to the Lord: Why hast thou afflicted thy servant? wherefore do I not find favour before thee? and why hast thou laid the weight of all this people upon me ?

Deuteronomy 8:2And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God hath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee and to prove thee, and that the things that were in thy heart might be made known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no.

Deuteronomy 33:27His dwelling is above, and underneath are the everlasting arms: he shall cast out the enemy from before thee, and shall say: Be thou brought to nought.

Isaiah 30:26And the light of the moon shall be se the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days: in the day when the Lord shall bind up the wound of his people, and shall heal the stroke of their wound.

Isaiah 63:9In all their affliction he was not troubled, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love, and in his mercy he redeemed them, and he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 11:2-8

God's Goodness to Israel; The Ingratitude of Israel; God's Displeasure with Israel. ( b. c. 730.) 1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. 2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. 3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. 4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat… Read the whole commentary →

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