Hosea 11:4

With human cords I ever drew them forward, with leading-strings of love: and I was to them as those that lift off the yoke from their jaws, and I held out unto them food.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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 unto them.

In Context

3Yet I myself appointed a leader for Ephraim, who took them up in his arms; but they would not acknowledge that I healed them.

5He should not return unto the land of Egypt: yet [now] is the Assyrian his king; because they refused to repent.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:32And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, One omer-full of it is to be kept for your generations; in order that they may see the bread which I gave you to eat in the wilderness, when I brought you forth out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 32:12So did the Lord alone lead him, and there was not with him a stranger god.

2 Samuel 7:14I too will be to him as a father, and he shall indeed be to me as a son: so that when he committeth iniquity, I will chastise him with the rod of men, and with the plagues of the children of man;

Psalms 105:40The people asked, and he brought quails, and with heavenly bread he satisfied them.

Isaiah 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and he carried them all the days of old.

Jeremiah 31:3(31:2) “From afar is the Lord appeared unto me,” [saying,] Yea, with an everlasting love have I loved thee; therefore have I guided thee with loving-kindness.

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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