Hosea 12:13
And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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
Cross References
Genesis 28:2Rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel the father of thy mother, and take to thyself thence a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.
Exodus 12:50And the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron for them, so they did.
Deuteronomy 26:5and he shall answer and say before the Lord thy God, My father abandoned Syria, and went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a small number, and became there a mighty nation and a great multitude.
Psalms 77:20Forasmuch as he smote the rock, and the waters flowed, 1 And the torrents ran abundantly; 1 Will he be able also to give bread, 1 Or prepare a table for his people? 1
Hosea 13:4But I am the Lord thy God that establishes the heaven, and creates the earth, whose hands have framed the whole host of heaven: but I showed them not to thee that thou shouldest go after them: and I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God but me; and there is no Savior beside me.
Micah 6:4For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, and sent before thee 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 →