Hosea 13:10
Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
9You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me—against your helper.
11So in My anger I gave you a king, and in My wrath I took him away.
Cross References
Judges 2:16Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them.
1 Samuel 8:7And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.
1 Samuel 12:11So the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hands of your enemies on every side, and you dwelt securely.
2 Kings 17:4But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested Hoshea and put him in prison.
Psalms 44:4You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
Psalms 74:12Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 13:10-16
The Folly of Israel; Promises of Mercy. ( b. c. 722.) 9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. 10 I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? 11 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath. 12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid. 13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the… Read the whole commentary →