Hosea 11:3

Yet it was I who taught Ephrayim to walk, 1 taking them by their zero'ot; 1 but they knew not 1 that it was I who healed them. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

2The more I called them, 1 the more they went from Me; 1 they sacrificed unto Ba'alim, 1 and burned incense to peselim (graven images). 1

4I drew them with cords of man, 1 with bands of ahavah; 1 and I was to them 1 as they that ease the ol (yoke) on their jaws, 1 and I bent down to feed them. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 19:4You yourselves have seen what I did unto the Mitzrayim, and how I carried you on eaglesʼ wings, and brought you unto Myself.

Numbers 11:11And Moshe said unto Hashem, Why hast Thou afflicted Thy eved? And why have I not found chen (favor) in Thy sight, that Thou layest the massa (burden) of all this people upon me?

Deuteronomy 8:2And thou shalt remember kol haderech which Hashem Eloheicha led thee these arba'im shanah in the midbar, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine lev, whether thou wouldest be shomer over His mitzvot, or no.

Deuteronomy 33:27Elohei Kedem is thy me'onah (dwelling place), 1 and underneath are the Zero'ot Olam (Everlasting Arms): 1 and He shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; 1 and shall say, Make them shmad. 1

Isaiah 30:26Moreover the ohr of the levanah (moon) shall be as the ohr of the chamah (sun), and the ohr of the chamah shall be sevenfold, as the ohr of shivat hayamim (seven days), in the day that Hashem bindeth up the hurt of His people, and healeth the stroke of His wound. 1

Isaiah 63:9In all their tzoros He was afflicted, 1 and the malach of His presence saved them; 1 in His ahavah and in His mercy 1 He redeemed them; 1 and He lifted them up, 1 and carried them kol y'mei olam. 1

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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