Hosea 13:5
I did know thee in the midbar, 1 in the eretz taluvot (land of burning heat). 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 2:7For Hashem Eloheicha hath bestowed a brocha on thee in all the works of thy hand; He knoweth thy walking through this midbar hagadol (great wilderness); these arba'im shanim Hashem Eloheicha hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in an eretz midbar, 1 and in a barren and howling wilderness; 1 He encircled him, He granted him discernment, 1 He preserved him as the pupil of His eye. 1
Psalms 31:7I hate them that are the shomrim of lying vanities; + 31:7 i.e., idols 1 but I trust in Hashem. 1
Psalms 142:3I poured out my complaint before Him; 1 I showed before Him my tzoros. 1
Jeremiah 2:6Neither did they ask: Where is Hashem 1 that brought us up out of Eretz Mitzrayim, 1 that led us through the midbar, 1 through an eretz of deserts and pits, 1 through an eretz tziyyah (land of drought) and tzalmavet, 1 through eretz that no ish passed through, 1 where no adam dwelt? 1
Hosea 9:10I found Yisroel like grapes in the midbar; 1 I saw your avot as the bikkurah 1 in the fig tree at her first season; 1 but they went to Ba'al-Pe'or, 1 and separated themselves unto that shame; 1 and their abominations were according as they loved. 1
Matthew Henry on Hosea 13:2-5
Reproofs and Threatenings. ( b. c. 722.) 1 When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died. 2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the… Read the whole commentary →