Hosea 12:13

Many years later, Yahweh enabled a prophet to bring the ancestors of you people of Israel here from Egypt; that prophet, Moses, took care of them.

Translation for Translators

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

12Your ancestor Jacob fled from his brother Esau and went to northwest Mesopotamia. He worked for his uncle Laban for many years to get a wife; he took care of his uncle’s sheep to pay for her.

14But now the people of Israel have caused Yahweh to become very angry; Yahweh says that they deserve to die because they caused many others to die [MTY]; he will pay them back for the sins that they have committed against him and for insulting him.

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Cross References

Genesis 28:2Instead, go right away to Paddan-Aram in northwest Mesopotamia, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Ask one of the daughters of your mother’s brother Laban to marry you.

Exodus 12:50All the Israeli people obeyed Aaron and Moses/me and did what Yahweh had commanded.

Deuteronomy 26:5Then in Yahweh’s presence you must say this: ‘My ancestor Jacob was a man from Aram/Syria who was continually wandering from one place to another. He took his family to Egypt. They were a small group when they went there, but they lived there and their descendants became a very large/populous [DOU] and powerful nation.

Psalms 77:20You led your people like a shepherd leads his flock of sheep, while Moses and Aaron were the leaders of your people.

Hosea 13:4But Yahweh says to his people, “I am Yahweh, your God, the one who brought your ancestors out of Egypt. You must believe that only I am God and that there is no other God, and that there is no one else who can save you!

Micah 6:4I did great things for your ancestors; I brought them out of Egypt; I rescued them from that land where they were slaves. I sent Moses to lead them, and his older brother Aaron and his older sister 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 →

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