Hosea 13:10

You have a king; ◄why is he unable to save you?/but he is unable to save you.► [RHQ] You have [RHQ] rulers in all your towns, but they are not helping you, either. Your ancestors said, ‘Appoint for us a king and other leaders to rule over us like the other nations have!’

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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?

In Context

9You people of Israel, you will be destroyed because you oppose me, the only one who ◄can help/helps► you.

11I was angry with them for requesting that, but I appointed a king to rule over them. But later I became very angry with them again, so I took their king away.

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Cross References

Judges 2:16Then Yahweh gave leaders to them. These leaders rescued the Israelis from the people who were raiding them.

1 Samuel 8:7Yahweh replied, “Do what they have requested you to do. But ◄ do not think/the truth is not► that you are the one whom they are really rejecting. I have been their king, and I am the one they are really rejecting.

1 Samuel 12:11So Yahweh sent men such as Gideon, Barak, Jephthah, and me to save you. And as a result, you did not have to worry about any enemies attacking you.

2 Kings 17:4But several years later, Hoshea secretly planned to rebel against the rulers of Assyria. He sent messengers to So/Osorkon, the king of Egypt, asking if his army could help the Israelis fight against the army of Assyria. Hoshea also stopped paying the tribute/taxes that he had been paying to Assyria every year. But the king of Assyria found out about those things, so he told his officers to put Hoshea in prison.

Psalms 44:4You are my King and my God; it is you who enable us, your people [MTY], to defeat our enemies.

Psalms 74:12God, you have been our king all the time since we came out of Egypt [HYP], and you have enabled us to defeat our enemies in the land of Israel.

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 →

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