Hosea 13:4

But 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!

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.

In Context

3Therefore, those people will disappear quickly like [SIM] the morning mist or the dew that lies on the ground early in the morning; they will disappear like [SIM] chaff that is blown away from where the wheat is threshed, like [SIM] smoke that goes out of a chimney.

5I took care of your ancestors when they were in the desert, where it was extremely hot and dry.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:2“I am Yahweh God, the one you worship. I am the one who brought you out of Egypt. I am the one who freed you from being slaves there.

Isaiah 43:3because I am Yahweh, your God, the Holy One of Israel, the one who rescues you. I will enable the army of the emperor of Persia to conquer Egypt instead of conquering you; similarly I will enable them to conquer Ethiopia, and Seba in Arabia, in order that you can be saved.

Isaiah 43:11I, only I, am Yahweh, and there is no other one who can save you.

Isaiah 45:21Talk among yourselves, and decide what you will say to prove that your praying to idols is good. And when you do that, I will ask you, ‘Who predicted long ago what has now happened? Did any idol tell you that those things would happen [RHQ]?’ No, it was [RHQ] only I, Yahweh, who told you, because I am the only God; there is no other God. I am a God who acts righteously and saves people; there is no other one who does these things.

Hosea 12:10Many times I spoke to the prophets, and I gave them many visions, and I gave them parables to tell to the people.”

Acts 4:12So he alone can save us [MTY]. God has sent only one person [MTY] into the world who can save us from the guilt of our sins, and that person is Jesus!”

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 →

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