Hosea 13:5

I knew you in the wilderness, 1 in the land of great dryness. 1

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I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

In Context

4But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt. 1 You must acknowledge no God but me; 1 you must acknowledge that besides me, there is no other savior. 1

6When you had pasture, then you became full; 1 and when you were filled, your heart became lifted up. 1 For that reason you forgot me. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 2:7For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through this great wilderness. For these forty years Yahweh your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.”'

Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, 1 and in the barren and howling wilderness; 1 he shielded him and cared for him, 1 he guarded him as the apple of his eye. 1

Psalms 31:7I will be glad and rejoice in your covenant faithfulness, 1 for you saw my affliction; 1 you knew the distress of my soul. 1

Psalms 142:3When my spirit is weak within me, 1 you know my path. 1 In the way that I walk 1 they have hidden a trap for me. 1

Jeremiah 2:6They did not say, 'Where is Yahweh, who brought us up from the land of Egypt? 1 Where is Yahweh, who led us to the wilderness, into the land of the Arabah and pits, 1 in a land of drought and deep darkness, 1 a land through which no one passes and where no one lives?' 1

Hosea 9:10Yahweh says, “When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. 1 Like the very first fruit of the season on the fig tree, I found your fathers. 1 But they went to Baal Peor, 1 and they devoted themselves to that shameful idol. 1 They became as detestable as the idol 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 →

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