Hosea 13:4
"Yet I am the Lord your God [that establishes the heaven, and creates the earth, whose hands have framed the whole host of heaven. But I did not show them to you that you should go after them, but I brought you up] from the land of Egypt;and you shall acknowledge no god but me,and besides me there is no savior.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
5I knew you in the wilderness,in the land of great drought.
Cross References
Exodus 20:2"I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Isaiah 43:3For I am the Lord your God,the Holy One of Israel,your Savior.I have given Egypt as your ransom,Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
Isaiah 43:11I myself am the Lord;and besides me there is no savior.
Isaiah 45:21Declare and bring it forth.Yes, let them take counsel together: who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven't I, the Lord? and there is no God else besides me, a just God and a Savior; there is no one besides me.
Hosea 12:10I have also spoken to the prophets,and I have multiplied visions;and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
Acts 4:12And there is salvation in none other, for there is no other name under heaven, that is given among men by which we must be saved!"
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 →