Hosea 11:3

Hosea 11:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
• New International Version (NIV)It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms; but they did not realize it was I who healed them.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“I taught Ephraim to walk, Taking them by their arms; But they did not know that I healed them.

Context of Hosea 11:3

1When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son. 2But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images. It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them. 4I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them. 5Will they not return to the land of Egypt and be ruled by Assyria because they refused to repent?

Hosea 11:3 word by word

וְאָנֹכִ֤י תִרְגַּ֙לְתִּי֙ לְאֶפְרַ֔יִם קָחָ֖ם עַל־זְרֽוֹעֹתָ֑יו וְלֹ֥א יָדְע֖וּ כִּ֥י רְפָאתִֽים׃Read the interlinear

• It was Iאָֽנֹכִ֫י'ânôkîy · IH595
• who taught Ephraimאֶפְרַ֫יִם'ephrayim · EphraimH669
• to walkתִּרְגַּלtirgal · to teachH8637
• taking themלָקַחlâqach · to take: takeH3947
• byעַל‛al · uponH5921
• the armsזְרוֹעַzerôa‛ zerôa‛ zerô‛âh zerô‛âh · armH2220
• but they neverלֹאlô' lô' lôh · notH3808
• realizedיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• that it was Iכִּיkîy · forH3588
• who healed themרָפָאrâphâ' râphâh · to healH7495

Cross-references for Hosea 11:3

• Exodus 19:4‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.
• Numbers 11:11So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people?
• Deuteronomy 1:31and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”
• Deuteronomy 8:2Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
• Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
• Isaiah 46:3“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.
• Isaiah 63:9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
• Acts 13:18He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.
• Hosea 2:8For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold— which they crafted for Baal.
• Hosea 7:1When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets.
• Hosea 14:4I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
• Exodus 15:26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
• Exodus 23:25So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.
• Isaiah 1:2Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.
• Isaiah 30:26The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.
• Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

Commentaries on Hosea 11:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3I taught Ephraim also to go - An allusion to a mother or nurse teaching a child to walk, directing it how to lift and lay its feet, and supporting it in the meantime by the arms, that it may use its feet with the greater ease. This is a passage truly pathetic.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3I taught Ephraim also to go - Literally, “and I set Ephraim on his feet;” i. e., while they were rebelling, I was helping and supporting them, as a nurse doth her child, teaching it to go with little steps, step by step, “accustoming it to go by little and little without weariness;” and not only so, but “taking them by their arms;” or it may be equally translated, “He took them in His arms,” i. e., God not only gently “taught” them “to walk,” but when…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-4God cared for the young nation of Israel with kindness and love.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. taught ... to go--literally, "to use his feet." Compare a similar image, De 1:31; 8:2, 5, 15; 32:10, 11; Ne 9:21; Is 63:9; Am 2:10. God bore them as a parent does an infant, unable to supply itself, so that it has no anxiety about food, raiment, and its going forth. Ac 13:18, which probably refers to this passage of Hosea; He took them by the arms, to guide them that they might not stray, and to hold them up that they might not stumble. knew not that I…Read the comment

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In the dictionaries

• Ephraim
• Ephraim, Ephraimite
• Cord
• Repenting
• Deuteronomy
• Father
• Go
• Hosea
• Zechariah, Book of

Commentaries on Hosea 11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings