Hosea 13:4

Hosea 13:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)“But I have been the Lord your God ever since you came out of Egypt. You shall acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me.
• English Standard Version (ESV)But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Yet I am the Lord your God Ever since the land of Egypt, And you shall know no God but Me; For there is no savior besides Me.

Context of Hosea 13:4

2Now the Israelites continue to do more and more sins. They use metal to make idols for themselves. They use clever skills to make idols from silver. All their idols are only things that people have made themselves. People offer sacrifices to the image of a calf. They say, ‘Kiss the calf!’ 3So those people will soon disappear! They will quickly disappear like mist or dew in the morning. They will be like chaff that the wind blows away from a threshing floor. They will be like smoke that disappears out of an open window. The Lord says, ‘I am the Lord your God. I brought you out from Egypt. You must not serve any other God. No one else can save you except me. 5I took care of you in the wilderness, where it was very hot and dry. 6I gave food to my people, so that they were not hungry. But when they had enough to eat, they became proud. As a result, they forgot about me.

Hosea 13:4 word by word

וְאָנֹכִ֛י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם וֵאלֹהִ֤ים זֽוּלָתִי֙ לֹ֣א תֵדָ֔ע וּמוֹשִׁ֥יעַ אַ֖יִן בִּלְתִּֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• thy Godאֱלֹהִים'ĕlôhîym · GodH430
• from the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• of Egyptמִצְרַ֫יִםmitsrayim · EgyptH4714
• and thou shalt knowיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• but meזוּלָהzûlâh · exceptionH2108
• no saviourיָשַׁעyâsha‛ · to saveH3467
• beside meבִּלְתִּיbiltîy · lestH1115

Cross-references for Hosea 13:4

• Hosea 12:9God says, ‘Remember that I am the Lord your God! I brought you out of Egypt, where you were slaves. Now I will make you live in tents again, as you did before, in the wilderness.
• Exodus 20:2‘I am the Lord your God. I brought you out of Egypt, the country where you were slaves.
• Psalms 81:9There must not be any strange god among you. You must never worship a foreign god.
• Isaiah 43:3I am the Lord, your God, so I will rescue you. I am Israel's Holy God, your Saviour. I gave Egypt as the price to buy you back. I gave Ethiopia and Seba to their enemies, so that you could be free.
• Isaiah 44:6The Lord is Israel's King and Redeemer. He is the Lord Almighty. He says, ‘I am the first and I am the last. There is no God, except me.
• Isaiah 43:11I am the Lord, I alone. There is no other saviour, except me.
• Isaiah 45:21Now decide together what you will say in court! Tell me what you think! Who said a long time ago what would happen? Who spoke about it long before it happened? It was I, the Lord! There is nobody else like me. There is no other God, except me. I am a righteous God and I save my people. There is no other God.
• Acts 4:12Then Peter said, ‘Only Jesus can save people. There has never been another person in the world that could do this. God has not given any other man the authority to save us.’

Commentaries on Hosea 13:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4I am the Lord thy God - This was the first discovery I made of myself to you, and the first commandment I gave; and I showed you that besides me there was no Savior. There is a remarkable addition in the Septuagint here: "But I am Jehovah thy God, who stretched out the heavens and created the earth. And I showed them not to thee, that thou shouldest walk after them. And I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt," etc. This might have been once in the…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Yet - , (literally, and) I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt God was still the same God who had sheltered them with His providence, ever since He had delivered them from Egypt. He had the same power and will to help them. Therefore their duty was the same, and their destruction arose, not from any change in Him, but from themselves. “God is the God of the ungodly, by creation and general providence.” And thou shalt - (i. e., oughtest to) know no…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-5there is no Savior: The Lord proved this to Israel during the exodus and their time in the wilderness.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. (Ho 12:9; Is 43:11). no saviour--temporal as well as spiritual. besides me--(Is 45:21).Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 13:4

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• Idolatry

In the dictionaries

• Egypt
• God
• Egypt, Egyptian
• god, false god, goddess, idol, idolater, idolatrous, idolatry
• Ransom
• Calf, Golden
• Hosea
• Zechariah, Book of
• I am Yahweh

Commentaries on Hosea 13

• 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