God’s Word Translation
Hosea 12:13
13The Lord used a prophet to bring the people of Israel out of Egypt. He used a prophet to take care of them.
Hosea 12:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
- New International Version (NIV)The Lord used a prophet to bring Israel up from Egypt, by a prophet he cared for him.
- English Standard Version (ESV)By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was guarded.
- New King James Version (NKJV)By a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, And by a prophet he was preserved.
Context of Hosea 12:13
11The people of Gilead are evil. They are worthless. They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal. But their altars will become like piles of rubble beside a plowed field. 12Jacob fled to the country of Syria. Israel worked to get a wife; he took care of sheep to pay for her. The Lord used a prophet to bring the people of Israel out of Egypt. He used a prophet to take care of them. 14The people of Ephraim made the Lord bitter. He will hold them guilty of murder. The Lord will pay them back for their insults.
Read all of Hosea 12Hosea 12:13 word by word
וּבְנָבִ֕יא הֶעֱלָ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם וּבְנָבִ֖יא נִשְׁמָֽר׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Hosea 12:13
- Hosea 13:4“I am the Lord your God. I brought you out of Egypt. You have known no god besides me. There is no savior except me.
- Exodus 12:50All the Israelites did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
- Exodus 13:3Then Moses said to the people, “Remember this day—the day when you left Egypt, the land of slavery. The Lord used his mighty hand to bring you out of there. Don’t eat anything made with yeast.
- 1 Samuel 12:8When your ancestors went with Jacob to Egypt ⌞and were oppressed⌟, they cried out to the Lord, who sent Moses and Aaron to bring them out of Egypt. The Lord settled them in this place.
- Psalms 77:20Like a shepherd, you led your people. You had Moses and Aaron take them by the hand.
- Isaiah 63:11Then his people remembered Moses and the distant past. Where is the one who brought them out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is the one who put his Holy Spirit in them?
- Amos 2:11I also sent you prophets from among your children and Nazirites from among your youths. Isn’t that so, people of Israel? The Lord has declared this.
- Micah 6:4I brought you out of Egypt and freed you from slavery. I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to lead you.
- Acts 3:22“Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will send you a prophet, an Israelite like me. Listen to everything he tells you.
- Acts 7:35“This is the Moses whom the Israelites rejected by saying, ‘Who made you our ruler and judge?’ This is the one God sent to free them and to rule them with the help of the Messenger who appeared to him in the bush.
Commentaries on Hosea 12:13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13By a prophet (Moses) the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet (Joshua) was he preserved - Joshua succeeded Moses, and brought the Israelites into the promised land; and when they passed the Jordan at Gilgal, he received the covenant of circumcision; and yet this same place was now made by them the seat of idolatry! How blind and how ungrateful!Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13By a prophet was he preserved - Or “kept.” Jacob “kept sheep” out of love of God, sooner than unite himself with one, alien from God; his posterity “was kept” like a sheep by God, as the Psalmist said, “He led His people like sheep by the hand of Moses and Aaron” Psalm 77:20. They were “kept” from all evil and want and danger, by the direct power of God; “kept” from all the might of Pharaoh in Egypt and the Red Sea, “not through any power of their own…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-14Verses 7-14 Ephraim became a merchant: the word also signifies a Canaanite. They carried on trade upon Canaanitish principles, covetously and with fraud and deceit. Thus they became rich, and falsely supposed that Providence favoured them. But shameful sins shall have shameful punishments. Let them remember, not only what a mighty prince Jacob was with God, but what a servant he was to Laban. The benefits we have had from the word of God, make our sin and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13by a prophet: Moses obeyed God faithfully, which contrasts with Israel's disobedience.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. by a prophet--Moses (Nu 12:6-8; De 18:15, 18). preserved--Translate, "kept"; there is an allusion to the same Hebrew word in Ho 12:12, "kept sheep"; Israel was kept by God as His flock, even as Jacob kept sheep (Psa 80:1; Is 63:11).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Hosea 12
- 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
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