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Hosea 13:11

I gave thee a king in Mine anger, the expression referring, in general, to the kings of Israel, and took him away in My wrath, the constant change of kings being a decided misfortune to the country, while the end of the kingdom was now in sight.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 13:11. _I GAVE THEE A KING IN MINE ANGER_] Such was _Saul_; for they highly offended God when they clamored to have a king like the heathen nations that were around them. _TOOK_ HIM _AWA...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I GAVE THEE A KING IN MINE ANGER - o: “God, when He is asked for ought amiss, sheweth displeasure, when He giveth, hath mercy, when He giveth not.” “The devil was heard,” (in asking to enter into the...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 13 EPHRAIM'S RUIN AND JUDGMENT _ 1. Ruin and judgment (Hosea 13:1) _ 2. It is thy destruction, O Israel! (Hosea 13:9) 3. Mercy to follow wrath (Hosea 13:12) 4. The desolation of the nearin...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    HOSEA 13:1 (= Heb. Hosea 13:1 to Hosea 14:1). FACILIS DESCENSUS AVERNO. Israel has persistently lapsed into the Baal-worship and idolatry, and therefore shall be swept away as the chaff ...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    I GAVE THEE, &C. Reference to 1 Samuel 8:7. 1Sa 10:19. 1 Samuel 15:22; 1 Samuel 15:23; 1 Samuel 16:1. Compare...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    An alternation of cries expressive of the contending thoughts and emotions of the tender-hearted but truthful prophet. The punishment is inevitable; yea, it is begun. Yet if Israel would only repent!...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _I gave thee_, &c. Rather, I GIVE THEE KINGS [lit., a king] IN MINE ANGER, AND TAKE (THEM) AWAY IN MY WRATH. The reference is to the elevation of Jeroboam I., but also to the various dynasties which f...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _ISRAEL DESTROYED HERSELF -- HOSEA 13:9-12:_ Suicide is a horrible thing. What Israel had done spiritually was nothing short of nation spiritual suicide. They had turned from God to idolatry and destr...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I GAVE THEE A KING— _I will give thee a king in mine anger, and will take him away,_ &c. We retain the future, because this may be considered as an answer to the demand just made, _Give me a king,_ &c...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    REQUITINGISRAEL WILL PERISH TEXT: Hosea 13:9-16 9 It is thy destruction, O Israel, that thou art against me, against thy help. 10 Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities? a...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath. I GAVE THEE A KING IN MINE ANGER, AND TOOK HIM AWAY IN MY WRATH - true both of Saul (; ) and of Jeroboam's line (;...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL'S IDOLATRY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES The main thought of this c., which is a continuation of the last (cp. Hosea 12:9; Hosea 13:4), is the folly of Israel incurring the enmity of God, who had shown...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1.. ANGER] This has often been referred to Saul, but the Hebrew tenses suggest repeated action, and the allusion may, therefore, be to the frequent changes of dynasty in the northern kingdom....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 13 FINAL *JUDGEMENT ON ISRAEL V1 *Ephraim made himself very important in Israel. *Ephraim spoke and people shook with fear....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    GAVE... TOOK. — The past tenses should be present: “I give...” “take away.” The whole succession of Israelite kings, who generation after generation had been taken away, some by violent death, would c...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֶֽתֶּן ־לְךָ֥ מֶ֨לֶךְ֙ בְּ אַפִּ֔י וְ אֶקַּ֖

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE FINAL ARGUMENT Hosea 12:1 - Hosea 14:1 THE impassioned call with which the last chapter closed was by no means an assurance of salvation: "How am I to give thee, up, Ephraim? how am I to let thee...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    TO OPPOSE GOD IS DESTRUCTION Hosea 13:1-14 Again, a very tender chapter. The lips that speak with trembling betray the heart that God can exalt. But when we turn to Baal, the emblem of self-confiden...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In the second movement Jehovah set the present sin in the light of His present love. The sin of Ephraim and the sin of Judah, if the marginal reading be adopted, are both declared. The sin of Ephraim...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Turning from this main line of the divine message, we now examine the prophet's interpolations. These set forth the history of Israel indicating their relation to Jehovah, and pronounce judgment. They...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _King; Saul, Jeroboam, or the Assyrian. --- Away. Osee, (Calmet) so that you shall have no more kings of Israel. (Haydock) --- Septuagint alone have, "I took (Calmet) or had him in," &c. (St. Jerome)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    All that is here said may be considered as the natural effect of sin, which self-destroyers bring upon themselves. Here is an allusion perhaps to Israel's history, in the case of Saul, king of Israel,...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    These are _the princes, of whom thou hast said, Give me a king and princes. I gave to thee in my wrath, and took away in my fury; _that is “It was a cursed beginning, and it shall be a cursed end; for...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 13 is the perpetual conflict of the affections and the judgment of God. The thought of their sin calls forth the announcement of the necessary and inevitable judgment. As soon as the judgment...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I GAVE THEE A KING IN MINE ANGER,.... Not the king of Assyria, sent to waste and destroy them, and carry them captive, as some, for of him the next clause cannot be said; nor Jeroboam, the first king...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took [him] away in my wrath. Ver. 11. _I gave thee a king in mine anger_] As once before he gave them quails to choke them. A king, that is, all those kings they...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I will be thy king_ I would have been thy king to save and govern thee, but thou refusedst me in both respects: yet I will be thy king to judge me and punish thee. The LXX. and all the ancient versio...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-16 Israel had destroyed himself by his rebellion; but he could not save himself, his help was from the Lord only. This may well be applied to the case of spiritual redemption, from that lost state...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I GAVE THEE A KING IN MINE ANGER; such as Shallum, Menahem, Pekah, &c.; but in displeasure against you. I TOOK HIM AWAY; the Hebrew says not what; I think, their kings mentioned. IN MY WRATH: God was...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 13:11 gave H5414 (H8799) king H4428 anger H639 took H3947 (H8799) wrath H5678...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘I have given you a king in my anger, And have taken him away in my wrath.' For the truth was that their king had been given to them by a God angry at their ways, and now in His wrath He had taken hi...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    BECAUSE EPHRAIM HAVE OFFENDED SO DEEPLY, AND HAVE REJECTED THEIR DELIVERER, JUDGMENT UPON THEM IS INEVITABLE (HOSEA 13:1). The crimes of Israel are again laid bear. They are guilty of idolatry (Hosea...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Hosea 13:11 The Israelites seem to have asked for a king from an unthankful caprice and waywardness. To punish them, God gave them a king after their own heart, Saul, the son of Kish, a Benjamite; of...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Hosea 13:1. _When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel;_ When we are little in our own esteem, when we are full of fears concerning ourselves, when we dare not think of boasting, the...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Israel's ruin. Ultimate blessing in the kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Worldly prosperity, which feeds men's pride, makes them forgetful of God, a...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Hosea 13:2. _Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves._ The readings vary here. The LXX, “You must sacrifice men, for there are no more calves.” The Vulgate Latin reads, “Sacrifice the men that wors...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I gave thee a king in Mine anger, and took him away in My wrath._ SAUL The Israelites seem to have asked for a king from an unthankful caprice and waywardness. The ill conduct of Samuel’s sons was t...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 13:9 Ephraim, by its stubborn refusal to return to the Lord, rejects the only hope that God offers. Three figures of judgment are pronounced in these verses: the incompetent king ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] HOSEA 13:10. WHERE] thy king to save when Assyrians attack cities? Where thy judges who surround the king and help to administer right? God gave and God punished them through a king....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION The first eight verses of this chapter form the premises from which the prophet, in the ninth verse, draws the conclusion that the conduct of Israel had been suicidal; that they had brought...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now when Ephraim was speaking trembling (Hsa Hosea 13:1), That is, when Ephraim was not proud and exalted, but recognized their own weakness and all, then the LORD exalted himself in Israel; but whe...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 12:15; 1 Kings 12:16; 1 Kings 12:26; 1 Kings 14:7;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    A king — Such as Shallum, Menahem, Pekah....

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