Hosea 12:13

‘And by a prophet YHWH brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he shepherded.'

The close connection of this verse with Hosea 12:12 demonstrates that Hosea intended the two descriptions to be seen as connected in their significance, confirming what we have said in Hosea 12:11. But as Jacob was not brought back to the land ‘by a prophet' the illustration had to be altered so that another shepherd, a prophet, could be introduced, in order to bring out the fact that Israel's movements were now to be ‘determined' by prophets. Thus Israel's deliverance from Egypt and preservation until they reached the land (from which Jacob had fled) was described as brought about by YHWH through a shepherd and prophet, an indication that that was also the way in which Israel's present and future situations would similarly be affected.

As observed a main connection between the two verses is that just as Jacob was a shepherd (shamar), so would Moses shepherd (shamar) God's sheep as he had shepherded sheep in Midian.