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Verse Hosea 12:12. _SERVED FOR A WIFE_] Seven years for _Rachel_.
_FOR A WIFE HE KEPT_ SHEEP.] Seven years for _Leah_; having been
cheated by Laban, who gave him first _Leah_, instead of _Rachel_; a...
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AND JACOB FLED INTO THE COUNTRY OF SYRIA - Jacob chose poverty and
servitude rather than marry an idotatress of Canaan. He knew not from
where, except from God’s bounty and providence, he should have...
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CHAPTER S 11:12-12:14 THE INDICTMENT
_ 1. Ephraim's indictment (Hosea 11:12; Hosea 12:1) _
2. Remembrance of the past (Hosea 12:3)
3. What Israel had become ...
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HOSEA 11:12 TO HOSEA 12:14 (= Hebrews 12:1). EPHRAIM'S INFIDELITY
TRACED FROM THE BEGINNING. This is one of the most difficult passages
in Hosea. In the text Judah also is mentioned; but this may be d...
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FLED... SYRIA. Ref to Pentateuch (Genesis 28:5.Deuteronomy 26:5;
Deuteronomy 26:5). App-92.
SYRIA. Reference to Pentateuch ...
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Not Israel, but Canaan should he be called; for his ideal is Canaan's.
The end justifies the means, and his end is to become rich! But how
bitterly will he be disappointed. He must in short begin his...
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As Ewald remarks, -this is probably the oldest instance of a
spiritualizing of the ancient history, though the way to it had been
long prepared by the conception, so familiar to Hosea himself (chaps,...
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_fled into the country of Syria_ Comp. Genesis 27:43; Genesis 28:2.
Hosea's phrase, THE FIELD OF ARAM, is the exact equivalent of
-Padan-Aram" (rather Paddan-Aram) in the latter passage; the Assyrian...
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_ISRAEL PROVOKED GOD TO ANGER -- HOSEA 12:11-14:_ Gilead was a large
area in Palestine known for producing many healing items but they had
become terribly sinful. Now they will end up in ruin. Bulls w...
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AND FOR A WIFE HE KEPT SHEEP— _And for a wife was he detained._
Houbigant....
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REQUITINGEPHRAIM HAS PROVOKED
TEXT: Hosea 12:7-14
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He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth
to oppress.
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And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me...
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And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a
wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
AND JACOB FLED INTO ... SYRIA; AND ISRAEL SERVED FOR A WIFE. Though
ye pride yourselves on the...
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12:12 Syria, (f-8) Or 'fields,' or 'open country' of Aram.' see
Genesis 28:2 ....
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A REPROOF OF COMMERCIAL DISHONESTY
The Hebrew text divides the chapter more correctly at this v. The
prophet returns to the subject of the unfaithfulness both of Israel
and of Judah. They have sought...
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JUDAH.. SAINTS] RM better, 'and Judah is yet unstedfast with God, and
with the Holy One who is faithful.'
HOSEA 12:1. EPHRAIM.. EAST WIND] an attack on Israel's foreign policy
and cunning commercial d...
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THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING
HOSEA
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 12
V1 There is much that the people of Israel do from morning to night.
But it has no worth. They tell lies and they destroy thi...
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JACOB... ISRAEL. — Resuming the retrospect over early patriarchal
history, begun in Hosea 12:4. Notwithstanding the loneliness and
humble position of the patriarch, God took care of him, and he won th...
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_[Hosea 12:13]_ וַ יִּבְרַ֥ח יַעֲקֹ֖ב
שְׂדֵ֣ה אֲרָ֑ם...
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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...
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TURN TO GOD, NOT TO SELFISH GAIN
Hosea 11:12; Hosea 12:1-14
Though Judah still ruled with God, Hosea 11:12, yet there was grave
fault in him, and, like Ephraim, which had been engaging the prophet's...
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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...
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(l) And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a
wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].
(l) If you boast of your riches and nobility, you seem to reproach
your father, who was a p...
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CHAPTER XII.
_ Jacob. The history of the patriarch, and of his posterity, serves to
place the ingratitude of the people in the clearest light.
(Worthington) --- The prophet had interrupted the accoun...
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The Holy Ghost is here again pleased to refer to the history of Jacob,
and affectionately speaks of him and his love. But if Jacob be so
spoken of under those endearments of character; what must we sa...
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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...
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The Prophet now employs another kind of reproof, — that the
Israelites did not consider from what source they had proceeded, and
were forgetful of their origin. And the Prophet designedly touches on
t...
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The Spirit presents another aspect of the relationship of Israel with
God. He would punish Ephraim, and the sins of Judah should be
remembered. But He reminds them, that there was a time when Jacob
co...
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AND JACOB FLED INTO THE COUNTRY OF SYRIA,.... Or, "field of Syria" m;
the same with Padanaram; for "Padan", in the Arabic language, as
Bochart has shown, signifies a field; and "Aram" is Syria, and is...
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And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a
wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].
Ver. 12. _And Jacob fled into the country of Syria_] Jacob, in whom
ye glory, was a poor forlor...
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Hos. 12:12, 13, "And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel
served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep. And by a prophet the
Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he pr...
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_Is there iniquity in Gilead?_ Or, _Was there idolatry in Gilead?_ as
the word און often signifies. _Surely they are vanity, &c., in
Gilgal_ The tribes settled about Gilead beyond Jordan, were already...
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And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a
wife, and for a wife he kept sheep, the purpose of this reference
being to remind Israel of the labor and misery which their forefathe...
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ANOTHER SERIOUS REPROACH...
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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 suppos...
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JACOB, the patriarch, FLED INTO THE COUNTRY OF SYRIA, for fear of
Esau. AND ISRAEL, though honoured with that great name, served,
stooped to the condition which is next door to slave, FOR A WIFE; a
wi...
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Hosea 12:12 Jacob H3290 fled H1272 (H8799) country H7704 Syria H758
Israel H3478 served H5647 (H8799) spouse...
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HAVING MADE HIS APPEAL FOR REPENTANCE HOSEA NOW INDICATES THAT EPHRAIM
ARE SO CONFIDENT IN THEMSELVES THAT THEIR ONLY HOPE WILL BE AFTER THEY
HAVE BEEN ‘BROUGHT DOWN A PEG OR TWO' (HOSEA 12:8).
This p...
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‘And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a
wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.'
He reminds them that just as Israel had gone into Egypt, and had been
delivered by redemption so as...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Further reproof of Israel's
sins.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: Those who make creatures and things their confidence, put
a cheat upon their own souls, and pr...
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Hosea 12:4. _He found him in Bethel._ Christ, the angel, the mystical
angel, or the Angel the Word, as St. Clemens of Alexandria calls him:
so indeed do all the orthodox fathers. The church knows of n...
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HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 12:2 Hosea recounts incidents from Israel’s
past in order to display the Lord’s enduring kindness and Israel’s
stubborn ingratitude.
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Hosea 12:11. Vanity] The question strengthens the affirmation. All was
to no purpose. Warnings unheeded, altars as numerous as heaps of
stones gathered out of the field, and scenes...
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EXPOSITION
In Hosea 12:1 God continues his complaint against Ephraim, charging
them specially with the pursuit of vain and futile courses to their
great detriment. Instead of repairing to the true and...
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Ephraim feeds on the wind, and follows after the east wind: he daily
increases lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the
Assyrians (Hsa Hosea 12:1),
They tried to escape the destructi...
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Fled — For fear of Esau....