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Verse Hosea 12:3. _HE TOOK HIS BROTHER BY THE HEEL_] See on Genesis
25:26; Genesis 32:24, c....
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HE TOOK HIS BROTHER BY THE HEEL IN THE WOMB - Whether or no the act of
Jacob was beyond the strength, ordinarily given to infants in the
womb, the meaning of the act was beyond man’s wisdom to declare...
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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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_He took his brother by the heel_ As if Jacob meant, The Supplanter.
The same verb is used by Esau in an unfavourable sense in Genesis
27:36; but Hosea here evidently means to edify his people by the...
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Two episodes (for a third, see Hosea 12:12) in the history of Jacob
are applied to the spiritual wants of his descendants. Jacob in the
very womb seemed ambitious of the blessing, and when a grown man...
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_GOD'S CONTROVERSY WITH ISRAEL AND JUDAH -- HOSEA 12:1-4:_ Israel was
wasting her time on that which had no spiritual substance. It was like
feeding on the wind. It was an "east" wind or a wind off of...
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DISCOURSE: 1172
JACOB WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL
Hosea 12:3; Hosea 12:6. _By his strength he had power with God: yea,
he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept and made
supplication unto him....
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LOVE REBUKING
REQUITINGEPHRAIM HAS PROVOKED
TEXT: Hosea 12:1-6
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Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he
continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant...
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He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he
had power with God:
HE - Jacob, contrasted with his degenerate descendants, called by his
name Jacob, (: cf. , "O thou that art...
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BY HIS STRENGTH] RV 'in his manhood.' It refers to Jacob's wrestling
with the angel at Penuel (Genesis 32:24)....
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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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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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HAD POWER. — Should be, _strove._ Prayers and tears were the weapons
used in the memorable struggle for pardon, reconciliation, peace in
the self-conquest as well as the God-conquest which was achieve...
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_[Hosea 12:4]_ בַּ † בֶּ֖טֶן עָקַ֣ב אֶת ־אָ
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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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He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he
had (d) power with God:
(d) Seeing that God in this way preferred Jacob their father, Judah's
ingratitude was the more to be abhorr...
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_Brother Esau, thus foreshewing what would happen, Genesis xxv. ---
Angel. Septuagint, "God," whose place this angel held. Elohim implies
both, ver. 4., and Genesis xxxii. 24._...
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We have here the most honorable testimony of the Patriarch Jacob, in
the record God the Holy Ghost hath been pleased to give of his conduct
at Bethel in that memorable night, when expecting the furiou...
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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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In all this discourse the Prophet condemns the ingratitude of the
people; and then he shows how shamefully they had departed from the
example of their father, in whose name they yet took pride. This i...
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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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HE TOOK HIS BROTHER BY THE HEEL IN THE WOMB,.... That is, Jacob took
his brother Esau by the heel, as he came forth from his mother's womb;
the history of it is in Genesis 25:25. It is here observed,...
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_He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he
had power with God:_
Ver. 3. _He took his brother by the heel in the womb_] To have
hindered him if he could of the first birthrig...
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_He took his brother by the heel in the womb_ From the mentioning of
Jacob in the foregoing verse, the prophet takes occasion to put his
posterity in mind of the particular favours God had bestowed up...
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He took his brother by the heel in the womb, showing subtlety even
before he was born. Genesis 25:26, AND BY HIS STRENGTH HE HAD POWER
WITH GOD, Genesis 32:25;...
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THE LORD'S ACCUSATION...
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HAD POWER WITH GOD:
_ Heb._ was a prince, or behaved himself princely...
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1-6 Ephraim feeds himself with vain hopes of help from man, when he
is at enmity with God. The Jews vainly thought to secure the Egyptians
by a present of the produce of their country. Judah is conte...
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HE, Jacob, TOOK HIS BROTHER, Esau, by the heel in the womb: the matter
of fact you have GENESIS 25:26; the design of mentioning it in this
place is to mind them of that goodness which God showed to th...
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Hosea 12:3 brother H251 heel H6117 (H8804) womb H990 strength H202
struggled H8280 (H8804) God H430
took -...
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‘In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he
had power with God, yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed.
He wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Beth-el,...
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AN APPEAL IS MADE TO JACOB'S EXAMPLE WHICH SIMPLY SERVES TO REVEAL
ISRAEL'S PARLOUS STATE AND GUARANTEES THE COMING JUDGMENT OF
DESTRUCTION AND THE EXILE BUT IT IS WITH THE PROMISE OF FINAL
RESTORATIO...
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YHWH MAKES A FURTHER APPEAL TO EPHRAIM AND JUDAH ON THE BASIS OF WHAT
THEIR ANCESTOR JACOB DID (HOSEA 12:1).
Having first stressed Ephraim's total folly and unacceptable
deceitfulness, and the fact th...
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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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_And by his strength he had power with God._
WRESTLING JACOB
This story has a strange fascination for most Bible readers, due, in
part, to the vividness with which it is told; in part, to the deep
sp...
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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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HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 12:3 HE STROVE WITH THE ANGEL AND PREVAILED at
Peniel (Genesis 32:24). There the angel touched Jacob’s hip socket
and put it out of joint. That div
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Hosea 12:3.] Jacob was their forefather; they should imitate his good,
not his bad qualities. They are descendants, but their ways contrast
with his (Micah 2:7). He secured the birth...
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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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Genesis 25:26; Genesis 32:24; James 5:16; Romans 9:11...
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He — Jacob. Took his brother — The design of mentioning this is to
mind them of that goodness which God shewed them in their father
Jacob. His strength — This strength was not of nature, but of grace....