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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Hosea 12:10

I have also spoken by the prophets— Here are three species of prophesy distinctly mentioned: first, immediate suggestion or inspiration, when God dictates the very words which the prophet is to deliver. Secondly, vision, or a representation made of external objects to the imagination, in as lively a manner as if they were conveyed to the senses: and thirdly, parables and apt resemblances. The Lord is here recounting some of the distinguished acts of his sovereign mercy to the Israelites, in order to shew their ingratitude more fully.

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See also Hosea 12:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 12:10. _I HAVE ALSO SPOKEN_] I have used every means, and employed every method, to instruct and save you. I have sent _prophets_, who spake _plainly_, exhorting, warning, and beseeching...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I HAVE ALSO SPOKEN BY THE PROPHETS - Literally, “upon the prophets,” the revelation coming down from heaven upon them. Somewhat like this, is what Ezekiel says, “the hand of the Lord was strong upon m...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SPOKEN BY THE PROPHETS. Compare 2 Kings 17:13. Heb 1:1. 2 Peter 1:21....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    It is not for want of warnings that this calamity comes upon the Israelites. In the most various ways has Jehovah spoken, not _to_, but BY THE PROPHETS. _Visions … similitudes_ A prophetic vision is,...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _PAYING FOR DISHONESTY IN BUSINESS -- HOSEA 12:7-10:_ Israel had become deceitful. They enjoyed cheating and taking advantage of other people. These dishonest people would use a heavy weight to buy wi...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    REQUITINGEPHRAIM HAS PROVOKED TEXT: Hosea 12:7-14 7 He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets. I HAVE ALSO SPOKEN BY THE PROPHETS - literally, upon the prophets - i:e., m...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Hosea 12:11]_ וְ דִבַּ֨רְתִּי֙ עַל ־הַ נְּבִיאִ֔ים...

  • 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

    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...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Prophets. They have represented me as it were under visible forms, that you cannot plead ignorance. The prophets prefigured Christ, the end of the law, &c. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Prophet here follows up the just and becoming resolution which ought to take place in every heart of Jacob's children, whether Ephraim or Judah, in pursuing the steps of their father. And he goes...

  • 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

    The Prophet amplifies the sin of the people in having always obstinately opposed God, so that they were without any pretext of ignorance: for men, we know, evade God’s dreadful judgement as long as th...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I HAVE ALSO SPOKEN TO THE PROPHETS,.... Or, "I will speak" b; for this respects not the Lord's speaking by the prophets of the Old Testament who spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost; though all...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets. Ver. 10. _I have also spoken by the prophets_] And not suffered you to walk i...

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

    _I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt_ From the time I brought thee out of it: _will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles_ That is, in thy habitations, quietly and joyfully, as in festiv...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ANOTHER SERIOUS REPROACH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I have also spoken by the prophets, so that He had always been in close touch with His chosen people, AND I HAVE MULTIPLIED VISIONS AND USED SIMILITUDES, making known His will by parables, BY THE MINI...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    BY THE MINISTRY: _ Heb._ by the handHosea 12:14 MOST BITTERLY:_ Heb._ with bitterness...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I HAVE ALSO SPOKEN BY THE PROPHETS; Heb. _and_, i.e. since I would have continued Ephraim's peaceful state, I have spoken to them by my prophets, who have warned them of their danger, reproved them fo...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the ministry of the prophets have I used illustrations.' He reminded them also that their situation did not arise out of the...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I have also spoken by the prophets._ THE RESPONSIBILITY OF HAVING THE REVEALED WORD OF GOD This is a further declaration of God’s goodness to this people, and an upbraiding of them for their wicked...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _HOMILETICS_ CRITICAL NOTES.] Hosea 12:10. By prophets] who left no means untried, speaking in metaphors and methods adapted to rouse the attention (Numbers 12:6; Numbers 12:8;...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 13:1; 1 Kings 14:7; 1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:21; 1 Kings

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Spoken — To warn them of their danger....

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