Hosea 12

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Hosea 12:1-14

1. THE PEOPLE AND THEIR FATHER JACOBHosea 12:1-14In no part even of the difficult Book of Hosea does the sacred text bristle with more problems. It may well be doubted whether the verses lie in their proper order, or, if they do, whether we have them entire as they came from the prophet, for the connection is not always perceptible. We cannot believe, however, that the chapter is a bundle of isolated oracles, for the analogy between Jacob and his living posterity runs through the whole of it,... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Hosea 12:1-14

CHAPTERS 11:12-12:14 The Indictment 1. Ephraim’s indictment (Hosea 11:12 ; Hosea 12:1-2 ) 2. Remembrance of the past (Hosea 12:3-6 ) 3. What Israel had become (Hosea 12:7-14 ) Chapter 11:12-12:2. Lying and deceit had been Ephraim’s course towards Jehovah; instead of trusting Him and following Him faithfully they had attached themselves to idols, while Judah still outwardly cleaved to Jehovah, though it was in a rambling way. The word translated “ruleth” means rambling. The better... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Hosea 12:1

12:1 Ephraim feedeth {a} on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and {b} oil is carried into Egypt.(a) That is, flatters himself with vain confidence.(b) Meaning presents to get friendship. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Hosea 12:2

12:2 The LORD hath also a controversy with {c} Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.(c) Which in those points was similar to Ephraim, but not in idolatry. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Hosea 12:3

12:3 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 abhorred. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Hosea 12:4

12:4 Yea, he had {e} power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: {f} he found him [in] Bethel, and there he spake with us;(e) Read Genesis 32:24-32 .(f) God found Jacob as he lay sleeping in Bethel Genesis 28:12 , and spoke with him there in such a way that the fruit of that speech appertained to the whole body of the people, of which we are. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Hosea 12:7

12:7 [He is] {g} a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.(g) As for Ephraim, he is more like the wicked Canaanites than godly Abraham or Jacob. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Hosea 12:8

12:8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: [in] all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me {h} that [were] sin.(h) Thus way the wicked measure God’s favour by outward prosperity, and like hypocrites cannot endure that any should reprove their doings. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Hosea 12:9

12:9 And I [that am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in {i} the days of the solemn feast.(i) Seeing you will not acknowledge my benefits, I will bring you again to dwell in tents, as in the feast of the Tabernacles, which you now condemn. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Hosea 12:11

12:11 [Is there] {k} iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.(k) The people thought that no man dare have spoken against Gilead, that holy place, and yet the Prophet says that all their religion was but vanity. read more

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