Hosea 12

Geneva Study Bible - Hosea 12:12

12:12 {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 poor fugitive and servant. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Hosea 12:13

12:13 And by a {m} prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.(m) Meaning Moses, by which appears that whatever they have, it comes from God’s free goodness. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Hosea 12:1-14

JEHOVAH ’S LOVE FOR ISRAEL With Hosea begins the “Minor” prophets, extending to the close of the Old Testament, and so-called to distinguish them from the “Major,” the first four already considered. The major are the more important not as to their contents but their size; and yet the minor prophets are, in principle, only repeating what the major prophets have recorded over and over again. For this reason the minor prophets will be considered briefly. It may be repeated that we are not... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Hosea 12:1-14

Divine Criticism Hosea 12:0 Some of these chapters seem to be wholly out of our reach. It is difficult to understand what relation we can sustain to them: are they historical, symbolical, typical, imaginative, real, poetical, dreams or facts? What difference is there between a fact and a dream? Coming to higher interpretations, and looking at wider issues, which is the fact? Probably we shall get at the meaning of this chapter best by trying to find in it a divine standpoint. It is God that... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Hosea 12:1

CONTENTS The subject contained in this Chapter hath respect to Ephraim Judah and Jacob: in it there is a mixture of reproof and commendation. Hosea 12:1 Under the figure of wind is here shown, the vanity and emptiness of the pursuits of Ephraim. anything, and everything, seems preferred by Ephraim, to the Lord! read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Hosea 12:2

Here the whole tribes or Israel and Juda are reproved. The Lord shows to what a degenerate state the both families were brought, and how different from the conduct of their first common father Jacob. Reader! it is a sad reproach to a family, when the descendants depart from the exemplary godliness of their fathers. read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Hosea 12:3-5

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 furious anger of his brother Esau to break out upon him the following day. The history is given us, Genesis 32:0 and the Holy Ghost hath thrown so much light upon it of what is there said, by what is here recorded, that we can never sufficiently bless the Holy Spirit for his grace and condescension in... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Hosea 12:6-11

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 on in those verses to show the great folly, as well as sin, in not doing it. What a sad thing must it have been, that in the very place made memorable to the Father by the visions of God, and therefore by him called Bethel, the house of God; the children should make it Beth-aven, which signifies... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Hosea 12:12-14

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 say of the Lord Jesus Christ? Jacob fled to Syria to avoid his brother's anger. The Lord Jesus Christ came into this our world to remove his Father's anger from his people. Israel served for a wife: Jesus' zeal to his Father's honor and love for his spouse the Church, made him endure the... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Hosea 12:14

REFLECTIONS PAUSE, Reader! and behold how God honored the Patriarch Jacob, a thousand years after his ashes had been mouldering in the dust! Behold what praise the Lord bestowed upon his servant's gallant faith; and learn from hence, how costly such sacrifices are in his sight, when coming up before him in his dear Son's name. Oh! that you and I may learn here from to wrestle with God in prayer, that like the Patriarch, we may have strength in the same source, and have power with God to... read more

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