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The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:6

Turn thou to thy God. If there is one message more frequently repeated than another in the Scriptures, both of the Old and New Testaments, it is this message requiring repentance . There has been no generation of men, nay, there has been no individual man, to whom it might not justly be said, Repent! I. HUMAN CHARACTER AND LIFE ARE SUCH AS TO RENDER NECESSARY THIS TURNING TO GOD . One who is on the right road already has no need to turn; but he who is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:6

Wait on thy God. It is very instructive that the prophet in this passage admonished, not only to repentance, reformation, and righteousness, but also to "waiting on God." Many of the effects of repentance, and especially the moral, subjective effects, might be felt immediately, but there were other consequences which might probably be delayed. Hence the admonition of the text. I. IT IS HONORING TO GOD THAT HIS PEOPLE SHOULD WAIT UPON HIM . It is not for man to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:6

Genuine human goodness. "Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually." Delitzsch renders the verse thus: "And thou to thy God shall return, keep love, and right, and hope continually in thy God." The new translation gives no new idea. The few words may be regarded as representing genuine human goodness. Looking at it in this respect it includes three things. I. SPIRITUAL CONVERSION . "Turn thou to thy God." An expression implying that... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 12:3

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. Whence the Jews paraphrased , “Was it not predicted of your lather Jacob, before he was born, that he should become greater than his brother?” Yet this was not fulfilled until more than 500 years afterward, nor completely until the time of David. These gifts were promised to Jacob out of the free... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 12:4

He wept and made supplication unto Him - Jacob’s weeping is not mentioned by Moses. Hosea then knew more than Moses related. He could not have gathered it out of Moses, for Moses relates the words of earnest supplication; yet the tone is that of one, by force of earnest energy, wresting, as it were, the blessing from God, not of one weeping. Yet Hosea adds this, in harmony with Moses. For “vehement desires and earnest petitions frequently issue in tears.” “To implore means to ask with tears” .... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 12:5

Even the Lord God of Hosts, the Lord is His memorial - The word, here as translated and written Lord, is the special and, so to say, the proper Name of God, that which He gave to Himself, and which declares His Being. God Himself authoritatively explained its meaning. When Moses inquired of Him, what he should say to Israel, when they should ask him, “what is the Name of the God of their fathers,” who, he was to tell them, had sent him to them, “God said ... I Am That I Am ... thus shalt thou... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 12:6

Therefore turn thou to thy God - (Literally, “And thou, thou shalt turn” so as to lean “on thy God.”) “And thou” unlike, he would say, as thou art to thy great forefather, now at least, “turn to thy God;” hope in Him, as Jacob hoped; and thou too shalt be accepted. God was the Same. They then had only to turn to Him in truth, and they too would find Him, such as Jacob their father had found Him, and then “trust in him continually. mercy and judgment” include all our duty to our neighbor, love... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 12:3

Hosea 12:3 . 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 upon him; partly with a view to encourage them to imitate him in endeavouring to obtain the like blessings, and partly to convince them of their ingratitude and degeneracy from him. His taking his brother by the heel, signified his striving, by a divine instinct, for the birthright... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 12:4-5

Hosea 12:4-5 . He had power over the angel Called God, Hosea 12:3, and Jehovah, God of hosts, Hosea 12:5, namely, God by nature and essence, and an angel by office and voluntary undertaking. He wept and made supplication unto him He prayed with tears from a sense of his own unworthiness, and with earnestness for the mercy he desired. Jacob’s wrestling with the angel was, as has been just intimated, not only a corporal conflict, but likewise a spiritual one; from bodily wrestling he betook... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 12:6

Hosea 12:6. Therefore turn thou to thy God “Thou therefore, O Israel, encouraged by the memory of God’s love to thy progenitor, and by the example which thou hast in him, of the efficacy of weeping and supplication, turn to thy God in penitence and prayer, and in the [practice of] works of righteousness.” Horsley. Leave your idolatries and all your sins. Jacob worshipped God alone, do you so; he cast all idols out of his family, do you so too; be Jacob’s children herein. Keep mercy and ... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 12:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 12:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 12:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 12:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 12:6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 12:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 12:4-5

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 12:6

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