Verse 5
"I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought."
In Hosea 13:4, the bringing up of the children of Israel out of slavery in Egypt was mentioned; and here, the experience of the people during the period of their wilderness wanderings, as that experience related to God's protection and blessing, is mentioned. All of these historical facts relate to the right of Israel's true God to reject and punish their ingratitude and rebellion against him.
The point of this reference to Israel's history is in the fact that God had effectively demonstrated his superiority above and over all the so-called gods of paganism, a blindness to which truth lay at the bottom of Israel's reversion to paganism.
"Jehovah delivered them from the power of Egypt and Egypt's "gods" by demonstrating through Moses and Aaron the impotence of Egypt's idols and his own omnipotence."[14]
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