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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Hosea 12

Chapter 12

Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

feedeth

8:7 Job 15:2 Jeremiah 22:22

he daily

11:12

and they

5:13 2 Kings 15:19 17:4-6 Isaiah 30:6,7

The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.

a controversy

4:1 Jeremiah 25:31 Micah 6:2

and will

2 Kings 17:19,20 Isaiah 8:7,8 10:6 Jeremiah 3:8-11 Ezekiel 23:11-21 Ezekiel 23:31,32

punish

Heb. visit upon.

2:13 8:13 9:9 Isaiah 10:12 24:21 *marg:

according to his doings

Isaiah 3:11 59:18 Matthew 16:27 Romans 2:6 Galatians 6:7

He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:

took

Genesis 25:26 Romans 9:11

had, etc

Heb. was a prince, or, behaved himself princely.

Genesis 32:24-28 James 5:16-18

Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;

angel

Genesis 32:29 48:15 Exodus 3:2-5 Isaiah 63:9 Malachi 3:1 Acts 7:30-35

made

Genesis 32:9-12 Hebrews 5:7

found

Genesis 28:11-19 35:9

spake

Psalms 66:6 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Hebrews 6:13-18

Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.

Even

Genesis 28:16 32:30

is

Exodus 3:15 Psalms 135:13 Isaiah 42:8

Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

turn

14:1 Proverbs 1:23 Isaiah 31:6 55:6,7 Jeremiah 3:14-22 Lamentations 3:39-41 Joel 2:13 Zechariah 1:3 Acts 2:38 26:20

keep

4:1 Proverbs 21:3 Isaiah 1:16 58:6 Jeremiah 22:15 Amos 5:24 Micah 6:8 Zechariah 7:9 Zechariah 8:16 James 1:27 2:13

wait

Genesis 49:18 Psalms 27:14 37:7 123:2 130:5-7 Isaiah 8:17 30:18 40:31 Lamentations 3:25,26 Habakkuk 2:3 Zephaniah 3:8

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

a merchant

or, Canaan.

Ezekiel 16:3 Zechariah 14:21 John 2:16

the balances

Leviticus 19:35,36 Proverbs 11:1 16:11 Amos 8:5,6 Micah 6:10,11 1 Timothy 6:9,10

he loveth

Isaiah 3:5 Ezekiel 22:29 Amos 2:7 3:9 4:1 5:11 Micah 2:1 3:1-3 7:2 Malachi 3:5 James 5:4

oppress

or, deceive.

1 Samuel 12:3

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 that were sin.

Yet

Job 31:24,25 Psalms 49:6 52:7 62:10 Zechariah 11:5 Luke 12:19 16:13 1 Timothy 6:5,17 Revelation 3:17

I have

Deuteronomy 8:17 Isaiah 10:13,14 Habakkuk 1:16 2:5,6

in all, etc

or, all my labours suffice me not; he shall have punishment of iniquity in whom is sin. they.

Proverbs 30:12,20 Jeremiah 2:23,35 Malachi 2:17 3:13 Luke 10:29 16:15

that

Heb. which.

And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.

I that

13:4 Exodus 20:2 Leviticus 19:36 26:13 Numbers 15:41 Psalms 81:10 Micah 6:4

yet

Genesis 25:27 2 Samuel 7:2 Jeremiah 35:7 Hebrews 11:9-13

as in

Leviticus 23:40-43 Ezra 3:4 Nehemiah 8:15-17 Zechariah 14:16-19 John 7:2

I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.

have also

1 Kings 13:1 14:7-16 17:1 18:21-40 19:10 2 Kings 17:13 Nehemiah 9:30 Jeremiah 25:4 Amos 7:14

multiplied

Numbers 12:6 Joel 2:28 Acts 2:17 2 Corinthians 12:1,7

used

1:2-5 3:1 Isaiah 5:1-7 20:2-5 Jeremiah 13:1-14 19:1,10 Ezekiel 4:1-5 Ezekiel 15:1-8 20:49

ministry

Heb. hand.

Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

iniquity

6:8 1 Kings 17:1

surely

Jeremiah 10:8,15 Jonah 2:8

they sacrifice

4:15 9:15 Amos 4:4 5:5

their altars

8:11 10:1 2 Kings 17:9-11 Jeremiah 2:20,28

And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

Jacob

Genesis 27:43 28:1-29 Deuteronomy 26:5

Israel

Genesis 32:27,28

served

Genesis 29:18-28 31:41

And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

13:4,5 Exodus 12:50,51 13:3 1 Samuel 12:8 Psalms 77:20 Isaiah 63:11,12 Amos 2:11,12 Micah 6:4 Acts 3:22,23 7:35-37

Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.

provoked

2 Kings 17:7-18 Ezekiel 23:2-10

most bitterly

Heb. with bitternesses. therefore.

2 Samuel 1:16 1 Kings 2:33,34 Ezekiel 18:13 24:7,8 33:5

blood

Heb. bloods. and his.

7:16 Deuteronomy 28:37 1 Samuel 2:30 Daniel 11:18