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Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeHosea 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