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Text -- Hosea 12:6-14 (NET)
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12:6 But you must return to your God , by maintaining love and justice , and by waiting for your God to return to you.
The Lord Refutes Israel’s False Claim of Innocence
12:7 The businessmen love to cheat ; they use dishonest scales .
12:8 Ephraim boasts , “I am very rich ! I have become wealthy ! In all that I have done to gain my wealth, no one can accuse me of any offense that is actually sinful .”
12:9 “I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt ; I will make you live in tents again as in the days of old .
12:10 I spoke to the prophets ; I myself revealed many visions ; I spoke in parables through the prophets .”
12:11 Is there idolatry in Gilead ? Certainly its inhabitants will come to nothing ! Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal ? Surely their altars will be like stones heaped up on a plowed field !
Jacob in Aram, Israel in Egypt, and Ephraim in Trouble
12:12 Jacob fled to the country of Aram , then Israel worked to acquire a wife ; he tended sheep to pay for her .
12:13 The Lord brought Israel out of Egypt by a prophet , and due to a prophet Israel was preserved alive .
12:14 But Ephraim bitterly provoked him to anger ; so he will hold him accountable for the blood he has shed, his Lord will repay him for the contempt he has shown.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Israel |
Idolatry |
Moses |
Commerce |
HOSEA |
Measure |
Similitude |
Balances |
Vision |
Repentance |
Gilgal |
FAITHFUL; FAITHFULNESS |
Hosea, Prophecies of |
CALF, GOLDEN |
Sin |
Jacob |
Waiting |
Gilead |
Wicked |
Marriage |
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