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Text -- Hosea 12:5 (NET)

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12:5 As for the Lord God Almighty, the Lord is the name by which he is remembered!
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Hos 12:5 - -- He that appeared and spake, who promised the blessing and commanded the reformation at Beth - el was Jehovah, the eternal and unchangeable God; who ca...

He that appeared and spake, who promised the blessing and commanded the reformation at Beth - el was Jehovah, the eternal and unchangeable God; who can perform his promise, and execute his threat, who is a most terrible enemy, and most desirable friend.

Wesley: Hos 12:5 - -- Jehovah, repeated for confirmation.

Jehovah, repeated for confirmation.

Wesley: Hos 12:5 - -- By this he will be known.

By this he will be known.

JFB: Hos 12:5 - -- JEHOVAH, a name implying His immutable constancy to His promises. From the Hebrew root, meaning "existence." "He that is, was, and is to be," always t...

JEHOVAH, a name implying His immutable constancy to His promises. From the Hebrew root, meaning "existence." "He that is, was, and is to be," always the same (Heb 13:8; Rev 1:4, Rev 1:8; compare Exo 3:14-15; Exo 6:3). As He was unchangeable in His favor to Jacob, so will He be to His believing posterity.

JFB: Hos 12:5 - -- Which Israel foolishly worshipped. Jehovah has all the hosts (saba) or powers of heaven and earth at His command, so that He is as all-powerful, as He...

Which Israel foolishly worshipped. Jehovah has all the hosts (saba) or powers of heaven and earth at His command, so that He is as all-powerful, as He is faithful, to fulfil His promises (Psa 135:6; Amo 5:27).

JFB: Hos 12:5 - -- The name expressive of the character in which God was ever to be remembered (Psa 135:13).

The name expressive of the character in which God was ever to be remembered (Psa 135:13).

Clarke: Hos 12:5 - -- The Lord is his memorial - He is the same God as when Jacob so successfully wrestled with him.

The Lord is his memorial - He is the same God as when Jacob so successfully wrestled with him.

TSK: Hos 12:5 - -- Even : Gen 28:16, Gen 32:30 is : Exo 3:15; Psa 135:13; Isa 42:8

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Hos 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...

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 say, I Am"(E\caps1 hy\caps0 e\caps1 h\caps0 ) "hath sent me unto you; and God said again unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord"(literally, He is, YeHeWeH , "God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you; This is My Name forever, and this is My memorial unto all generations"Exo 3:13-15.

I am, expresses self-existence; He who alone is. I am that I am, expresses His unchangeableness, the necessary attribute of the Self-existent, who, since He is, ever is all which He is. "To Be,"says Augustine , "is a name of unchangeableness. For all things which are changed, cease to be what they were, and begin to be what they were not. True Being, pure Being, genuine Being, no one hath, save He who changeth not. He hath Being to whom it is said, "Thou shalt change them and they shall be changed, but Thou art the Same."What is, I am that I am, but, I am Eternal? What is, I am that I am, save, I cannot be changed? No creature, no heaven, no earth, no angel, "nor Power, nor Throne, nor Dominion, nor Principality."This then being the name of eternity, it is somewhat more, than He vouchsafed to him a name of mercy, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob. That,"He is in Himself, "this,"to us.

If he willed only to be That which he is in Himself, what should we be? Since Moses understood, when it was said to him, I am that I am, He who is hath sent me unto you, he believed that this was much to people, he saw that this was far removed from people. For whose hath understood, as he ought, That which is, and which truly is, and, in whatever degree, hath even transiently, as by a lightning flash, been irradiated by the light of the One True Essence, sees himself far below, in the utmost farness of removal and unlikeness."This, the Self-existent, the Unchangeable, was the meaning of God’ s ancient Name, by which He was known to the patriarchs, although they had not in act seen His unchangeableness, for theirs was a life of faith, hoping for what they saw not. The word, He is, when used of Him by His creatures, expresses the same which He says of Himself, I AM. This He willed to be "His memorial forever."This the way in which He willed that we should believe in Him and think of Him as He who is, the Self-existing, the Self-Same.

The way of pronouncing that Name is lost . The belief has continued, wherever the Lord is named. For by the Lord we mean the Unchangeable God. That belief is contradicted, whenever people use the name "Jehovah,"to speak of God, as though the belief in Him under the Old Testament differed from that of the New Testament. Perhaps God allowed it to be lost, that people might not make so familiar with it, as they do with the word "Jehovah,"or use it irreverently and in an anti-Christian manner, as some now employ other ways of pronouncing it. The Jews, even before the time of our Lord, ordinarily ceased to pronounce it. In the translations of the Old Testament, and in the Apocrypha, the words, "the Lord,"were substituted for it. Jewish tradition states, that in later times the Name was pronounced in the temple only, by the priests, on pronouncing the blessing commanded by God in the law . On the great Day of Atonement, it was said that the high priest pronounced it ten times , and that when the people heard it, they fell on their faces, saying, "Blessed be the glorious name of His kingdom forever and ever". They say, however, that in the time of Simeon the Just (i. e., ), Jaddua, who died about 322 b.c., the high priests themselves disused it, for fear of its being pronounced by some irreverent person .

Our Lord Himself sanctioned I the disuse of it, (as did the inspired Apostles yet more frequently,) since, in quoting places of the Old Testament in which it occurs, He uses instead of it the Name, "the Lord". It stands, throughout the Old Testament, as the Name which speaks of God in relation to His people, that He ever is; and, since He ever is, then He is unchangeably to us, all which He ever was, "The Same, yesterday and today and forever"Heb 13:8.

He then who appeared to Jacob, and who, in Jacob, spake to all the posterity of Jacob, was God; whether it was (as almost all the early fathers thought ), God the Son, who thus appeared in human form to the patriarchs, Moses, Joshua, and in the time of the Judges, under the name of "the Angel of the Lord,"or whether it was the Father. God Almighty thus accustomed man to see the form of Man, and to know and believe that it was God. He it was, the prophet explains, "the Lord,"i. e., the Self existent, the Unchangeable, "Who was, and is and is to come"Rev 1:4, Rev 1:8, who alone is, and from whom are all things , "the Fullness of Being, both of His own, and of all His creatures, the boundless Ocean of all which is, of wisdom, of glory, of love, of all good."

The Lord of Hosts - that is, of all things visible and invisible, of the angels and heavenly spirits, and of all things animate and inanimate, which, in the history of the Creation, are called "the host of heaven and earth"Gen 2:1, the one host of God. This was the way in which He willed to be had in mind, thought of, remembered. On the one hand then, as relates to Ephraim’ s sin, not by the calves, nor by any other created thing, did He will to be represented to people’ s minds or thoughts. On the other hand, as relates to God’ s mercies, since He, who revealed Himself to Jacob, was the unchangeable God, Israel had no cause to fear, if he returned to the faith of Jacob, whom God there accepted. Whence it follows;

Poole: Hos 12:5 - -- Even or and, he that appeared and spake, who promised the blessing, and commanded the reformation at Beth-el, was the Lord Jehovah, the eternal and...

Even or and, he that appeared and spake, who promised the blessing, and commanded the reformation at Beth-el, was

the Lord Jehovah, the eternal and unchangeable God, who still promiseth with like commands.

God of hosts who can both perform his promise and execute his threat, who is a most terrible enemy and most desirable friend, all being to us as he is.

The Lord Jehovah, repeated for confirmation, is his memorial; by this he will be known, by this name, by such methods of his sovereignty and grace, Exo 3:15 .

Haydock: Hos 12:5 - -- Memorial, and the object of worship; or this great Jehovah spoke to Jacob.

Memorial, and the object of worship; or this great Jehovah spoke to Jacob.

Gill: Hos 12:5 - -- Even the Lord God of hosts,.... The God Jacob had power over, the Angel he prevailed with, to whom he made supplication with weeping, and who spake wi...

Even the Lord God of hosts,.... The God Jacob had power over, the Angel he prevailed with, to whom he made supplication with weeping, and who spake with him and his in Bethel, is he whose name is Jehovah; who is the true and living God, the Lord of hosts and armies both in heaven and in earth; of all the angels in heaven, and the legions of them; and of the church militant, and all the saints, who are the good soldiers of Christ, his spiritual militia; and he is the Captain of the Lord's host, and of their salvation, and to whom all the numerous hosts of creatures, be they what they will, are subject: this is observed, to set off the greatness of the person Jacob wrestled with, and his wondrous grace, in condescending to be overpowered by him:

the Lord is his memorial: or his name, Jehovah, which belongs to this angel, the Son of God, as to his divine Father; and which is expressive of his divine existence, of his eternity and immutability; this is his memorial, or the remembrancer of him; which puts his people in all ages in remembrance of him, what he is, what an infinite, almighty, and all sufficient Being he is; and he is always to be believed in, and trusted to, and to be served, adored, and worshipped. The Targum adds, to every generation and generation.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Hos 12:5 Heb “[is] his memorial name” (so ASV); TEV “the name by which he is to be worshipped.”

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Hos 12:1-14 - --1 A reproof of Ephraim, Judah, and Jacob.3 By former favours he exhorts to repentance.7 Ephraim's sins provoke God.

MHCC: Hos 12:1-6 - --Ephraim feeds himself with vain hopes of help from man, when he is at enmity with God. The Jews vainly thought to secure the Egyptians by a present of...

Matthew Henry: Hos 12:1-6 - -- In these verses, I. Ephraim is convicted of folly, in staying himself upon Egypt and Assyria, when he was in straits (Hos 12:1): Ephraim feeds on w...

Keil-Delitzsch: Hos 12:3-5 - -- "He held his brother's heel in the womb, and in his man's strength he fought with God. Hos 12:4. He fought against the angel, and overcame; wept, ...

Constable: Hos 11:12--Joe 1:1 - --VI. The fifth series of messages on judgment and restoration: historical unfaithfulness 11:12--14:9 A tone of ex...

Constable: Hos 11:12--14:1 - --A. Judgment for unfaithfulness 11:12-13:16 Hosea again established Israel's guilt and predicted her puni...

Constable: Hos 11:12--13:1 - --1. The deceitfulness of Israel 11:12-12:14 Several comparisons of Israel and the patriarch Jacob...

Constable: Hos 12:2-5 - --A lesson from Jacob's life 12:3-6 The Lord proceeded to teach His people the need to repent by reminding them of the experience of their forefather Ja...

Guzik: Hos 12:1-14 - --Hosea 12 - Ancient Jacob and Modern Israel A. The deeply rooted deceit of Israel. 1. (1) Israel trusts in deals and alliances with surrounding natio...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Hosea (Book Introduction) THE first of the twelve minor prophets in the order of the canon (called "minor," not as less in point of inspired authority, but simply in point of s...

JFB: Hosea (Outline) INSCRIPTION. (Hos 1:1-11) Spiritual whoredom of Israel set forth by symbolical acts; Gomer taken to wife at God's command: Jezreel, Lo-ruhamah, and ...

TSK: Hosea 12 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Hos 12:1, A reproof of Ephraim, Judah, and Jacob; Hos 12:3, By former favours he exhorts to repentance; Hos 12:7, Ephraim’s sins provok...

Poole: Hosea (Book Introduction) THE ARGUMENT Without dispute our prophet is one of the obscurest and most difficult to unfold clearly and fully. Though he come not, as Isaiah and ...

Poole: Hosea 12 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 12 Ephraim and Judah are both reproved, Hos 12:1,2 . In consideration of God’ s former favours to Jacob they are exhorted to repent, H...

MHCC: Hosea (Book Introduction) Hosea is supposed to have been of the kingdom of Israel. He lived and prophesied during a long period. The scope of his predictions appears to be, to ...

MHCC: Hosea 12 (Chapter Introduction) (Hos 12:1-6) Judah and Israel reminded of the Divine favours. (Hos 12:7-14) The provocations of Israel.

Matthew Henry: Hosea (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of the Prophet Hosea I. We have now before us the twelve minor prophets, which some of the anc...

Matthew Henry: Hosea 12 (Chapter Introduction) In this chapter we have, I. A high charge drawn up against both Israel and Judah for their sins, which were the ground of God's controversy with t...

Constable: Hosea (Book Introduction) Introduction Title and Writer The prophet's name is the title of the book. The book cl...

Constable: Hosea (Outline) Outline I. Introduction 1:1 II. The first series of messages of judgment and restoration: Ho...

Constable: Hosea Hosea Bibliography Andersen, Francis I., and David Noel Freedman. Hosea: A New Translation, Introduction and Co...

Haydock: Hosea (Book Introduction) THE PROPHECY OF OSEE. INTRODUCTION. Osee , or Hosea, whose name signifies a saviour, was the first in the order of time among those who are ...

Gill: Hosea (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO HOSEA This book, in the Hebrew Bibles, at least in some copies, is called "Sopher Hosea", the Book of Hoses; and, in the Vulgate La...

Gill: Hosea 12 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO HOSEA 12 This chapter contains complaints and charges both against Israel and Judah, and threatens them with punishment in case the...

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