Hosea · 14 verses
Hosea 12
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Jacob prevails over the angel, then weeps and seeks His favor; Ephraim boasts of spotless dealings immediately after a merchant is described with dishonest scales.
Wind, wrestling, and scalesvv. 1–8
Ephraim spends the day pursuing the east wind, while making a covenant with Assyria and sending olive oil to Egypt. The charge against Judah turns into Jacob’s extraordinary family portrait: he grasped his brother’s heel, wrestled with God, prevailed over the angel, and then wept for favor at Bethel. The passage ends with a merchant’s dishonest scales beside Ephraim’s cheerful declaration that his wealth contains no sinful iniquity.
Tents, prophets, and old journeysvv. 9–14
The LORD recalls Egypt, promises tents again, and speaks through prophets with visions and parables. Gilead’s iniquity and Gilgal’s bull-sacrifices meet a brisk fate: altars become heaps of stones in the furrows. Jacob fled to Aram and worked for a wife by tending sheep, while Israel was brought out of Egypt and preserved by a prophet. Ephraim’s bitter provocation leaves its bloodguilt and contempt awaiting repayment.
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Hos 12:1Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
Hos 12:2The LORD has a charge to bring against Judah. He will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.
Hos 12:3In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.
Hos 12:4Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there—
Hos 12:5the LORD God of Hosts, the LORD is His name of renown.
Hos 12:6But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and always wait on your God.
Hos 12:7A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
Hos 12:8And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”
Hos 12:9But I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt. I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.
Hos 12:10I spoke through the prophets and multiplied their visions; I gave parables through the prophets.
Hos 12:11Is there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.
Hos 12:12Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.
Hos 12:13But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
Hos 12:14Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt upon him and repay him for his contempt.
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Where this is echoed
Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 212 passages were voted onto 14 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.
- 6Micah 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
- 8Revelation 3:17You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
- 13Acts 3:22–23For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.
- 13Exodus 12:50–51Then all the Israelites did this—they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
- 13Psalms 77:20You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- 3Genesis 25:26After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.
- 5Exodus 3:15God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.
- 1Hosea 11:12Ephraim surrounds Me with lies, the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.
- 2Micah 6:2Hear, O mountains, the LORD’s indictment, you enduring foundations of the earth. For the LORD has a case against His people, and He will argue it against Israel:
- 6Lamentations 3:25–26The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
- 6Hosea 14:1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
- 8Psalms 62:10Place no trust in extortion or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
- 102 Kings 17:13Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”
- 11Hosea 6:8Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood.
- 11Hosea 8:11Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
- 11Hosea 4:15Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’
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