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Hosea 12:10 KJV
Hosea · chapter 12 · verse 10
I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.Hosea 12:10 · King James Version
Hosea 12:10 in context
8And 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.
9And 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.
10I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
11Is 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.
12And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- similitudesdâmâhto compareH1819 →
- multipliedrâbâhto increaseH7235 →
- prophetsnâbîyʼa prophet or inspired manH5030 →
- ministryyâda handH3027 →
- visionschâzôwna sightH2377 →
- spokendâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
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Here are intermixed, in these verses, I. Reproofs for sin. When God is coming forth to contend with a people, that he may demonstrate his own righteousness, he will demonstrate their unrighteousness. Ephraim was called to turn to his God and keep judgment (Hos 12:6);
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-14