Hosea 12:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. ”

• Hosea 12:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Therefore turn thou to thy God - (Literally, “And thou, thou shalt turn” so as to lean “on thy God.”) “And thou” unlike, he would say, as thou art to thy great forefather, now at least, “turn to...

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• Hosea 12:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Hosea 11:12 to Hosea 12:14 (= Hebrews 12:1-15 ). Ephraim's Infidelity Traced from the Beginning. This is one of the most difficult passages in Hosea. In the text Judah also is mentioned; but...

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• Hosea 12:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Therefore, &c. Compare Hosea 14:1 . mercy . lovingkindness, or grace. wait on thy God . wait for thy God. Ref to Pentateuch ( Genesis 49:18 ). Compare Psalms 37:7 ; Isaiah 25:9 ; Isaiah...

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• Hosea 12:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  The Prophet is now here urgent on the people. Having referred to the example of the patriarch, he shows how unlike him were his posterity, with whom God could avail nothing by sound teaching, t...

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• Hosea 12:6 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1172 JACOB WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL Hosea 12:3-4 ; Hosea 12:6 . By his strength he had power with God: yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept and made supplication...

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• Hosea 12:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. Therefore turn thou to thy God - Because he is the same, and cannot change. Seek him as faithfully and as fer...

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• Hosea 12:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Therefore turn thou, &c.— From these words we learn on what account that which is said concerning Jacob, and concerning God, is spoken; and how it so concerned the Israelites of Hosea's time, a...

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• Hosea 12:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. Therefore turn thou - who dost wish to be a true descendant of Jacob. To thy God - who is therefo...

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• Hosea 12:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  A Reproof of Commercial Dishonesty The Hebrew text divides the chapter more correctly at this v. The prophet returns to the subject of the unfaithfulness both of Israel and of Judah. They have sou...

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• Hosea 12:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Therefore ... — More correctly, But do thou return to thy God. There is an implied contrast between the patriarch and his degenerate descendants in the days of Hosea.

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• Hosea 12:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE FINAL ARGUMENT Hosea 12:1-14 - Hosea 14:1 THE impassioned call with which the last chapter closed was by no means an assurance of salvation: "How am I to give thee, up, Ephraim? how am I...

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• Hosea 12:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Turn to God, not to Selfish Gain Hosea 11:12 ; Hosea 12:1-14 Though Judah still ruled with God, Hosea 11:12 , yet there was grave fault in him, and, like Ephraim, which had been engaging the...

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• Hosea 12:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In the second movement Jehovah set the present sin in the light of His present love. The sin of Ephraim and the sin of Judah, if the marginal reading be adopted, are both declared. The sin of Ephraim...

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• Hosea 12:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The Prophet here follows up the just and becoming resolution which ought to take place in every heart of Jacob's children, whether Ephraim or Judah, in pursuing the steps of their father. And he goes...

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• Hosea 12:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Therefore turn thou to thy God ,.... Judah, with whom the Lord had a controversy, is here addressed and exhorted to return to the Lord, from whom they had backslidden; and this is urged, from the co...

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• Hosea 12:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. Ver. 6. Therefore turn thou to thy God ] The premises considered, repent; and so return to God, from whom...

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• Hosea 12:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Therefore turn thou to thy God “Thou therefore, O Israel, encouraged by the memory of God's love to thy progenitor, and by the example which thou hast in him, of the efficacy of weeping and supplic...

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• Hosea 12:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Crimes of Israel and Judah; Expostulations with Israel. B. C. 723.       1 Ephraim feedeth...

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• Hosea 12:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Therefore; no more vainly boast of Jacob; but, as he, do you approve yourselves to God. Turn thou to thy God; repent, leave idols, and all sins. He worshipped God alone, do you so; he cast idols...

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• Hosea 12:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  YHWH Makes A Further Appeal To Ephraim And Judah On The Basis Of What Their Ancestor Jacob Did ( Hosea 12:1-7 ). Having first stressed Ephraim's total folly and unacceptable deceitfulness, and the...

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• Hosea 12:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  TRUE CONVERSION TO GOD.— Hosea 12:6 CRITICAL NOTES.] Hosea 12:6 . Turn] Lit. thou shalt turn, so turn as to enter into vital fellowship with God ( Isaiah 10:22 ). Thou ] who wishest to be a...

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• Hosea 12:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hosea 12:4 . He found him in Bethel. Christ, the angel, the mystical angel, or the Angel the Word, as St. Clemens of Alexandria calls him: so indeed do all the orthodox fathers. The church knows o...

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• Hosea 12:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and Judgment, and wait on thy God continually. Instructions to the unconverted and to the converted As encouragement to repentance, the example of the...

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• Hosea 12:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION In Hosea 12:1-28 God continues his complaint against Ephraim, charging them specially with the pursuit of vain and futile courses to their great detriment. Instead of repairing to t...

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• Hosea 12:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Lord's Accusation

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• Hosea 12:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 2:38 ; Acts 26:20 ; Amos 5:24 ; Genesis 49:18 ; Habakkuk 2:3 ; Hosea 14:1 ; Hosea 4:1 ; Isaiah 1:16 ; Isaiah 30:18 ; Isaiah 31:6 ; Isaiah 40:31 ; Isaiah 55:6 ; Isaiah 55:7 ; Isaiah...

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• Hosea 12:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Turn — Repent, leave idols and all sins. He worshipped God alone, do you so; he cast idols out of his family, do you so too; be Jacob's children herein. Mercy — Shew kindness to all who need it. Ju...

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