Hosea 12:2

Jacob refers to the northern kingdom.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob - The guilt of Judah was not open apostasy, nor had he filled up the measure o...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

The LORD hath also a controversy with (c) Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. (c) Wh...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

The LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. punish . visit upon. Jacob. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for Israel, especially...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

It may seem strange that the Prophet should now say, that God had a controversy with Judah; for he had before said, that Judah stood faithfu...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. The Lord ha...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. The...
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 unfaith...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jacob ] as before used to introduce the personal history of the Patriarch, from which Hosea seeks to draw an analogous lesson for the people. Jacob...
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 salvati...
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 hi...
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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here the whole tribes or Israel and Juda are reproved. The Lord shows to what a degenerate state the both families were brought, and how different fr...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah ,.... The two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, as well as the ten tribes; for though they had ruled with Go...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. Ver. 2....
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ephraim feedeth on wind Flatters himself with vain, delusive hopes, of receiving effectual support from the alliances which he forms. It is a prove...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Crimes of Israel and Judah; Expostulations with Israel. B. C. 723....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah; though Judah, compared with Ephraim, be faithful, yet when considered in his ways and doings he is fou...
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 t...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

AN APPEAL IS MADE TO JACOB'S EXAMPLE WHICH SIMPLY SERVES TO REVEAL ISRAEL'S PARLOUS STATE AND GUARANTEES THE COMING JUDGMENT OF DESTRUCTION AND THE...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘YHWH has also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob in accordance with his ways, according to his doings will he recompense him.' But as...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Hosea 12:1 . Feed] To eat or graze. Wind ] What is empty and vain; to hunt after nothing, labour in vain. East ] A fierce and...
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 inde...
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 t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Lord's Accusation
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah, a contest to be decided in a court of law, by a formal suit, and will punish Jacob, the ten northern t...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 17:19 ; 2 Kings 17:20 ; Ezekiel 23:11-21 ; Ezekiel 23:31 ; Ezekiel 23:32 ; Galatians 6:7 ; Hosea 2:13 ; Hosea 4:1 ; Hosea 8:13 ; Ho...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Jacob — Ephraim and Judah are of Jacob, both have corrupted themselves, and therefore I will proceed against both.

² The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punisha Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.

Related Commentaries of Hosea 12:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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