Hosea 13:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Yet I, &c. Supply the connecting thought: "[Ye worship these calves], yet I, even I". &c. Compare Hosea 12:9; Isaiah 43:11.

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.

God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.

from the land of Egypt. Supply the Ellipsis (App-6); "[Who brought thee out] from", &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:2; Exodus 20:3).

shalt know no: i.e. didst not, or oughtest not to know.

there is no saviour, &c. Compare Isaiah 43:11; Isaiah 45:21. Supply: "no saviour [was there] beside Me". Compare Acts 4:12.

Hosea 13:4

4 Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.