Hosea 11:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. I taught Ephraim also to go - An allusion to a mother or nurse teaching a child to walk, directing it how to lift and lay its feet, and supporting it in the meantime by the arms, that it may use its feet with the greater ease. This is a passage truly pathetic.