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Hosea 11:3
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God’s Continuing Love for Israel

1 “When Israel was a1 child, I loved him,
And out of Egypt aI called My bson. 
2 1As they called them,
So they awent from them;
They sacrificed to the Baals,
And burned incense to carved images. 
3 “Ia taught Ephraim to walk,
Taking them by1 their arms;
But they did not know that bI healed them. 
4 I drew them with1 gentle cords,
With bands of love,
And aI was to them as those who take the yoke from their1 neck.
bI stooped and fed them. 
5 “He shall not return to the land of Egypt;
But the Assyrian shall be his king,
Because they refused to repent.
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Hosea 11:3

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.


 
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