Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Hosea 11:3

taught . . . to go—literally "to use his feet." Compare a similar image, Deuteronomy 1:31; Deuteronomy 8:2, Deuteronomy 8:5, Deuteronomy 8:15; Deuteronomy 32:10-11; Nehemiah 9:21; Isaiah 63:9; Amos 2:10. God bore them as a parent does an infant, unable to supply itself, so that it has no anxiety about food, raiment, and its going forth. Acts 13:18, which probably refers to this passage of Hosea; He took them by the arms, to guide them that they might not stray, and to hold them up that they might not stumble.

knew not that I healed them—that is, that My design was to restore them spiritually and temporally (Exodus 15:26).

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Hosea 11:3:

Psalms 78:9-11
Isaiah 42:6
Jeremiah 31:32
John 6:44

 

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