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Hosea 11:5
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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.
6 And the sword shall slash in his cities,
Devour his districts,
And consume them,
Because of their own counsels.
7 My people are bent on abacksliding from Me.
Though1 they call to the Most High,
None at all exalt Him. 
8 “Howa can I give you up, Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, Israel?
How can I make you like bAdmah?
How can I set you like Zeboiim?
My heart1 churns within Me;
My sympathy is stirred. 
9 I will not execute the fierceness of My anger;
I will not again destroy Ephraim.
aFor I am God, and not man,
The Holy One in your midst;
And I will not1 come with terror. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Hosea 11:5

He shall not return into . . . Egypt—namely, to seek help against Assyria (compare Hosea 7:11), as Israel lately had done (II Kings 17:4), after having revolted from Assyria, to whom they had been tributary from the times of Menahem (II Kings 15:19). In a figurative sense, "he shall return to Egypt" (Hosea 9:3), that is, to Egypt-like bondage; also many Jewish fugitives were literally to return to Egypt, when the Holy Land was to be in Assyrian and Chaldean hands.

Assyrian shall be his king—instead of having kings of their own, and Egypt as their auxiliary.

because they refused to return—just retribution. They would not return (spiritually) to God, therefore they shall not return (corporally) to Egypt, the object of their desire.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Hosea 11:5:

Psalms 78:9-11
Hosea 9:3
Hosea 11:1
Hosea 14:3

 

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