Hosea 11:3 BSB — MannaFest

Hosea 11:3

It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.

BSB

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ASV

Yet I taught Ephraim to walk; I took them on my arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

KJV

I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Hosea 11:3-4 (420)

"And I, as a foster father to Ephraim, carried them in my arms, and they did not know that I healed them. I drew them with cords of Adam, with the bonds of love. And I will be to them like one who lifts the yoke from their cheeks, and I inclined to him so he could eat." LXX: "And I gathered" ((or "placed")) Ephraim, I took him up on my arm; and they did not know that I healed them in the corruption of humans. I drew them with the cords of my love.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

I taught Ephraim also to go,.... All the tribes of Israel and Ephraim, or the ten tribes with the rest; these the Lord instructed in the way of his commandments, and taught them to walk therein; he his angel before them, to conduct them through the wilderness; yea, he himself went before them in the pillar of cloud by day, and in the pillar of fire by night, to which history this seems to refer.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

I taught Ephraim also to go - Literally, “and I set Ephraim on his feet;” i. e., while they were rebelling, I was helping and supporting them, as a nurse doth her child, teaching it to go with little steps, step by step, “accustoming it to go by little and little without weariness;” and not only so, but “taking them by their arms;” or it may be equally translated, “He took them in His arms,” i. e., God not only gently “taught” them “to walk,” but when they were wearied, “He took them up in His arms,” as a nurse doth a child when tired with its little attempts to walk.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאָנֹכִ֤י	ve.'a.no.Khi	and I	H595 →
תִרְגַּ֙לְתִּי֙	tir.Gal.ti	I taught to walk	H8637 →
לְאֶפְרַ֔יִם	le.'ef.Ra.yim	<to> Ephraim	H669 →
קָחָ֖ם	ka.Cham	he took them	H3947 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
זְרֽוֹעֹתָ֑יו	ze.ro.'o.Tav	arms his	H2220 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
יָדְע֖וּ	ya.de.'U	they knew	H3045 →
כִּ֥י	ki	that	H3588 →
רְפָאתִֽים׃	re.fa.Tim	I had healed them	H7495 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 15:26
saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then…
leads to
- Psalms 103:3
  He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 7:15
  And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.
- Exodus 23:25
  So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.
- Psalms 41:3–4
  The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.
- Psalms 147:3
  He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
Through
Jeremiah 30:17
But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
leads to
- Psalms 107:20
  He sent forth His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit.
- Jeremiah 33:6
  Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
- 1 Peter 2:24
  He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Hosea

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Hosea