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Join us as we study through Hosea 13 verse by verse. Our discussion questions, verse by verse commentary, and applications can help you or your small group get the most out of this book as you grow in understanding and obedience.
Hosea 13 is a poignant chapter in the Bible that highlights the tragic downfall of Israel due to its abandonment of God and its obsession with idolatry. This chapter is rich with symbolism, forewarning, and lament for a nation that once held a favored position but had strayed away due to sin and rebellion.
In ancient Israel human sacrifice was almost always child-sacrifice. Hosea already spoken of this horrible practice in Hosea 9:13 and perhaps in Hosea 5:2. i. “Viewed together, the sin is a total perversion of values.
Samaria was the important city of Israel (verse 16). It was where Hoshea, the king, lived. This is why Assyria wanted to attack it. They will show no mercy. 2 Kings 15:16 and Amos 1:13 are other verses which show how armies attack people. They took babies that were inside women.
In chapters 12-13, Hosea gives an Israelite history lesson to show just how unfaithful they’ve been from the very beginning. He alludes to the patriarch Jacob’s lying and treachery (Gen. 27-28), to Israel’s rebellion in the wilderness (Num. 12-20), and to their appointment of the corrupt King Saul, who led them into disaster (1 Sam. 12, 15).
2. (Hosea 13:12-16) The sorrowful judgment of Ephraim and her children. “The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; His sin is stored up. The sorrows of a woman in childbirth shall come upon him. He is an unwise son, For he should not stay long where children are born. I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death.
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Hosea 13. The same strings, though generally unpleasing ones, are harped upon in this chapter that were in those before. People care not to be told either of their sin or of their danger by sin; and yet it is necessary, and for their good, that they should be told of both, nor can they better hear of either than from the word of God and from their faithful ministers, while the sin may be ...
