King James Version
Hosea 12:13 in the King James Version says “And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.” — study this verse from Hosea chapter 12 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.”
Hosea 12:13 · KJV
Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him. most: Heb. with bitternesses blood: Heb. bloods
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“brought”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“was he preserved”
H8104properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e., guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc
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