King James Version
Hosea 13:1 in the King James Version says “When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.” — study this verse from Hosea chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.”
Hosea 13:1 · KJV
When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.
And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. they sin: Heb. they add to sin the men: or, the sacrificers of men
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“spake”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“When Ephraim”
H669ephrajim, a son of joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
“he exalted”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“himself in Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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