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Hosea 12:10
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I will speak through the prophetsand grant many visions;I will give parables through the prophets.
I have also spoken to the prophets, And I have multiplied visions; And by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
I spoke to the prophets; it was I who multiplied visions, and through the prophets gave parables.
I have also spoken to the prophets, And I provided many visions, And through the prophets I spoke in parables.
I spoke to the prophets and gave them many visions; through them, I taught my lessons to you."
I have also spoken to [you through] the prophets, And I gave [them] many visions [to make My will known], And through the prophets I gave parables [to appeal to your sense of right and wrong].
I haue also spoken by the Prophets, and I haue multiplied visions, and vsed similitudes by the ministerie of the Prophets.
I have also spoken to the prophets, And I gave numerous visions, And through the prophets I gave parables.
And I have spoken to the prophets,And I made visions abound,And by the hand of the prophets I gave parables.
I spoke through the prophets and multiplied their visions; I gave parables through the prophets.
"But I am Adonai your God, from the land of Egypt. Again I will make you live in tents, as in the days of the established festival.
And I have spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by means of the prophets have I used similitudes.
I spoke to the prophets and gave them many visions. I gave the prophets many ways to teach my lessons to you.
I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions and used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.
"I spoke to the prophets and gave them many visions, and through the prophets I gave my people warnings.
I spoke to the prophets; I myself multiplied revelations and through the hand of the prophets I will destroy.
I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the hand of the prophets use parables.
I have also spoken unto the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets have I used similitudes.
My word came to the ears of the prophets and I gave them visions in great number, and by the mouths of the prophets I made use of comparisons.
But I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt; I will yet again make thee to dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed season.
I haue also spoken by the prophets, and I haue multiplied visions, and vsed similitudes, by the ministerie of the prophets.
I haue spoken through the prophetes, and haue multiplied visions, & shewed similitudes by the ministerie of the prophetes.
And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.
I have also spoken unto the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets have I used similitudes.
I have also spoken to the prophets, And I have multiplied visions; And by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
And Y spak bi profetis, and Y multiplied profesie, and Y was licned in the hond of profetis.
I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the hand of the prophets I have used similitudes.
I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.
I spoke to the prophets; I myself revealed many visions; I spoke in parables through the prophets."
I have also spoken by the prophets, And have multiplied visions; I have given symbols through the witness of the prophets."
I sent my prophets to warn you with many visions and parables."
I have spoken to the men who speak for Me. I have given many special dreams. And I gave picture-stories through the men who speak for Me."
I spoke to the prophets; it was I who multiplied visions, and through the prophets I will bring destruction.
And I will lay my word upon the prophets, yea, I myself, have magnified, vision, - and, by the hand of the prophets, will I use similitudes.
And I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and I have used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.
I spoke to the prophets; it was I who multiplied visions, and through the prophets gave parables.
And I have spoken unto the prophets, And I have multiplied vision, And by the hand of the prophets I use similes.
I haue spoke thorow the prophetes, and shewed dyuerse visions, and declared my self by the ministracion of ye prophetes.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
have also: 1 Kings 13:1, 1 Kings 14:7-16, 1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 18:21-40, 1 Kings 19:10, 2 Kings 17:13, Nehemiah 9:30, Jeremiah 25:4, Amos 7:14
multiplied: Numbers 12:6, Joel 2:28, Acts 2:17, 2 Corinthians 12:1, 2 Corinthians 12:7
used: Hosea 1:2-5, Hosea 3:1, Isaiah 5:1-7, Isaiah 20:2-5, Jeremiah 13:1-14, Jeremiah 19:1, Jeremiah 19:10, Ezekiel 4:1 - Ezekiel 5:17, Ezekiel 15:1-8, Ezekiel 20:49
ministry: Heb. hand
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 10:29 - their means Jeremiah 37:2 - the prophet Jeremiah 43:9 - great Ezekiel 1:1 - I saw Ezekiel 17:2 - General Ezekiel 37:20 - in thine Acts 21:11 - he took 1 Corinthians 9:24 - they
Cross-References
The Lord said to Abram: Leave your country, your family, and your relatives and go to the land that I will show you.
I will bless you and make your descendants into a great nation. You will become famous and be a blessing to others.
I will bless anyone who blesses you, but I will put a curse on anyone who puts a curse on you. Everyone on earth will be blessed because of you.
Abram was seventy-five years old when the Lord told him to leave the city of Haran. He obeyed and left with his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and slaves they had gotten while in Haran. When they came to the land of Canaan,
Abram traveled to the hill country east of Bethel and camped between Bethel and Ai, where he built another altar and worshiped the Lord .
Finally, the king sent for Abram and said to him, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me Sarai was your wife?
So Jacob's sons joined others from Canaan who were going to Egypt because of the terrible famine.
The famine in Canaan got worse,
The famine was bad everywhere in Egypt and Canaan, and the people were suffering terribly.
Before Israel was ruled by kings, Elimelech from the tribe of Ephrath lived in the town of Bethlehem. His wife was named Naomi, and their two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. But when their crops failed, they moved to the country of Moab. And while they were there,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I have also spoken to the prophets,.... Or, "I will speak" b; for this respects not the Lord's speaking by the prophets of the Old Testament who spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost; though all they said were for the use of, and profitable unto, Christian churches; but his speaking by the apostles, prophets, and teachers, under the Gospel dispensation; by whom the doctrines of grace have been more clearly dispensed, and which are no other than the voice of Christ speaking in them; and which it is both a privilege to hear, and a duty to attend unto; see Ephesians 4:11;
and I have multiplied visions: or, "will multiply visions" c; more than under the former dispensation, as was foretold by Joel, Joel 2:28; see Acts 2:16; witness the visions of the Apostles Peter, Paul, John, and others: or this may respect the more clear sight and knowledge of Gospel truths in the times of the Messiah, then under the Mosaic economy; see 2 Corinthians 3:13;
and used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets: or, "will use similitudes" d; for this is to be understood, not of the types and figures used by the Lord under the legal dispensation, to represent spiritual things, as the brasen serpent, passover lamb, manna, and the sacrifices of the law; nor of the similitudes used by the prophet Hosea, taking a wife and children of whoredoms, to set forth the case and condition of Israel, and of the comparisons he makes of God, to a lion, leopard, bear, c. or by any other of the former prophets but of parables and similitudes used in Gospel times; not only such as Christ used himself, who seldom spoke without a parable; see Matthew 13:11; but which he used by the ministry of his apostles and prophets, and which are to be met with in their discourses and writings; see 1 Corinthians 3:6; and especially such seem to be meant that respect the conversion of the Jews, and the glory of the church in the latter day, Romans 11:16.
b ודברתי "et loquar", Piscator, Liveleus, Drusius, Cocceius, Schmidt. c חזון הרביתי "visionem multiplicabo", Vatablus, Liveleus, Drusius, Schmidt. d אדמה "assimilabo", Montanus, Schmidt; "similitudinibus utar", Castalio, Liveleus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I have also spoken by the prophets - Literally, “upon the prophets,” the revelation coming down from heaven upon them. Somewhat like this, is what Ezekiel says, “the hand of the Lord was strong upon me” (Ezekiel 3:14, ...). God declares, in what way He had been their God “from the land of Egypt.” Their ignorance of Him was without excuse, for He had always taught them, although they ever sought the false prophets, and persecuted the true. He taught them continually and in divers ways, if so be any impression might be made upon them. He taught them, either in plain words, or in the “visions” which He “multiplied” to the prophets; or in the “similitudes” or parables, which He taught through their ministry. In the “vision,” God is understood to have represented the things to come, as a picture, to the prophet’s mind, , “whether the picture were presented to his bodily eyes, or impressed on his imagination, and that, either in a dream, or without a dream.”
The “similitude,” which God says that He repeatedly, continually, used, seems to have been the parable, as when God compared His people to a vine, Himself to the Lord of the vineyard, or when He directed His prophets to do acts which should shadow forth some truth, as in the marriage of Hosea himself. God had said to Aaron, that He would thus make Himself known by the prophets. “If there be a prophet among you, I, the Lord, will make Myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all My house. With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches” Numbers 12:6-8. “The dark speech” in Moses answers to the “similitude” of Hosea; the “vision” and “dream” in Moses are comprehended in “visions,” as used by Hosea. The prophet Joel also says, “your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions” Joel 2:28. So little ground then have they, who speak of the visions of Daniel and Zechariah, as if they belonged to a later age. : “I have instructed,” God saith, “men of God, to form thee to piety, enlightening their minds with manifold knowledge of the things of God. And because the light of divine wisdom could not otherwise shine on people placed here below in the prison-house of the body, I had them taught through figures and corporeal images, that, through them, they might rise to the incorporeal, and receive some knowledge of divine and heavenly things. And thou, how didst thou requite me? How didst thou shew thy teachableness? It follows;”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 12:10. I have also spoken — I have used every means, and employed every method, to instruct and save you. I have sent prophets, who spake plainly, exhorting, warning, and beseeching you to return to me. They have had Divine visions, which they have declared and interpreted. They have used similitudes, symbols, metaphors, allegories, c., in order to fix your attention, and bring you back to your duty and interest. And, alas! all is in vain you have not profited by my condescension. This text St. Paul seems to have had full in view, when he wrote, Hebrews 1:1: "God who, at SUNDRY TIMES and in DIVERS MANNERS, spake in time past unto the FATHERS by the PROPHETS." See the note on the above.
Dr. Dodd supposes that there are three distinct kinds of prophecy mentioned here:
1. Immediate inspiration, when God declares the very words.
2. Vision; a representation of external objects to the mind, in as lively a manner as if they were conveyed by the senses.
3. Parables and apt resemblances.
