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Myles Coverdale Bible

Hosea 12:5

Yee the LORDE God of hoostes, euen ye LORDE him self remembred him:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Christ Is God;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Bethel;   Jehovah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bethel;   Hosea;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - First and Last ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Feed;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - The Angel of the Lord;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hosea;   Memorial;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Angelology;   Jacob;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord is the God of Armies;the Lord is his name.
Hebrew Names Version
Even the LORD, the God Tzva'ot,; The LORD is his name of renown!
King James Version
Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord is his memorial.
English Standard Version
the Lord , the God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial name:
New American Standard Bible
And the LORD, the God of armies, The LORD is His name.
New Century Version
It was the Lord God All-Powerful; the Lord is his great name.
Amplified Bible
Even the LORD, the God of hosts, The name of Him [who spoke with Jacob] is the LORD.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Yea, the Lorde God of hostes, the Lorde is himselfe his memoriall.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Even the LORD, the God of hosts, The LORD is His name.
Legacy Standard Bible
Even Yahweh, the God of hosts,Yahweh is His name of remembrance.
Berean Standard Bible
the LORD is the God of Hosts-the LORD is His name of renown.
Contemporary English Version
God's name is the Lord , the Lord God All-Powerful.
Complete Jewish Bible
Yes, he fought with an angel and won; he wept and pleaded with him. Then at Beit-El he found him, and there he would [later] speak with us —
Darby Translation
—even Jehovah, the God of hosts,—Jehovah is his memorial.
Easy-to-Read Version
Yes, Yahweh is the God of the armies. His name is Yahweh .
George Lamsa Translation
Even the LORD the God of hosts has remembered him.
Good News Translation
This was the Lord God Almighty—the Lord is the name by which he is to be worshiped.
Lexham English Bible
Yahweh the God of hosts, Yahweh is his renowned name!
Literal Translation
even Jehovah, the God of Hosts. Jehovah is His memorial.
American Standard Version
even Jehovah, the God of hosts; Jehovah is his memorial name.
Bible in Basic English
Even the Lord, the God of armies; the Lord is his name.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So he strove with an angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him; at Beth-el he would find him, and there he would speak with us;
King James Version (1611)
Euen the Lord God of hosts, the Lord is his memoriall.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yea the Lorde God of hoastes, euen the Lorde himselfe remembred him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.
English Revised Version
even the LORD, the God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.
World English Bible
Even Yahweh, the God of hosts; Yahweh is his name of renown!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord God of oostis, the Lord, is the memorial of hym.
Update Bible Version
even Yahweh, the God of hosts; Yahweh is his memorial [name].
Webster's Bible Translation
Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD [is] his memorial.
New English Translation
As for the Lord God Almighty, the Lord is the name by which he is remembered!
New King James Version
That is, the LORD God of hosts. The LORD is His memorable name.
New Living Translation
the Lord God of Heaven's Armies, the Lord is his name!
New Life Bible
This was the Lord, the God of All. The Lord is His name.
New Revised Standard
The Lord the God of hosts, the Lord is his name!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, Yahweh, is God of host, - Yahweh, is his memorial.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Even the Lord God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial.
Revised Standard Version
the LORD the God of hosts, the LORD is his name:
Young's Literal Translation
Even Jehovah, God of the Hosts, Jehovah [is] His memorial.

Contextual Overview

1 Ephraim kepeth the ayre, and foloweth after the east wynde: he is euer increasinge lyes & destruction. They be confederate with the Assirians, their oyle is caried in to Egipte. 2 The LORDE hath a courte to holde with Iuda, and wil punysh Iacob: After their owne waies and acordinge to their owne inuencions, shal he recompence them. 3 He toke his brother by the hele, when he was yet in his mothers wombe: and in his strength he wrestled with God. 4 He stroue with the Angel, and gat the victory: so that he prayde and desyred him. He fande him at Bethel, & there he talked wt vs. 5 Yee the LORDE God of hoostes, euen ye LORDE him self remembred him: 6 Then turne to thy God, kepe mercy and equyte, and hope still in thy God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Even: Genesis 28:16, Genesis 32:30

is: Exodus 3:15, Psalms 135:13, Isaiah 42:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 28:19 - the name Genesis 48:16 - Angel Exodus 3:2 - angel Numbers 22:22 - and the angel Judges 13:21 - knew Job 16:20 - poureth Ecclesiastes 5:6 - before Zechariah 3:1 - the angel

Cross-References

Genesis 10:19
And ye Coastes of ye Cananites were fro Sido forth thorow Gerar vnto Gasa, tyll thou comest vnto Sodoma, Gomorra, Adama, Zeboim, & vnto Lasa.
Genesis 11:31
Then toke Terah Abra his sonne, & Lot his sonne Harans sonne, & Sarai his doughter in lawe, his sonne Abrams wife, & caried them wt him from Vr in Chaldea, to go in to the lande of Canaan. And they came to Haran, & dwelt there.
Genesis 12:5
So Abram toke Sarai his wife, and Lot his brothers sonne, wt all their goodes which they had gotten, and soules which they begat in Hara, and departed to go in to ye londe of Canaan.
Genesis 12:8
The brake he vp fro thece, vnto a mountayne yt laye on ye east syde of the cite of Bethel, & pitched his tent: so yt he had Bethel on the west side, and Ay on ye east syde: & there buylded he an altare also vnto the LORDE, & called vpon the name of the LORDE.
Genesis 12:9
Afterwarde departed Abram farther, & toke his iourneye southwarde.
Genesis 14:14
Now whan Abram herde yt his brother was taken, he harnessed his bonde seruauntes borne in his owne house, thre hundreth & eightene, & folowed after them vntill Dan,
Genesis 14:21
Then sayde the kynge of Sodome vnto Abram: Geue me the soules, and take ye goodes vnto thy self.
Acts 7:4
The wente he out of the lande of the Caldees, and dwelt in Haran. And from thece, whan his father was deed, he brought him ouer in to this londe (where ye dwell now)

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Even the Lord God of hosts,.... The God Jacob had power over, the Angel he prevailed with, to whom he made supplication with weeping, and who spake with him and his in Bethel, is he whose name is Jehovah; who is the true and living God, the Lord of hosts and armies both in heaven and in earth; of all the angels in heaven, and the legions of them; and of the church militant, and all the saints, who are the good soldiers of Christ, his spiritual militia; and he is the Captain of the Lord's host, and of their salvation, and to whom all the numerous hosts of creatures, be they what they will, are subject: this is observed, to set off the greatness of the person Jacob wrestled with, and his wondrous grace, in condescending to be overpowered by him:

the Lord [is] his memorial: or his name, Jehovah, which belongs to this angel, the Son of God, as to his divine Father; and which is expressive of his divine existence, of his eternity and immutability; this is his memorial, or the remembrancer of him; which puts his people in all ages in remembrance of him, what he is, what an infinite, almighty, and all sufficient Being he is; and he is always to be believed in, and trusted to, and to be served, adored, and worshipped. The Targum adds, to every generation and generation.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Even the Lord God of Hosts, the Lord is His memorial - The word, here as translated and written Lord, is the special and, so to say, the proper Name of God, that which He gave to Himself, and which declares His Being. God Himself authoritatively explained its meaning. When Moses inquired of Him, what he should say to Israel, when they should ask him, “what is the Name of the God of their fathers,” who, he was to tell them, had sent him to them, “God said ... I Am That I Am ... thus shalt thou say, I Am” (EHYeH) “hath sent me unto you; and God said again unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord” (literally, He is, YeHeWeH , “God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you; This is My Name forever, and this is My memorial unto all generations” Exodus 3:13-15.

I am, expresses self-existence; He who alone is. I am that I am, expresses His unchangeableness, the necessary attribute of the Self-existent, who, since He is, ever is all which He is. “To Be,” says Augustine , “is a name of unchangeableness. For all things which are changed, cease to be what they were, and begin to be what they were not. True Being, pure Being, genuine Being, no one hath, save He who changeth not. He hath Being to whom it is said, “Thou shalt change them and they shall be changed, but Thou art the Same.” What is, I am that I am, but, I am Eternal? What is, I am that I am, save, I cannot be changed? No creature, no heaven, no earth, no angel, “nor Power, nor Throne, nor Dominion, nor Principality.” This then being the name of eternity, it is somewhat more, than He vouchsafed to him a name of mercy, “I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob. That,” He is in Himself, “this,” to us.

If he willed only to be That which he is in Himself, what should we be? Since Moses understood, when it was said to him, I am that I am, He who is hath sent me unto you, he believed that this was much to people, he saw that this was far removed from people. For whose hath understood, as he ought, That which is, and which truly is, and, in whatever degree, hath even transiently, as by a lightning flash, been irradiated by the light of the One True Essence, sees himself far below, in the utmost farness of removal and unlikeness.” This, the Self-existent, the Unchangeable, was the meaning of God’s ancient Name, by which He was known to the patriarchs, although they had not in act seen His unchangeableness, for theirs was a life of faith, hoping for what they saw not. The word, He is, when used of Him by His creatures, expresses the same which He says of Himself, I AM. This He willed to be “His memorial forever.” This the way in which He willed that we should believe in Him and think of Him as He who is, the Self-existing, the Self-Same.

The way of pronouncing that Name is lost . The belief has continued, wherever the Lord is named. For by the Lord we mean the Unchangeable God. That belief is contradicted, whenever people use the name “Jehovah,” to speak of God, as though the belief in Him under the Old Testament differed from that of the New Testament. Perhaps God allowed it to be lost, that people might not make so familiar with it, as they do with the word “Jehovah,” or use it irreverently and in an anti-Christian manner, as some now employ other ways of pronouncing it. The Jews, even before the time of our Lord, ordinarily ceased to pronounce it. In the translations of the Old Testament, and in the Apocrypha, the words, “the Lord,” were substituted for it. Jewish tradition states, that in later times the Name was pronounced in the temple only, by the priests, on pronouncing the blessing commanded by God in the law . On the great Day of Atonement, it was said that the high priest pronounced it ten times , and that when the people heard it, they fell on their faces, saying, “Blessed be the glorious name of His kingdom forever and ever” . They say, however, that in the time of Simeon the Just (i. e., ), Jaddua, who died about 322 b.c., the high priests themselves disused it, for fear of its being pronounced by some irreverent person .

Our Lord Himself sanctioned I the disuse of it, (as did the inspired Apostles yet more frequently,) since, in quoting places of the Old Testament in which it occurs, He uses instead of it the Name, “the Lord” . It stands, throughout the Old Testament, as the Name which speaks of God in relation to His people, that He ever is; and, since He ever is, then He is unchangeably to us, all which He ever was, “The Same, yesterday and today and forever” Hebrews 13:8.

He then who appeared to Jacob, and who, in Jacob, spake to all the posterity of Jacob, was God; whether it was (as almost all the early fathers thought ), God the Son, who thus appeared in human form to the patriarchs, Moses, Joshua, and in the time of the Judges, under the name of “the Angel of the Lord,” or whether it was the Father. God Almighty thus accustomed man to see the form of Man, and to know and believe that it was God. He it was, the prophet explains, “the Lord,” i. e., the Self existent, the Unchangeable, “Who was, and is and is to come” Revelation 1:4, Revelation 1:8, who alone is, and from whom are all things , “the Fullness of Being, both of His own, and of all His creatures, the boundless Ocean of all which is, of wisdom, of glory, of love, of all good.”

The Lord of Hosts - that is, of all things visible and invisible, of the angels and heavenly spirits, and of all things animate and inanimate, which, in the history of the Creation, are called “the host of heaven and earth” Genesis 2:1, the one host of God. This was the way in which He willed to be had in mind, thought of, remembered. On the one hand then, as relates to Ephraim’s sin, not by the calves, nor by any other created thing, did He will to be represented to people’s minds or thoughts. On the other hand, as relates to God’s mercies, since He, who revealed Himself to Jacob, was the unchangeable God, Israel had no cause to fear, if he returned to the faith of Jacob, whom God there accepted. Whence it follows;

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 12:5. The Lord is his memorial. — He is the same God as when Jacob so successfully wrestled with him.


 
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