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Updated Bible Version

Hosea 12:13

And by a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Idolatry;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Moses;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hosea;   Paddan-Aram;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mo'ses;   Pa'dan-A'ram;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bring;   Calf, Golden;   Hosea;   Moses;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aram;   Eleazar ben Perata I.;   Hafá¹­arah;   Padan-Aram;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord brought Israel from Egypt by a prophet,and Israel was tended by a prophet.
Hebrew Names Version
By a prophet the LORD brought Yisra'el up out of Mitzrayim, And by a prophet he was preserved.
King James Version
And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
English Standard Version
By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was guarded.
New American Standard Bible
But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel up from Egypt, And by a prophet he was protected.
New Century Version
Later the Lord used a prophet to bring Jacob's descendants out of Egypt; he used a prophet to take care of the Israelites.
Amplified Bible
And by a prophet (Moses) the LORD brought Israel up from Egypt, And by a prophet Israel was preserved.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And by a Prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, & by a Prophet was he reserued.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel from Egypt, And by a prophet he was kept.
Legacy Standard Bible
But by a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up from Egypt,And by a prophet he was kept.
Berean Standard Bible
But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
Contemporary English Version
I sent the prophet Moses to lead Israel from Egypt and to keep them safe.
Complete Jewish Bible
Ya‘akov fled to the land of Aram. There Isra'el slaved to win a wife; for a wife he tended sheep.
Darby Translation
And by a prophet Jehovah brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
Easy-to-Read Version
But the Lord used a prophet and brought Israel out of Egypt. He used a prophet and kept Israel safe.
George Lamsa Translation
And by the prophets the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by the prophets was he preserved.
Good News Translation
The Lord sent a prophet to rescue the people of Israel from slavery in Egypt and to take care of them.
Lexham English Bible
And by a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was watched over.
Literal Translation
And by a prophet Jehovah brought up Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept safe.
American Standard Version
And by a prophet Jehovah brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
Bible in Basic English
And by a prophet the Lord made Israel come up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept safe.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
King James Version (1611)
And by a Prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a Prophet was he preserued.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
By a prophete the Lorde brought them out of Egypt, and by a prophete was he preserued.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserve.
English Revised Version
And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
World English Bible
By a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up out of Egypt, And by a prophet he was preserved.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But bi a profete the Lord ledde Israel out of Egipt, and bi a profete he was kept.
Webster's Bible Translation
And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
New English Translation
The Lord brought Israel out of Egypt by a prophet, and due to a prophet Israel was preserved alive.
New King James Version
By a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, And by a prophet he was preserved.
New Living Translation
Then by a prophet the Lord brought Jacob's descendants out of Egypt; and by that prophet they were protected.
New Life Bible
By a man who spoke for Him, the Lord brought Israel from Egypt. And by a man who spoke for Him, the Lord cared for him.
New Revised Standard
By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was guarded.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, by a prophet, Yahweh, brought up, Israel out of Egypt, - and, by a prophet, was he watched over.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But the Lord by a prophet brought Israel out of Egypt: and he was preserved by a prophet.
Revised Standard Version
By a prophet the LORD brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
Young's Literal Translation
And by a prophet hath Jehovah brought up Israel out of Egypt, And by a prophet it hath been watched.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
By a prophet the LORDE brought them out of Egipte, and by a prophet he preserued the.

Contextual Overview

7 [He is] a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself: in all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity which [would be] sin. 9 But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; I will yet again make you to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast. 10 I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the hand of the prophets I have used similitudes. 11 Is Gilead iniquity? they are altogether false; in Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks; yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field. 12 And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep]. 13 And by a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved. 14 Ephraim has provoked to anger most bitterly: therefore his blood shall be left on him, and his reproach his Lord shall return to him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hosea 13:4, Hosea 13:5, Exodus 12:50, Exodus 12:51, Exodus 13:3, 1 Samuel 12:8, Psalms 77:20, Isaiah 63:11, Isaiah 63:12, Amos 2:11, Amos 2:12, Micah 6:4, Acts 3:22, Acts 3:23, Acts 7:35-37

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:10 - General Exodus 32:1 - the man 1 Samuel 12:6 - It is the Lord 2 Kings 5:8 - and he shall Jeremiah 2:6 - brought us up Amos 9:7 - Have not Acts 7:34 - And now

Cross-References

Genesis 11:29
And Abram and Nahor took them wives: The name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
Genesis 12:3
and I will bless those that bless you, and him that curses you I will curse: and in you shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 12:5
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Genesis 12:6
And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
Genesis 12:8
And he removed from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.
Genesis 12:12
and it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see you, that they will say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save you alive.
Genesis 12:13
Say, I pray you, you are my sister; that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.
Genesis 20:2
And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She's my sister. And Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Genesis 20:5
Didn't he say to me, She's my sister? And she, even she herself said, He's my brother. In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.
Genesis 26:7
And the men of the place asked him of his wife. And he said, She's my sister. For he feared to say, My wife, because the men of the place would kill me for Rebekah since she was fair to look at.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt,.... Or, "by the prophet"; the famous and most excellent prophet Moses, who, by way of eminency, is so called; him the Lord sent, and employed, and made use of him as an instrument to bring his people out of their bondage in Egypt; in which he was a type of Christ the great Prophet of the church, raised up like unto him, and the Redeemer of his people from sin, Satan, and the world, law, hell, and death, and all enemies:

and by a prophet he was preserved; by the same prophet Moses was Israel preserved at the Red sea, and in the wilderness; where they were kept as a flock of sheep from their powerful enemies, and brought to the borders of Canaan's land. Some understand this last clause of Joshua, by whom the Israelites were safely conducted through Jordan into the land of Canaan, and settled there; and particularly were brought by him to Gilgal, where the covenant of circumcision was renewed, and the first passover in the land kept, but now a place of idolatry, as before mentioned; and which sin was aggravated by this circumstance: but the design of this observation seems to be to put the Israelites in remembrance of their low estate in Egypt, and of the goodness of God to them in delivering them from thence, which they had sadly requited by their degeneracy and apostasy from him; and to him unto them how much they ought to have valued the prophets of the Lord, though they had despised them, since they had received such benefits and blessings by the means of a prophet.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By a prophet was he preserved - Or “kept.” Jacob “kept sheep” out of love of God, sooner than unite himself with one, alien from God; his posterity “was kept” like a sheep by God, as the Psalmist said, “He led His people like sheep by the hand of Moses and Aaron” Psalms 77:20. They were “kept” from all evil and want and danger, by the direct power of God; “kept” from all the might of Pharaoh in Egypt and the Red Sea , “not through any power of their own, but by the ministry of a single prophet; “kept, in that great and terrible wilderness” Deuteronomy 8:15, wherein were “fiery serpents and scorpions and drought, where” was “no water,” but what God brought out of the rock of flint; no bread, but what he sent them from heaven.” All this, God did for them “by “a single “prophet; they” had many prophets, early and late, calling upon them in the name of God, but they would not hearken unto them.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 12:13. By a prophet (Moses) the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet (Joshua) was he preserved.] Joshua succeeded Moses, and brought the Israelites into the promised land; and when they passed the Jordan at Gilgal, he received the covenant of circumcision; and yet this same place was now made by them the seat of idolatry! How blind and how ungrateful!


 
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