Hosea 12

Treated in 8 passages across the library.

  • 12:4 yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him at Beth-el, and there he spake with us, 2
  • 12:6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually. 2
  • 12:7 [He is] a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. 2
  • 12:11 Is Gilead iniquity? they are altogether false; in Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field. 1
  • 12:12 And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep]. 1

American Standard Version

  1. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    4.6 Prayer cites Hosea 12: 4

    …as pearls from the eye. Jacob wept and made supplication; and ‘had power over the angel.’ Hosea 12: 4. [3] Prayer must be fired with zeal and fervency. ‘Effectual fervent prayer availeth much…

  2. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Fifth Stage cites Hos. 12:4

    …brisk encounter, yet I must tell you, that in former times men have met with angels here, Hos. 12:4,5, have found pearls here, Matt. 13:46, and have in this place found the words of life. P…

  3. Waiting on God · Andrew Murray

    Introduction cites Hos. 12:6

    …—Lu. 12:36. . . 130 29. For the Promise of the Father.—Acts 1:4. . . 135 30. Continually.—Hos. 12:6. . . 140 31. Only.—Psa. 62:5, 6. . . 145 Note: The Power of the Holy Spirit. By W. Law. .…

  4. Waiting on God · Andrew Murray

    Continually cites Hos. 12:6

    …herefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.'—Hos. 12:6. CONTINUITY is one of the essential elements of life. Interrupt it for a single hour in a…

  5. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.10 The Tenth Commandment cites Hos 12: 7

    …deceit are in his hand, he loveth to oppress. . . . Ephraim said, ‘Yet I am become rich.’ Hos 12: 7, 8. Pope Sylvester II sold his soul to the devil for a popedom. Use. ‘Take heed and bewar…

  6. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.8 The Eighth Commandment cites Hos 12: 7

    …gave scant measure, which was plainly stealing. ‘The balances of deceit are in his hand.’ Hos 12: 7. By making their weights lighter, men make their accounts heavier. He steals in selling w…

  7. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.1 The First Commandment cites Hos 12: 11

    …e thy gods, O Judah.’ Jer 2: 28. ‘Their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.’ Hos 12: 11. (2) Such as seek to familiar spirits. This is a sin condemned by the law of God. ‘There …

  8. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    November cites Hosea 12:12

    … my inward parts.” November 22 “Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.” (Hosea 12:12) Jacob, while expostulating with Laban, thus describes his own toil, “This twenty years h…