Parallel Verses English Standard Version Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities? Where are all your rulers— those of whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”? King James Bible I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? American Standard Version Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges, of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? Douay-Rheims Bible Where is thy king? now especially let him save thee in all thy cities: and thy judges, of whom thou saidst: Q Give me kings and princes. English Revised Version Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges, of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? Webster's Bible Translation I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? Hosea 13:10 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament"And it comes to pass in that day, I will hear, is the word of Jehovah; I will hear heaven, and it hears the earth. And the earth will hear the corn, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will hear Jezreel (God sows)." God will hear all the prayers that ascend to Him from His church (the first אענה is to be taken absolutely; compare the parallel in Isaiah 58:9), and cause all the blessings of heaven and earth to flow down to His favoured people. By a prosopopeia, the prophet represents the heaven as praying to God, to allow it to give to the earth that which is requisite to ensure its fertility; whereupon the heaven fulfils the desires of the earth, and the earth yields its produce to the nation. (Note: As Umbreit observes, "It is as though we heard the exalted harmonies of the connected powers of creation, sending forth their notes as they are sustained and moved by the eternal key-note of the creative and moulding Spirit.") In this way the thought is embodied, that all things in heaven and on earth depend on God; "so that without His bidding not a drop of rain falls from heaven, and the earth produces no germ, and consequently all nature would at length be barren, unless He gave it fertility by His blessing" (Calvin). The promise rests upon Deuteronomy 28:12, and forms the antithesis to the threat in Leviticus 26:19 and Deuteronomy 28:23-24, that God will make the heavens as brass, and the earth as iron, to those who despise His name. In the last clause the prophecy returns to its starting-point with the words, "Hear Jezreel." The blessing which flows down from heaven to earth flows to Jezreel, the nation which "God sows." The name Jezreel, which symbolizes the judgment about to burst upon the kingdom of Israel, according to the historical signification of the name in Hosea 1:4, Hosea 1:11, is used here in the primary sense of the word, to denote the nation as pardoned and reunited to its God. This is evident from the explanation given in Hosea 2:23 : "And I sow her for myself in the land, and favour Unfavoured, and say to Not-my-people, Thou art my people; and it says to me, My God." זרע does not mean "to strew," or scatter (not even in Zechariah 10:9; cf. Koehler on the passage), but simply "to sow." The feminine suffix to זרעתּיה refers, ad sensum, to the wife whom God has betrothed to Himself for ever, i.e., to the favoured church of Israel, which is now to become a true Jezreel, as a rich sowing on the part of God. With this turn in the guidance of Israel, the ominous names of the other children of the prophet's marriage will also be changed into their opposite, to show that mercy and the restoration of vital fellowship with the Lord will now take the place of judgment, and of the rejection of the idolatrous nation. With regard to the fulfilment of the promise, the remarks made upon this point at Hosea 1:11 and Hosea 2:1 (pp. 33, 34), are applicable here, since this section is simply a further expansion of the preceding one. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge I will be thy king. or, Where is thy king? King Hosea being then in prison, . Psalm 10:16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. Psalm 44:4 You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. Psalm 47:6,7 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises to our King, sing praises... Psalm 74:12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the middle of the earth. Psalm 89:18 For the LORD is our defense; and the Holy One of Israel is our king. Isaiah 43:15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. where. Deuteronomy 32:37-39 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted... thy judges. Hosea 8:4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not... Cross References 1 Samuel 8:5 and said to him, "Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations." 1 Samuel 8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." And Samuel prayed to the LORD. 2 Kings 17:4 But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison. Hosea 3:4 For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods. Hosea 7:7 All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls upon me. Hosea 8:4 They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction. Jump to Previous Cause Cities Defend Destroyed Heads Help Ho Israel Judges Princes Requested Rulers Save Saviour Thyself TownsJump to Next Cause Cities Defend Destroyed Heads Help Ho Israel Judges Princes Requested Rulers Save Saviour Thyself TownsLinks Hosea 13:10 NIVHosea 13:10 NLT Hosea 13:10 ESV Hosea 13:10 NASB Hosea 13:10 KJV Hosea 13:10 Bible Apps Hosea 13:10 Biblia Paralela Hosea 13:10 Chinese Bible Hosea 13:10 French Bible Hosea 13:10 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. 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