Hosea 12 · Verse 10

Hosea 12:10

I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
Hosea 12:10, King James Version

Hosea 12:10 in other translations

BSBI spoke through the prophets and multiplied their visions; I gave parables through the prophets.
WEBI have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
ASVI have also spoken unto the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets have I used similitudes.
YLTAnd I have spoken unto the prophets, And I have multiplied vision, And by the hand of the prophets I use similes.
DARBYAnd I have spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by means of the prophets have I used similitudes.
BBEMy 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.
WebsterI have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.

What does Hosea 12:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
10. by ... the prophets--literally, "upon," that is, My spirit resting on them. I deposited with them My instructions which ought to have brought you to the right way. An aggravation of your guilt, that it was not through ignorance you erred, but in defiance of God and His prophets [Calvin]. Ahijah the Shilonite, Shemaiah, Iddo, Azariah, Hanani, Jehu, Elijah, Elisha, Micaiah, Joel, and Amos were "the prophets" before Hosea. visions ... similitudes--I adopted such modes of communication, adapted to man's capacities, as were calculated to arouse attention: I left no means untried to reform you. The first, second, and third chapters contain examples of "similitudes."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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, etc., 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, Heb 1:1 (note): "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 there were conveyed by the senses. 3. Parables and apt resemblances.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 12:7-14

Ephraim became a merchant: the word also signifies a Canaanite. They carried on trade upon Canaanitish principles, covetously and with fraud and deceit. Thus they became rich, and falsely supposed that Providence favoured them. But shameful sins shall have shameful punishments. Let them remember, not only what a mighty prince Jacob was with God, but what a servant he was to Laban. The benefits we have had from the…

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Hosea 12:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְדִבַּ֙רְתִּי֙ve.di.Bar.tiand I spokeH1696
עַל\־'al-toH5921
הַנְּבִיאִ֔יםha.ne.vi.'Imthe prophetsH5030
וְאָנֹכִ֖יve.'a.no.Khiand IH595
חָז֣וֹןcha.Zonvision[s]H2377
הִרְבֵּ֑יתִיhir.Bei.tiI multipliedH7235
וּבְיַ֥דu.ve.Yadand by [the] hand ofH3027
הַנְּבִיאִ֖יםha.ne.vi.'Imthe prophetsH5030
אֲדַמֶּֽה\׃'a.da.MehI gave parablesH1819

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Hosea 12:10

  • 2 Kings 17:13

    Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

  • Ezekiel 20:49

    Then said I, Ah Lord God! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?

  • Jeremiah 7:25

    Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

  • Joel 2:28

    And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

  • Jeremiah 19:1

    Thus saith the Lord, Go and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;

  • Isaiah 20:2-5

    At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. And the Lord said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

  • Amos 7:14

    Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:

  • Jeremiah 13:1-14

    Thus saith the Lord unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. So I got a girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it on my loins. And the word of the Lord came unto me the second time, saying, Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. …

  • Isaiah 5:1-7

    Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? …

  • 1 Kings 13:1

    And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the Lord unto Beth–el: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

  • Jeremiah 19:10

    Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

  • Ezekiel 4:1-5

    Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
have also.
1Ki 13:1; 14:7-16; 17:1; 18:21-40; 19:10; 2Ki 17:13; Ne 9:30
Jer 25:4; Am 7:14
multiplied.
Nu 12:6; Joe 2:28; Ac 2:17; 2Co 12:1,7
used.
1:2-5; 3:1; Isa 5:1-7; 20:2-5; Jer 13:1-14; 19:1,10; Eze 4:1-5:17
Eze 15:1-8; 20:49
ministry. Heb. hand.

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Context

  • Hosea 12:9

    And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.

  • Hosea 12:10

    I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.

  • Hosea 12:11

    Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

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Hosea 12:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Empero yo soy Jehová tu Dios desde la tierra de Egipto: aun te haré morar en tiendas, como en los días de la fiesta.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et moi, l’ Éternel ton Dieu dès le pays d’Égypte, je te ferai encore habiter sous des tentes, comme aux jours de la fête solennelle.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Ich aber bin Jehova, dein Gott, vom Lande Ägypten her; ich werde dich wieder in Zelten wohnen lassen wie in den Tagen der Festfeier.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et locutus sum super prophetas, et ego visionem multiplicavi, et in manu prophetarum assimilatus sum.