Hosea 11:3 “It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms, but they…”

Hosea 11:3

It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

World English Bible

Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by their arms, but they didn’t know that I healed them.

American Standard Version

Yet I taught Ephraim to walk; I took them on my arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

Geneva Bible 1599

I ledde Ephraim also, as one shoulde beare them in his armes: but they knewe not that I healed them.

Darby Translation

And I it was that taught Ephraim to walk, — He took them upon his arms, — but they knew not that I healed them.

Young's Literal Translation

And I have caused Ephraim to go on foot, Taking them by their arms, And they have not known that I strengthened them.

Bible in Basic English

But I was guiding Ephraim's footsteps; I took them up in my arms, but they were not conscious that I was ready to make them well.

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Cross references

“taught”

Deuteronomy 1:31 Deuteronomy 8:2 Deuteronomy 32:10–12 Isaiah 46:3 Isaiah 63:9 Acts 13:18

Deuteronomy 1:31 · BSB

and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”

Deuteronomy 8:2 · BSB

Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.

Deuteronomy 32:10–12 · BSB

He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

Isaiah 46:3 · BSB

“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.

Isaiah 63:9 · BSB

In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Acts 13:18 · BSB

He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.

“I healed”

Exodus 15:26 Jeremiah 30:17 Hosea 2:8 Hosea 7:1 Hosea 14:4 Exodus 23:25

Exodus 15:26 · BSB

saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I…

Jeremiah 30:17 · BSB

But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”

Hosea 2:8 · BSB

For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold— which they crafted for Baal.

Hosea 7:1 · BSB

When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets.

Hosea 14:4 · BSB

I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.

Exodus 23:25 · BSB

So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.

Also

Hosea 7:15

Hosea 7:15 · BSB

Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.

4I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.

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