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I have also spoken to the prophets, And I provided many visions, And through the prophets I spoke in parables.
Hosea 12:10 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
  • KJV I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
  • BSB I spoke through the prophets and multiplied their visions; I gave parables through the prophets.
  • NKJV I have also spoken by the prophets, And have multiplied visions; I have given symbols through the witness of the prophets.”
  • NLT I sent my prophets to warn you with many visions and parables.”

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Quick answer

God has spoken to Israel through many prophets, visions, and parables. It affirms that the people were not left without clear divine warning.

Overview

The Lord patiently sent revelation through a succession of prophets, leaving Israel fully accountable. The variety of visions and parables shows the richness and persistence of God's communication. Their continued rebellion against such abundant warning deepens their guilt and magnifies God's longsuffering.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 25

  • 2 Kgs 17:13Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, “Turn 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.”
  • Ezek 20:49Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’”
  • Jer 7:25Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
  • Isa 20:2–5at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your shoes from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot.
  • Jer 19:1Thus said Yahweh, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;
  • Joel 2:28“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.
  • Isa 5:1–7Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
  • 1 Kgs 17:1Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
  • 2 Cor 12:1It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
  • Hos 1:2–5When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”
  • Amos 7:14Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
  • Jer 13:1–14Yahweh says to me, “Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water.”
  • Ezek 15:1–8Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
  • Acts 2:17‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.
  • Jer 19:10“Then you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with you,
  • Neh 9:30Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet would they not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
  • Num 12:6He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.
  • Hos 3:1Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”
  • 1 Kgs 13:1Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by Yahweh’s word to Beth El; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.
  • 2 Cor 12:7By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
  • 1 Kgs 18:21–40Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.
  • 1 Kgs 19:10He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
  • Jer 25:4Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them (but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear)
  • Ezek 4:1–5“You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem.
  • 1 Kgs 14:7–16Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,

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Christ at the center

God's relentless love for an unfaithful bride dramatizes the gospel: 'Out of Egypt I called my son' is fulfilled in Jesus, who redeems an adulterous people at his own cost.

How Hosea 12:10 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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