Hosea 13:10

God asks where the king and rulers are who were supposed to save Israel. It exposes the failure of the human kingship they had demanded.

Cross-references · 22

• Hos 8:4They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.
• 1 Sam 8:5–6They said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
• Hos 10:3Surely now they will say, “We have no king; for we don’t fear Yahweh; and the king, what can he do for us?”
• Zech 14:9Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.
• Ps 10:16Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.
• Jer 2:28“But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.
• John 1:49Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”
• 1 Kgs 12:20When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only.
• Isa 33:22For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.
• 2 Kgs 17:4The king of Assyria found conspiracy 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 seized him, and bound him in prison.
• Deut 32:37–39He will say, “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge;
• Ps 149:2Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
• Isa 43:15I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”
• 1 Sam 8:19–20But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,
• Ps 74:12Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.
• Ps 89:18For our shield belongs to Yahweh; our king to the Holy One of Israel.
• Hos 13:4“Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no savior.
• Judg 2:16–18Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
• Ps 47:6–7Sing praises to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our King, sing praises.
• Ps 44:4You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!
• 1 Sam 12:11–12Yahweh sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you lived in safety.
• Jer 8:19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: “Isn’t Yahweh in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?”

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