Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hosea 12:12

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12. Jacob fled . . . served —Though ye pride yourselves on the great name of "Israel," forget not that your progenitor was the same Jacob who was a fugitive, and who served for Rachel fourteen years. He forgot not ME who delivered him when fleeing from Esau, and when oppressed by Laban ( Genesis 28:5 ; Genesis 29:20 ; Genesis 29:28 ; Deuteronomy 26:5 ). Ye, though delivered from Egypt ( Deuteronomy 26:5- : ), and loaded with My favors, are yet unwilling to return to Me. country of Syria —the champaign region of Syria, the portion lying between the Tigris and Euphrates, hence called Mesopotamia. Padan-aram means the same, that is, "Low Syria," as opposed to Aramea (meaning the "high country") or Syria ( Genesis 48:7 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-13" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-hos-12-002

절 (explains)

bible-text/hos-12-12

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological