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Hosea 12

Hos. 12:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
hath also a controversy
riyb (Hebrew #7379)
from 7378; a contest (personal or legal)
KJV usage: + adversary, cause, chiding, contend(-tion), controversy, multitude (from the margin), pleading, strife, strive(-ing), suit.
Pronounce: reeb
Origin: or rib {reeb}
with Judah
Yhuwdah (Hebrew #3063)
celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
KJV usage: Judah.
Pronounce: yeh-hoo-daw'
Origin: from 3034
d, and will θpunish
paqad (Hebrew #6485)
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
KJV usage: appoint, X at all, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge, commit, count, deliver to keep, be empty, enjoin, go see, hurt, do judgment, lack, lay up, look, make, X by any means, miss, number, officer, (make) overseer, have (the) oversight, punish, reckon, (call to) remember(-brance), set (over), sum, X surely, visit, want.
Pronounce: paw-kad'
Origin: a primitive root
Jacob
Ya`aqob (Hebrew #3290)
heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
KJV usage: Jacob.
Pronounce: yah-ak-obe'
Origin: from 6117
according to his ways
derek (Hebrew #1870)
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
KJV usage: along, away, because of, + by, conversation, custom, (east-)ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-)way(-side), whither(-soever).
Pronounce: deh'-rek
Origin: from 1869
; accordinge to his doings
ma`alal (Hebrew #4611)
an act (good or bad)
KJV usage: doing, endeavour, invention, work.
Pronounce: mah-al-awl'
Origin: from 5953
will he recompense
shuwb (Hebrew #7725)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Pronounce: shoob
Origin: a primitive root
him.
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Mic. 6:2• 2Hear, ye mountains, Jehovah's controversy, and ye, unchanging foundations of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel. (Mic. 6:2)
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visit upon.
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Gal. 6:7‑8• 7Be not deceived: God is not mocked; for whatever a man shall sow, that also shall he reap.
 8For he that sows to his own flesh, shall reap corruption from the flesh; but he that sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit shall reap eternal life: (Gal. 6:7‑8)

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Jacob,
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Ministry on This Verse

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a controversy.
Hos. 4:1• 1Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land; for there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. (Hos. 4:1)
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Jer. 25:31• 31The noise shall come to the end of the earth: for Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations, he entereth into judgment with all flesh; as for the wicked, he will give them up to the sword, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 25:31)
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Mic. 6:2• 2Hear, ye mountains, Jehovah's controversy, and ye, unchanging foundations of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel. (Mic. 6:2)
and will.
2 Kings 17:19‑20• 19Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made.
 20And Jehovah rejected all the seed of Israel; and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. (2 Kings 17:19‑20)
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Isa. 8:7‑8• 7therefore behold, the Lord will bring up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory; and he shall mount up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
 8and he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow it and go further, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel! (Isa. 8:7‑8)
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Isa. 10:6• 6I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge; to take the spoil, and to seize the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. (Isa. 10:6)
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Jer. 3:8‑11• 8And I saw that when for all the causes wherein backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, yet the treacherous Judah, her sister, feared not, but went and committed fornication also.
 9And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication that she polluted the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
 10And even for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, saith Jehovah.
 11And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath shewn herself more just than treacherous Judah. (Jer. 3:8‑11)
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Ezek. 23:11‑21• 11And her sister Oholibah saw this, and was more corrupt in her passion than she, and in her fornications more than the whoredoms of her sister.
 12She lusted after the children of Asshur her neighbours, governors and rulers, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them attractive young men.
 13And I saw that she was defiled: both took one way.
 14And she increased her fornications; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
 15girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them captains in appearance, after the likeness of the children of Babylon, of Chaldea, the land of their nativity.
 16And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted after them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
 17And the children of Babylon came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their fornication; she too defiled herself with them, and her soul was alienated from them.
 18And she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness; and my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.
 19Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she played the harlot in the land of Egypt;
 20and she lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is as the issue of horses.
 21And thou didst look back to the lewdness of thy youth, in the handling of thy teats by the Egyptians, for the breasts of thy youth. (Ezek. 23:11‑21)
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Ezek. 23:31‑32• 31Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; and I have given her cup into thy hand.
 32Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large; thou shalt be for a laughing-stock and a derision, for it containeth much. (Ezek. 23:31‑32)
punish.
Heb. visit upon.
Hos. 2:13• 13And I will visit upon her the days of the Baals, wherein she burned incense to them, and decked herself with her rings and jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith Jehovah. (Hos. 2:13)
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Hos. 8:13• 13They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; Jehovah hath no delight in them. Now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. (Hos. 8:13)
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Hos. 9:9• 9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. (Hos. 9:9)
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Isa. 10:12• 12And it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stoutness of heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. (Isa. 10:12)
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Isa. 24:21• 21And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. (Isa. 24:21)
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Isa. 24•  (Isa. 24)
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according to his doings.
Isa. 3:11• 11Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him. (Isa. 3:11)
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Isa. 59:18• 18According to deeds, so will he repay: fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence. (Isa. 59:18)
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Matt. 16:27• 27For the Son of man is about to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to each according to his doings. (Matt. 16:27)
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Rom. 2:6• 6who shall render to each according to his works: (Rom. 2:6)
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Gal. 6:7• 7Be not deceived: God is not mocked; for whatever a man shall sow, that also shall he reap. (Gal. 6:7)
• Jacob is brought in not only as guilty in his sons, but personally as an object of divine dealing in order to counsel the people now. (“Hosea 12” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Jehovah hath also a controversy with Judah, and he will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.