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Hosea 11:5
Will they not return to the land of Egypt and be ruled by Assyria because they refused to repent?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh speaks through the prophet Hosea to Israel, juxtaposing His past deliverance with the impending political collapse that follows their refusal to repent. The words — יָשׁוּב (ya.Shuv) means he will return, and מִצְרַיִם (mitz.Ra.yim) means Egypt, framing the nation's political shift as a reversal of the Exodus. The thread — This pattern of failed repentance runs through Hosea 7:16, where Israel turns but not to God, and Hosea 8:13, where rejected worship precedes judgment, echoing the repeated warnings in 2 Kings 17:13 to abandon wicked ways. Why it lands — It requires the reader to acknowledge that political subjugation under Assyria is the direct result of refusing to repent, making divine mercy and human stubbornness mutually exclusive.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.
Cross-references
- Hosea 7:16 They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword for the cursing of their tongue; for this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.
- Hosea 8:13 Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
- 2 Kings 17:13 Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”
- Hosea 10:6 Yes, it will be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim will be seized with shame; Israel will be ashamed of its wooden idols.
- Hosea 9:3 They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
- 2 Kings 15:19 Then Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver in order to gain his support and strengthen his own grip on the kingdom.
- 2 Kings 15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.
- 2 Kings 17:3 Shalmaneser king of Assyria attacked him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.
- 2 Kings 18:11 The king of Assyria exiled the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
- Isaiah 8:6 “Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,