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Hosea 12:10
I spoke through the prophets and multiplied their visions; I gave parables through the prophets.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Israel through the prophet Hosea, positioning Himself as the source of revelation while contrasting His past deliverance from Egypt with His present warnings.
The words — The verb דִּבַּרְתִּי (di.bar.ti) means "I spoke," and the phrase חָזוֹן הִרְבֵּיתִי (cha.zon hir.bei.ti) translates literally as "I multiplied visions."
The thread — The pattern of divine communication through prophets appears in 2 Kings 17:13, where the Lord warns Israel and Judah through them. Isaiah 20:2 similarly records the Lord speaking through Isaiah to deliver a direct command.
Why it lands — The text asserts that God actively initiates prophetic revelation and uses both visionary and parabolic forms to convey His message. It requires the reader to recognize that prophetic communication originates from God's deliberate action, not human invention.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
Cross-references
- 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.”
- Ezekiel 20:49 Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, they are saying of me, ‘Is he not just telling parables?’”
- Isaiah 20:2 the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet.” And Isaiah did so, walking around naked and barefoot.
- Jeremiah 7:25 From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.
- Jeremiah 19:1 This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,
- Joel 2:28 And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
- Numbers 12:6 He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.
- 1 Kings 13:1 Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD.
- 1 Kings 14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over My people Israel.
- 1 Kings 17:1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”