Hosea 12:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 12

⁴Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;

Hosea 12:4 —

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Cross-References

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Malachi 3:1
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
Genesis 35:15
And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.
1 Thessalonians 4:17
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Acts 7:30-35
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. …
Psalms 66:6
He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

In these verses, I. Ephraim is convicted of folly, in staying himself upon Egypt and Assyria, when he was in straits (Hos. 12:1): Ephraim feeds on wind, that is, feeds himself with vain hopes of assistance from man, when he is at variance with God; and, when he meets with disappointments, he still pursues the same game, and greedily pants and follows after the east wind, which he cannot catch holy…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. the angel--the uncreated Angel of the Covenant, as God the Son appears in the Old Testament (Mal 3:1). made supplication--Ge 32:26: “I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.” he found him--The angel found Jacob, when he was fleeing from Esau into Syria: the Lord appearing to him “in Beth-el” (Ge 28:11-19; 35:1). What a sad contrast, that in this same Beth-el now Israel worships the golden…