Hosea 13:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

Hosea 13:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 2:7
For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Deuteronomy 8:15
Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
Galatians 4:9
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Psalms 142:3
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

Commentary

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

(vv. 5-8)

We may observe here, 1. The plentiful provision God had made for Israel and the seasonable supplies he had blessed them with (Hos. 14:5): “ I did know thee in the wilderness, took cognizance of thy case and made provision for thee, even in a land of great drought, when thou wast in extreme distress, and when no relief was to be had in an ordinary way.” See a description of this wilderness, Deut. 8…

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

(vv. 5)

5. I did know thee--did acknowledge thee as Mine, and so took care of thee (Psa 144:3; Am 3:2). As I knew thee as Mine, so thou shouldest know no God but Me (Ho 13:4). in ... land of ... drought--(De 8:15).