Hosea 13:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

Hosea 13:8 —

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2 Samuel 17:8
For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
Isaiah 56:9
All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
Proverbs 17:12
Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
Amos 9:1-3
I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. …
Psalms 80:13
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

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. 8)

8. “Writers on the natures of beasts say that none is more savage than a she bear, when bereaved of her whelps” [Jerome]. caul of ... heart--the membrane enclosing it: the pericardium. there--“by the way” (Ho 13:7).