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**I loved him.** Compare [Jeremiah 2:2](../../../kjv/jeremiah/2/2) .[Malachi 1:2](../../../kjv/malachi/1/2) .
**called My son, &c.** = called to My son. Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 4:22](../../../kjv/exodus/4/22) , [Exodus 4:23](../../../kjv/exodus/4/23) ). App-92 . Quoted in [Matthew 2:15](../../../kjv/matthew/2/15) .

**they.** The callers: i.e. the prophets, &c. who called to them.
**them.** The Septuagint and Syriac read "Me".
**they.** Israel.
**sacrificed** = kept sacrificing. Compare [Hosea 2:13](../../../kjv/hosea/2/13) ; Hos 13:2 . [2 Kings 17:16](../../../kjv/2-kings/17/16) .

**I taught, &c.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 1:31](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/1/31) ; [Deuteronomy 32:10](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/10) , [Deuteronomy 32:11](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/11) , [Deuteronomy 32:12](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/12) ). Compare [Isaiah 46:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/46/3) .
**go** = walk. See [Acts 13:18](../../../kjv/acts/13/18) margin
**taking** = I used to take.
**I healed them.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 15:26](../../../kjv/exodus/15/26) ).

**I drew** = I would draw.
**man.** Hebrew. *'adam.* App-14 .
**take off** = lift up, or loosen: viz. the straps which hind the yoke to the neck.
**I laid meat** = holding out [food] to him I let him eat.

**not.** Connect this with [Hosea 11:4](../../../kjv/hosea/11/4) , for he is to return to Assyria ([Hosea 8:13](../../../kjv/hosea/8/13) ; [Hosea 9:3](../../../kjv/hosea/9/3) ).
**shall be** = he [became].

**branches.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Subject), App-6 , for "sons", as being the progeny and defenders.

**bent to backsliding.** Compare [Hosea 4:16](../../../kjv/hosea/4/16) .
**though they called them, &c.** = though they call upon the Most High.
**Most High.** Hebrew. *'al.*
**none at all would exalt Him** = He shall not altogether lift them up.

**How . . . ?** Figures of speech *Erotesis* and *Pathopoeia.* App-6 .
**Admah . . . Zeboim.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Genesis 10:19](../../../kjv/genesis/10/19) ; [Genesis 14:2](../../../kjv/genesis/14/2) , [Genesis 14:8](../../../kjv/genesis/14/8) . [Deuteronomy 29:23](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/29/23) ). App-92 . These places are not mentioned elsewhere.
**repentings** = compassions.

**I am GOD, and not man.** Figure of speech *Pleonasm* ( App-6 ): put both ways for emphasis. Reference to Pentateuch ([Numbers 23:19](../../../kjv/numbers/23/19) ). Compare [Isaiah 55:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/55/8) , [Isaiah 55:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/55/9) . [Malachi 3:6](../../../kjv/malachi/3/6) .
**GOD.** Hebrew. *'El.* App-4 .
**man.** Hebrew. *'ish* . App-14 .
**in the midst** = [will not come] into the midst. Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 33:5](../../../kjv/exodus/33/5) ). App-92 .
**enter into** = come against: i.e. as an enemy. The verse is not "nonsense", as alleged. The reference is to [Hosea 11:8](../../../kjv/hosea/11/8) .
**the city:** i.e. as I came against Sodom and Gomorrah.

**walk after** = return to. The Structure (p. 1215) shows that verses: [Hosea 11:10](../../../kjv/hosea/11/10) , [Hosea 11:11](../../../kjv/hosea/11/11) are not an "exilic insertion".
**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**He shall roar** = [when] He shall summon them with a lion's roar.
**children** = sons [of Israel].
**tremble** = come, or hasten, trembling.
**from the west.** Compare [Zechariah 8:7](../../../kjv/zechariah/8/7) .

**in their houses.** Compare [Ezekiel 28:25](../../../kjv/ezekiel/28/25) , [Ezekiel 28:26](../../../kjv/ezekiel/28/26) ; [Ezekiel 37:21](../../../kjv/ezekiel/37/21) , [Ezekiel 37:25](../../../kjv/ezekiel/37/25) .

**Ephraim compasseth Me, &c.** The Structure (p. 1221) shows the change of subject in [Hosea 11:12](../../../kjv/hosea/11/12) [Hosea 12:8](../../../kjv/hosea/12/8) , which is "incorrigibility". The chapters are badly divided here.
**with deceit.** See [Isaiah 29:13](../../../kjv/isaiah/29/13) .[Ezekiel 33:31](../../../kjv/ezekiel/33/31) .[Matthew 15:8](../../../kjv/matthew/15/8) , [Matthew 15:9](../../../kjv/matthew/15/9) . [Mark 7:6](../../../kjv/mark/7/6) , [Mark 7:7](../../../kjv/mark/7/7) .
**Judah yet ruleth, &c.** Compare [2 Chronicles 13:10-12](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/13/10-12) .
**with the saints** = with the Holy One. Hebrew, plural; so used elsewhere. Compare [Joshua 24:19](../../../kjv/joshua/24/19) . [Proverbs 30:3](../../../kjv/proverbs/30/3) .

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