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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 11:3 - 11:3
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taught ... to go - literally, “to use his feet.” Compare a similar image, Deu 1:31; Deu 8:2, Deu 8:5, Deu 8:15; Deu 32:10, Deu 32:11; Neh 9:21; Isa 63:9; Amo 2:10. God bore them as a parent does an infant, unable to supply itself, so that it has no anxiety about food, raiment, and its going forth. Act 13:18, which probably refers to this passage of Hosea; He took them by the arms, to guide them that they might not stray, and to hold them up that they might not stumble.
knew not that I healed them - that is, that My design was to restore them spiritually and temporally (Exo 15:26).