Hosea 13:1
New International Version
When Ephraim spoke, people trembled; he was exalted in Israel. But he became guilty of Baal worship and died.

New Living Translation
When the tribe of Ephraim spoke, the people shook with fear, for that tribe was important in Israel. But the people of Ephraim sinned by worshiping Baal and thus sealed their destruction.

English Standard Version
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.

Berean Standard Bible
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died.

King James Bible
When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.

New King James Version
When Ephraim spoke, trembling, He exalted himself in Israel; But when he offended through Baal worship, he died.

New American Standard Bible
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, But through Baal he incurred guilt and died.

NASB 1995
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, But through Baal he did wrong and died.

NASB 1977
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, But through Baal he did wrong and died.

Legacy Standard Bible
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He lifted himself up in Israel, But through Baal he became guilty and died.

Amplified Bible
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling and terror. He exalted himself [above the other tribes] in Israel; But through [the worship of] Baal he became guilty and died [spiritually, and then came ruin, sealing Israel’s doom as a nation].

Christian Standard Bible
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal and died.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal and died.

American Standard Version
When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
When Aphreim was speaking he was trembling, and he was great in Israel, and he was condemned in Baal and he died

Brenton Septuagint Translation
According to the word of Ephraim he adopted ordinances for himself in Israel; and he established them for Baal, and died.

Contemporary English Version
When your leaders spoke, everyone in Israel trembled and showed great respect. But you sinned by worshiping Baal, and you were destroyed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in Baal and died.

English Revised Version
When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel: but when he offended in Baal, he died.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When the tribe of Ephraim spoke, people trembled. The people of Ephraim were important in Israel. Then they became guilty of worshiping Baal, so they must die.

Good News Translation
In the past, when the tribe of Ephraim spoke, the other tribes of Israel were afraid; they looked up to Ephraim. But the people sinned by worshiping Baal, and for this they will die.

International Standard Version
"When the tribe of Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; and it was exalted within Israel. But when they offended God by Baal, they died,

JPS Tanakh 1917
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling, He exalted himself in Israel; But when he became guilty through Baal, he died.

Literal Standard Version
“When Ephraim speaks tremblingly, | He has been lifted up in Israel, | When he becomes guilty in Ba‘al he dies.

Majority Standard Bible
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died.

New American Bible
When Ephraim spoke there was terror; he was exalted in Israel; but he became guilty through Baal and died.

NET Bible
When Ephraim spoke, there was terror; he was exalted in Israel, but he became guilty by worshiping Baal and died.

New Revised Standard Version
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel; but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.

New Heart English Bible
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty in Baal, he died.

Webster's Bible Translation
When Ephraim spoke trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.

World English Bible
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty through Baal, he died.

Young's Literal Translation
When Ephraim speaketh tremblingly, He hath been lifted up in Israel, When he becometh guilty in Baal he dieth.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Ephraim's Glory Vanishes
1When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died. 2Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”…

Cross References
Judges 8:1
Then the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, "Why have you done this to us? Why did you fail to call us when you went to fight against Midian?" And they contended with him violently.

Judges 12:1
Then the men of Ephraim assembled and crossed the Jordan to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, "Why have you crossed over to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down with you inside!"

Job 29:21
Men listened to me with expectation, waiting silently for my counsel.

Job 29:22
After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.

Hosea 2:8
For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold--which they crafted for Baal.

Hosea 8:4
They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.

Hosea 11:2
But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.


Treasury of Scripture

When Ephraim spoke trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.

Ephraim.

1 Samuel 15:17
And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?

Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

Isaiah 66:2
For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

exalted.

Numbers 2:18-21
On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud…

Numbers 10:22
And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.

Numbers 13:8,16
Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun…

offended.

Hosea 11:2
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

1 Kings 16:29-33
And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years…

1 Kings 18:18,19
And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim…

died.

Genesis 2:17
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Romans 5:12
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

2 Corinthians 5:14
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

Jump to Previous
Baal Ba'al Death Died Dieth Ephraim E'phraim Evil Exalted Guilt Guilty Incurred Israel Law Offended Speaketh Trembled Trembling Trespassed Words Worship Wrong
Jump to Next
Baal Ba'al Death Died Dieth Ephraim E'phraim Evil Exalted Guilt Guilty Incurred Israel Law Offended Speaketh Trembled Trembling Trespassed Words Worship Wrong
Hosea 13
1. Ephraim's glory vanishes.
4. God's anger.
9. God's mercy.
15. The judgment of Samaria.














XIII.

(1) There is a difference of opinion as to the construction and rendering of this verse. We adopt the interpretation, When Ephraim uttered terror, he rebelled in Israel; then he committed sin through Baal, and died. This points to the revolt of the Ten Tribes, and the consequent abandonment of the pure traditions of Jehovah worship for those of Baal. This idea and that of the previous verse (Hosea 12:14) may have been brought into prominence by the recent untoward antagonism aroused by the Syro-Ephraimitish war against Judah.

Verse 1. - When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel. This rendering of the Authorized Version

(1) is supported by the Syriac, which is: "When Ephraim spake trembling, then he was, and was great in Israel." Rashi has a similar rendering of the word retheth, which is an ἅπαξ λεγόμενον, and causes the diversity of translation in this clause; but his exposition of the whole sentence is vague and unsatisfactory. Referring it to Jeroboam of the tribe of Ephraim, he explains as follows: "When Jeroboam, zealous for God, spoke against Solomon hard words, and with terror, Solomon was a great king." Pococke's exposition is in harmony with the Authorized Version, and is the following: "When Ephraim spake with fear and trembling (like his forefather Jacob, in his humble supplication to God), he exalted himself in Israel." But

(2) the rendering adopted by most moderns, is decidedly preferable, as agreeing better with the context, and much more in bar-runny with tribal characteristics of Ephraim, as intimated in this very book, and exhibited elsewhere. The translation we thus prefer is: "When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he, even he, exalted himself in Israel." Such was the fear inspired, and the deference paid to the authority of that powerful tribe. The word reheth, though not found elsewhere, has a cognate root in Aramaic, with the meaning here assigned to it; for רתת is to fear, shudder, tremble; there is also, in Jeremiah 49:24, the word רֶטֶט, equivalent to "fear," similar in both sense and sound. The Chaldee supports this rendering; its paraphrase is: "When one of the house of Ephraim spake, trembling seized the peoples." Also Aben Ezra and Kimchi. The former's brief comment is: "Before his speaking the peoples were afraid; and the word רתת has no analogue except in the Aramaic." Kimchi's explanation is, "From the beginning, before Ephraim sinned, the fear of him was great over the peoples who surrounded him; for when he spake, fear and trembling were wont to seize him who heard him; and he was great and strong among the tribes of Israel, as it was said of him, ' And his seed shall be a multitude of nations.'"

(3) The LXX. renders reheth by δικαιώματα, thus:" According to the word of Ephraim, be adopted ordinances for himself in Israel," that is, when Ephraim spoke, the rest of the Israelites assented to his ordinances and rights, reverencing his authority, so that the general sense differs little from the Chaldee. . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When Ephraim
אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ (’ep̄·ra·yim)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 669: Ephraim -- a son of Joseph, also his descendants and their territory

spoke,
כְּדַבֵּ֤ר (kə·ḏab·bêr)
Preposition-k | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

there was trembling;
רְתֵ֔ת (rə·ṯêṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7578: A trembling

he
ה֖וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

was exalted
נָשָׂ֥א (nā·śā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

in Israel.
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (bə·yiś·rā·’êl)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

But he incurred guilt
וַיֶּאְשַׁ֥ם (way·ye’·šam)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 816: To be guilty, to be punished, perish

through Baal,
בַּבַּ֖עַל (bab·ba·‘al)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1168: Baal -- a heathen god

and he died.
וַיָּמֹֽת׃ (way·yā·mōṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill


Links
Hosea 13:1 NIV
Hosea 13:1 NLT
Hosea 13:1 ESV
Hosea 13:1 NASB
Hosea 13:1 KJV

Hosea 13:1 BibleApps.com
Hosea 13:1 Biblia Paralela
Hosea 13:1 Chinese Bible
Hosea 13:1 French Bible
Hosea 13:1 Catholic Bible

OT Prophets: Hosea 13:1 When Ephraim spoke there was trembling (Ho Hs Hos.)
Hosea 12:14
Top of Page
Top of Page