Hosea 13:10 · KJV
“I will be thy king: where {is any other} that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? {I will...: rather, Where is thy king?}”
— Hosea 13:10
O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me {is} thine help. {is...: Heb. in thy help}
I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took {him} away in my wrath.
Hosea 13 — Context
I 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. {wild...: Heb. beast of the field}
9O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me {is} thine help. {is...: Heb. in thy help}
10I will be thy king: where {is any other} that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? {I will...: rather, Where is thy king?}
11I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took {him} away in my wrath.
12The iniquity of Ephraim {is} bound up; his sin {is} hid.
Cross References
Hosea 8:4
They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew {it} not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
1 Samuel 8:5-6
And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
Hosea 10:3
For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?
Zechariah 14:9
And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
Jeremiah 2:28
But where {are} thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for {according to} the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah. {trouble: Heb. evil}
1 Samuel 8:19-20
Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
Jeremiah 8:19
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: {Is} not the LORD in Zion? {is} not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, {and} with strange vanities? {them...: Heb. the country of them that are far off}
Judges 2:16-18
Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. {delivered: Heb. saved}