Hosea Chapter 13 verse 11 Holy Bible
I have given thee a king in mine anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.
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I have given you a king, because I was angry, and have taken him away in my wrath.
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I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.
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I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.
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I have given you a king in my anger, And have taken him away in my wrath.
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I give to thee a king in Mine anger, And I take away in My wrath.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath. The imperfects אחי and אקי here are correctly explained by Keil as denoting "an action that is repeated again and again, for which we should use the present; and refer to all the kings that the kingdom of the ten tribes had received and was receiving still, and to their removal." Hitzig calls it here the historical present. Jerome, Aben Ezra, and Kimchi refer the first clause to Saul as given in anger; and the second to Zedekiah as taken away in wrath.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) Gave . . . Took.--The past tenses should be present: "I give . . ." "take away." The whole succession of Israelite kings, who generation after generation had been taken away, some by violent death, would close with Hoshea, who was to disappear as "a fragment on a stormy sea" (Hosea 10:7).