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But he became guilty of Baal worship and died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/hosea/13.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/hosea/13.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/hosea/13.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/hosea/13.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/hosea/13.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />When Ephraim spoke, trembling, He exalted <i>himself</i> in Israel; But when he offended through Baal <i>worship</i>, he died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/hosea/13.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />When Ephraim spoke, <i>there was</i> trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, But through Baal he incurred guilt and died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/hosea/13.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, But through Baal he did wrong and died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/hosea/13.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />When Ephraim spoke, <i>there was</i> trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, But through Baal he did wrong and died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/hosea/13.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />When Ephraim spoke, <i>there was</i> trembling. He lifted himself up in Israel, But through Baal he became guilty and died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/hosea/13.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />When Ephraim spoke, <i>there was</i> trembling <i>and</i> 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].<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/hosea/13.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal and died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/hosea/13.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal and died. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/hosea/13.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/hosea/13.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />When your leaders spoke, everyone in Israel trembled and showed great respect. But you sinned by worshiping Baal, and you were destroyed. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/hosea/13.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel: but when he offended in Baal, he died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/hosea/13.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/hosea/13.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/hosea/13.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"When the tribe of Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; and it was exalted within Israel. But when they offended God by Baal, they died,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/hosea/13.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/hosea/13.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />When Ephraim spoke, there was terror; he was exalted in Israel, but he became guilty by worshiping Baal and died. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/hosea/13.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty in Baal, he died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/hosea/13.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />When Ephraim spoke trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/hosea/13.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty through Baal, he died. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/hosea/13.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />“When Ephraim speaks tremblingly, "" He has been lifted up in Israel, "" When he becomes guilty in Ba‘al he dies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/hosea/13.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> When Ephraim speaketh tremblingly, He hath been lifted up in Israel, When he becometh guilty in Baal he dieth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/hosea/13.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />According to the word Ephraim being terrified be was lifted up in Israel; and he will transgress in Baal and die.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/hosea/13.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in Baal and died. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/hosea/13.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />While Ephraim was speaking, a horror entered Israel, and he offended by Baal, and he died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hosea/13.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />When Ephraim spoke there was terror; he was exalted in Israel; but he became guilty through Baal and died. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/hosea/13.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel; but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/hosea/13.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />WHEN Ephraim spoke, the people trembled; he became great in Israel; but when he was found guilty of Baal worship, he lost his power.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/hosea/13.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />When Aphreim was speaking he was trembling, and he was great in Israel, and he was condemned in Baal and he died<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/hosea/13.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling, He exalted himself in Israel; But when he became guilty through Baal, he died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/hosea/13.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />According to the word of Ephraim he adopted ordinances for himself in Israel; and he established them for Baal, and died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/13-1.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpPG1oLnpGk?start=1938" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/hosea/13.htm">Ephraim's Glory Vanishes</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">1</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/669.htm" title="669: ’ep̄·ra·yim (N-proper-ms) -- Dual of masculine form of 'Ephraath; double fruit; Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory.">When Ephraim</a> <a href="/hebrew/1696.htm" title="1696: kə·ḏab·bêr (Prep-k:: V-Piel-Inf) -- To speak. A primitive root; perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively, to speak; rarely to subdue.">spoke,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7578.htm" title="7578: rə·ṯêṯ (N-fs) -- A trembling. For retet; terror.">there was trembling;</a> <a href="/hebrew/1931.htm" title="1931: hū (Pro-3ms) -- He, she, it. ">he</a> <a href="/hebrew/5375.htm" title="5375: nā·śā (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- Or nacah ('abad); a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. And rel.">was exalted</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: bə·yiś·rā·’êl (Prep-b:: N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">in Israel.</a> <a href="/hebrew/816.htm" title="816: way·ye’·šam (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To offend, be guilty. Or mashem; a primitive root; to be guilty; by implication to be punished or perish.">But he incurred guilt</a> <a href="/hebrew/1168.htm" title="1168: bab·ba·‘al (Prep-b, Art:: N-proper-ms) -- Baal -- a heathen god. The same as ba'al; Baal, a Phoenician deity.">through Baal,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4191.htm" title="4191: way·yā·mōṯ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To die. A primitive root: to die; causatively, to kill.">and he died.</a> </span><span class="reftext">2</span>Now 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!”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/12-28.htm">1 Kings 12:28-30</a></span><br />After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.” / One calf he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan. / And this thing became a sin; the people walked as far as Dan to worship before one of the calves.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/16-31.htm">1 Kings 16:31-33</a></span><br />And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal. / First, Ahab set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria. / Then he set up an Asherah pole. Thus Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel before him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/17-16.htm">2 Kings 17:16-18</a></span><br />They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal. / They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. / So the LORD was very angry with Israel, and He removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/8-14.htm">Amos 8:14</a></span><br />Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/7-8.htm">Isaiah 7:8</a></span><br />For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/9-9.htm">Isaiah 9:9-10</a></span><br />All the people will know it—Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say: / “The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/31-9.htm">Jeremiah 31:9</a></span><br />They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/23-5.htm">Ezekiel 23:5-8</a></span><br />Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors / clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds. / She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/78-56.htm">Psalm 78:56-58</a></span><br />But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees. / They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow. / They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/32-15.htm">Deuteronomy 32:15-18</a></span><br />But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation. / They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations. / They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/11-20.htm">Romans 11:20-22</a></span><br />That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. / For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either. / Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-12.htm">1 Corinthians 10:12</a></span><br />So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/2-4.htm">Revelation 2:4-5</a></span><br />But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love. / Therefore, keep in mind how far you have fallen. Repent and perform the deeds you did at first. But if you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/11-23.htm">Matthew 11:23</a></span><br />And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/10-15.htm">Luke 10:15</a></span><br />And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades!</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">When Ephraim spoke trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.</p><p class="hdg">Ephraim.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/15-17.htm">1 Samuel 15:17</a></b></br> And Samuel said, When thou <i>wast</i> little in thine own sight, <i>wast</i> thou not <i>made</i> the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/18-12.htm">Proverbs 18:12</a></b></br> Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour <i>is</i> humility.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/66-2.htm">Isaiah 66:2</a></b></br> For all those <i>things</i> hath mine hand made, and all those <i>things</i> have been, saith the LORD: but to this <i>man</i> will I look, <i>even</i> to <i>him that is</i> poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.</p><p class="hdg">exalted.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/2-18.htm">Numbers 2:18-21</a></b></br> On the west side <i>shall be</i> the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim <i>shall be</i> Elishama the son of Ammihud… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/10-22.htm">Numbers 10:22</a></b></br> And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host <i>was</i> Elishama the son of Ammihud.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/13-8.htm">Numbers 13:8,16</a></b></br> Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun… </p><p class="hdg">offended.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/11-2.htm">Hosea 11:2</a></b></br> <i>As</i> they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_kings/16-29.htm">1 Kings 16:29-33</a></b></br> 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… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_kings/18-18.htm">1 Kings 18:18,19</a></b></br> 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… </p><p class="hdg">died.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/2-17.htm">Genesis 2:17</a></b></br> 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.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/romans/5-12.htm">Romans 5:12</a></b></br> 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:</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_corinthians/5-14.htm">2 Corinthians 5:14</a></b></br> For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hosea/9-10.htm">Baal</a> <a href="/hosea/7-16.htm">Ba'al</a> <a href="/hosea/9-16.htm">Death</a> <a href="/ezekiel/44-31.htm">Died</a> <a href="/ezekiel/44-31.htm">Dieth</a> <a href="/hosea/12-14.htm">Ephraim</a> <a href="/hosea/12-14.htm">E'phraim</a> <a href="/hosea/12-11.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/daniel/11-12.htm">Exalted</a> <a href="/hosea/12-14.htm">Guilt</a> <a href="/hosea/10-2.htm">Guilty</a> <a href="/ezekiel/25-12.htm">Incurred</a> <a href="/hosea/12-13.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/hosea/8-12.htm">Law</a> <a href="/ezekiel/25-12.htm">Offended</a> <a href="/daniel/10-19.htm">Speaketh</a> <a href="/daniel/5-19.htm">Trembled</a> <a href="/hosea/11-11.htm">Trembling</a> <a href="/hosea/8-1.htm">Trespassed</a> <a href="/hosea/12-4.htm">Words</a> <a href="/hosea/9-5.htm">Worship</a> <a href="/daniel/9-15.htm">Wrong</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/zephaniah/1-4.htm">Baal</a> <a href="/zephaniah/1-4.htm">Ba'al</a> <a href="/hosea/13-14.htm">Death</a> <a href="/amos/6-9.htm">Died</a> <a href="/zechariah/11-9.htm">Dieth</a> <a href="/hosea/13-12.htm">Ephraim</a> <a href="/hosea/13-12.htm">E'phraim</a> <a href="/joel/2-13.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/hosea/13-6.htm">Exalted</a> <a href="/hosea/13-12.htm">Guilt</a> <a href="/hosea/13-16.htm">Guilty</a> <a href="/acts/12-20.htm">Incurred</a> <a href="/hosea/13-9.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/amos/2-4.htm">Law</a> <a href="/matthew/11-6.htm">Offended</a> <a href="/amos/5-10.htm">Speaketh</a> <a href="/joel/2-10.htm">Trembled</a> <a href="/micah/7-17.htm">Trembling</a> <a href="/leviticus/5-19.htm">Trespassed</a> <a href="/hosea/14-2.htm">Words</a> <a href="/jonah/1-9.htm">Worship</a> <a href="/amos/5-12.htm">Wrong</a><div class="vheading2">Hosea 13</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/13-1.htm">Ephraim's glory vanishes.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/13-4.htm">God's anger.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/13-9.htm">God's mercy.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/13-15.htm">The judgment of Samaria.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The name "Ephraim" often symbolizes the entire northern kingdom due to its prominence. The phrase indicates a time when Ephraim's words commanded respect and fear, suggesting a period of political and military strength. This reflects the tribe's leadership role and its ability to influence other tribes and nations. The trembling signifies the authority and respect Ephraim held, possibly during the reigns of powerful kings like Jeroboam II.<p><b>he was exalted in Israel.</b><br>Ephraim's exaltation refers to its elevated status among the tribes of Israel. Historically, Ephraim was a leading tribe, often taking precedence in matters of national importance. This exaltation can be linked to its strategic location, fertile land, and significant population. The tribe's prominence is also seen in its association with key biblical figures, such as Joshua, who was an Ephraimite. This status, however, was not just political but also spiritual, as Ephraim was expected to lead in faithfulness to God.<p><b>But he incurred guilt through Baal,</b><br>The mention of Baal highlights the idolatry that plagued Israel. Baal worship was a significant issue, as it involved practices contrary to the worship of Yahweh. This idolatry led to moral and spiritual decline, as the Israelites adopted pagan rituals and beliefs. The guilt incurred through Baal indicates a turning away from God, violating the covenant relationship established at Sinai. This apostasy was a recurring theme in Israel's history, leading to prophetic warnings and eventual judgment.<p><b>and he died.</b><br>The death mentioned here is symbolic of spiritual death and the eventual downfall of the northern kingdom. This phrase foreshadows the Assyrian conquest and the exile of Israel in 722 BC. The spiritual death resulted from persistent idolatry and disobedience, leading to God's judgment. This serves as a warning of the consequences of turning away from God. Theologically, it underscores the principle that sin leads to death, both physically and spiritually, echoing the broader biblical narrative of sin and redemption.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/e/ephraim.htm">Ephraim</a></b><br>Ephraim was one of the tribes of Israel, often representing the Northern Kingdom as a whole. It was known for its strength and influence among the tribes.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The nation chosen by God, consisting of twelve tribes. In this context, it refers to the Northern Kingdom, which often fell into idolatry.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/b/baal.htm">Baal</a></b><br>A Canaanite deity that Israel frequently turned to in idolatry, representing a significant departure from worshiping Yahweh.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/h/hosea.htm">Hosea</a></b><br>A prophet in the 8th century BC, called by God to deliver messages of warning and hope to the Northern Kingdom of Israel.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/i/idolatry.htm">Idolatry</a></b><br>The worship of idols or false gods, which was a recurring sin for Israel and led to their downfall.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_idolatry.htm">The Danger of Idolatry</a></b><br>Idolatry leads to spiritual death and separation from God. Ephraim's exaltation turned to downfall due to their idolatry.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_influence_of_leadership.htm">The Influence of Leadership</a></b><br>Ephraim's initial influence and leadership in Israel show the power of leadership. When leaders turn away from God, they can lead others astray.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_sin.htm">The Consequences of Sin</a></b><br>Sin, particularly idolatry, has severe consequences. Ephraim's guilt led to their downfall, reminding us of the importance of repentance.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_repentance.htm">The Call to Repentance</a></b><br>Despite the judgment, God's desire is for His people to return to Him. Hosea's message is ultimately one of hope and restoration.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_faithfulness.htm">The Importance of Faithfulness</a></b><br>Faithfulness to God is crucial. Ephraim's account warns us to remain steadfast in our devotion to God, avoiding the allure of modern-day idols.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hosea_13.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hosea 13</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_genesis_49_22-26_a_failed_prophecy.htm">In Genesis 49:22–26, Joseph receives extraordinary blessings, yet historical records of his descendants (Ephraim and Manasseh) show decline—can this be viewed as a failed prophecy? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_for_idolatry_in_hosea_2_13.htm">Is there archaeological or historical evidence supporting the idolatry practices described in Hosea 2:13?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_is_god_the_only_savior_in_hosea_13_4.htm">Hosea 13:4: How can God declare 'there is no Savior besides Me' while other passages depict human saviors or mediators, seeming to contradict this exclusivity?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_there_proof_israel_worshiped_baal-peor.htm">In Hosea 9:10, is there archeological proof that Israel worshiped Baal-peor as portrayed?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hosea/13.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>XIII.</span><p>(1) There is a difference of opinion as to the construction and rendering of this verse. We adopt the interpretation, <span class= "ital">When Ephraim uttered terror, he rebelled in Israel; then he committed sin through Baal, and died.</span> 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 (<a href="/hosea/12-14.htm" title="Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood on him, and his reproach shall his LORD return to him.">Hosea 12:14</a>) may have been brought into prominence by the recent untoward antagonism aroused by the Syro-Ephraimitish war against Judah.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/13.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 1.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel.</span> This rendering of the Authorized Version <p><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> 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 <span class="accented">retheth</span>, which is an <span class="greek">ἅπαξ</span> <span class="greek">λεγόμενον</span>, 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 <p><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> 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 <span class="accented">reheth</span>, though not found elsewhere, has a cognate root in Aramaic, with the meaning here assigned to it; for <span class="hebrew">רתת</span> is to fear, shudder, tremble; there is also, in <a href="/jeremiah/49-24.htm">Jeremiah 49:24</a>, the word <span class="hebrew">רֶטֶט</span>, 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 <span class="hebrew">רתת</span> 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.'" <p><span class="note_emph">(3)</span> The LXX. renders <span class="accented">reheth</span> by <span class="greek">δικαιώματα</span>, 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. . . . <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/hosea/13-1.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">When Ephraim</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙</span> <span class="translit">(’ep̄·ra·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_669.htm">Strong's 669: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ephraim -- a son of Joseph, also his descendants and their territory</span><br /><br /><span class="word">spoke,</span><br /><span class="heb">כְּדַבֵּ֤ר</span> <span class="translit">(kə·ḏab·bêr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1696.htm">Strong's 1696: </a> </span><span class="str2">To arrange, to speak, to subdue</span><br /><br /><span class="word">there was trembling;</span><br /><span class="heb">רְתֵ֔ת</span> <span class="translit">(rə·ṯêṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7578.htm">Strong's 7578: </a> </span><span class="str2">A trembling</span><br /><br /><span class="word">he</span><br /><span class="heb">ה֖וּא</span> <span class="translit">(hū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1931.htm">Strong's 1931: </a> </span><span class="str2">He, self, the same, this, that, as, are</span><br /><br /><span class="word">was exalted</span><br /><span class="heb">נָשָׂ֥א</span> <span class="translit">(nā·śā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5375.htm">Strong's 5375: </a> </span><span class="str2">To lift, carry, take</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in Israel.</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל</span> <span class="translit">(bə·yiś·rā·’êl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> </span><span class="str2">Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc</span><br /><br /><span class="word">But he incurred guilt</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיֶּאְשַׁ֥ם</span> <span class="translit">(way·ye’·šam)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_816.htm">Strong's 816: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be guilty, to be punished, perish</span><br /><br /><span class="word">through Baal,</span><br /><span class="heb">בַּבַּ֖עַל</span> <span class="translit">(bab·ba·‘al)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b, Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1168.htm">Strong's 1168: </a> </span><span class="str2">Baal -- a heathen god</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and he died.</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיָּמֹֽת׃</span> <span class="translit">(way·yā·mōṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4191.htm">Strong's 4191: </a> </span><span class="str2">To die, to kill</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/13-1.htm">Hosea 13:1 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/hosea/13-1.htm">Hosea 13:1 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/hosea/13-1.htm">Hosea 13:1 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/hosea/13-1.htm">Hosea 13:1 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/hosea/13-1.htm">Hosea 13:1 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/13-1.htm">Hosea 13:1 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/13-1.htm">Hosea 13:1 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/13-1.htm">Hosea 13:1 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/13-1.htm">Hosea 13:1 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/hosea/13-1.htm">Hosea 13:1 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/hosea/13-1.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 13:1 When Ephraim spoke there was trembling (Ho Hs Hos.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/hosea/12-14.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 12:14"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 12:14" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/hosea/13-2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 13:2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 13:2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>