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Hosea utilizes rapid fire allusions and metaphors in this chapter and it is a great example of the poetic structure that prophecy can take. Verses 4-11 work on an ABCBA structure, invoking (A) an historical allusion followed by (B) an admonishment then followed by (C) a punishment then back to an (B) admonishment then (C) an historical allusion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In verse 4, Hosea paraphrases the first of the Ten Commandments \u201cI am the LORD your God since the land of Egypt, and you should not have known any gods besides me\u201d the prophet calls out. The northern tribes have not even been able to follow the very first commandment. Hosea continues this allusion in verse 5 by referencing the Israelite wanderings through the wilderness, and how God was with them at that time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He then shifts to admonishing the people in verse 6 for becoming complacent when they entered the land. When the people needed God in the wilderness they were close to him, but now peacefully in their land they forgot him. As a punishment, in verses 7-8 God will turn this seemingly peaceful land against them unleashing the lions, and leopards, and bears (oh my!) against the people. Hosea then switches to the admonishment in verse 9- the people have brought this on themselves. They rebelled against God. Finally in verse 10 and 11, God alludes to the beginning of the Israelite time in the land of Israel, when they cried out for a king against the wishes of God and the prophet Samuel. \u201cWhere is this king that you wanted? He will not be able to save you,\u201d the prophet warns.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In 8:4, God had Hosea speak out against the Israelite monarchy, saying: \u201cThey have made kings, but not with My sanction.\u201d Here, he reiterated the antimonarchic position, first saying sarcastically: \u201cWhere is your king now? Let him save you\u201d (10) and following up with an even more biting reproof: \u201cI gave you kings in My ire and take them away in My wrath\u201d (11). Was it the very institution to which God took exception, or its misappropriation by specific kings? (See <\/span>our comments to 1 Samuel 8<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The commentators viewed God\u2019s displeasure as a reflection on the inception of Israelite monarchy. While Rashi is silent here, his student Yosef Kara, whose commentary usually parallels that of his teacher, observed:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I gave you your first king, Saul, in my anger, to wit: \u201cGod said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people whatsoever they will tell you; they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as a ruler over them\u201d (1 Samuel 8:7). \u201cAnd take them away in My wrath\u201d refers to the last king, Zedekiah, to wit: \u201cThey put out Zedekiah\u2019s eyes\u201d (2 Kings 25:7).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ibn Ezra agreed with the first part of Kara\u2019s interpretation, namely its reference to Saul, but did not explicitly designate the subject of the second part of the verse. Radak, too, referred the first half to Saul\u2014citing the same proof text\u2014and even relayed the designation of Zedekiah, albeit anonymously, and then added yet another anonymous interpretation to the effect that the kings in question are not Judean but Ephraimite; the first was Jeroboam, and the last was Hosea ben Elah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, Radak anticipated a challenge on our part: While the inauguration of the Israelite monarchy with Saul was at popular request and may rightly be viewed as a rejection of God\u2019s rulership, it was God Himself who initiated the Ephraimite monarchy and it was He (via the prophet Ahijah HaShiloni) who chose Jeroboam. How, then, can it be called His \u201cire\u201d? Radak answered: \u201cJeroboam\u2019s appointment was a consequence of God\u2019s anger at Judah.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In a similar vein, Malbim raised the challenge that Hosea ben Elah was reported to have been a good king, so what \u201canger\u201d caused his removal? His answer: \u201cIt was not due to his conduct, but to God\u2019s anger over the general situation. Because God was angry at the general population, He removed Hosea even though he had not [individually] incurred His anger.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Chapter 12 presented God's lawsuit against the Jewish people, and chapter 13 announces its verdict \u2013 the downfall and destruction of the northern kingdom - culminating with the first verse of chapter 14, \"Samaria will be laid waste, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their infants will be dashed and their pregnant women split open.\"\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The first two verses summarize Ephraim's disloyal past and present \u2013 \"When Ephraim spoke there was trembling \u2026 he became guilty through Baal \u2026 Now they continue to sin\". The third verse describes Ephraim's future. The northern kingdom will simply disappear, like the morning dew that evaporates in the heat of the sun, leaving no remnant or trace on the ground. Hosea used the same metaphor earlier to describe the fleeting nature of Israel's love, so shallow that it fades away like early morning moisture. Such irony - or <\/span>middah keneged middah\u00a0<\/span><\/em>(measure for measure). Their relationships were all shallow and fleeting, without any sense of permanence \u2013 and so too will be their end.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hosea continues with a description of Israel as a flock that has been abandoned by its protector. Suddenly, the flock finds themselves open and exposed to the ravenous creatures that surround it \u2013 even worse, Hosea uses the image of the shepherd that transforms into lions, leopards, bears. Not only will God abandon them to their fate, God promises to actively pursue the nation to destroy them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps the most fascinating metaphor that Hosea uses to describes the stubbornness and obstinacy of the people, and their failure to embrace the changes that they need to make in their lives - is that of an unborn child \u2013 \"Pangs of a woman in confinement shall come to him: he is an unwise son, for it is a time that he shall not stand in the birth stool of the children.\" The commentators generally interpret the metaphor to refer to the pain of childbirth (Rashi) or the failure of the recent generations to learn from previous mistakes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, the simplest understanding is as follows: the prophet states that the time for birth has arrived, but the child, fearful of the danger of the passage and the uncertainty of the world outside the womb chooses to remain in the womb, where he\/she believes there is safety and comfort. Why risk change and the opportunity for a new life and existence, when the present one is so comfortable?\u00a0 Better to stay in the womb, even to die there, then to come out into the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Obviously this child (or anyone afraid of making changes that are necessary for survival) with its desire to hold onto the past, no matter how destructive, has no future to look forward 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Chapter 13 of Hosea predicts terrible punishments for the Kingdom of Israel:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cEphraim\u2019s guilt is bound up, his sin is stored away. Pangs of childbirth assail him, and the babe is not wise\u2014 for this is no time to survive at the birthstool of babes. From Sheol itself I will save them, redeem them from very Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Your pestilence where, O Sheol? Revenge shall be far from My thoughts.\u201d (Hosea 13:12-14).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The commentaries debate about whether these are direct statements, or rhetorical questions. In other words, is God stating \u201cFrom Sheol itself I will save them\u201d or asking rhetorically, \u201cFrom Sheol itself will I save them?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Similarly, the questions \u201cWhere, O Death, are your plagues? Your pestilence where, O Sheol?\u201d may be either be questioning Death and Sheol, asking where are the plagues that Israel deserves, or it may be a challenge to Death and Sheol, indicating that God will save the people from those punishments.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In either case, Death is associated with plagues \u2013 <\/span>dever\u00a0<\/span><\/em>and Sheol (the place that souls descend to after death), is associated with pestilence \u2013 <\/span>kotev<\/span><\/em>. The meaning of <\/span>kotev<\/span><\/em>\u00a0(in other verses also appearing as <\/span>ketev<\/span><\/em>), isn\u2019t fully clear. While some interpretations say it means \u201cpestilence,\u201d others offer \u201cdestruction,\u201d or even a kind of demon (as it appears later in Talmudic Hebrew).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Linguists say that the name originates from the concept of \u201ccutting off.\u201d In other Semitic languages, cognate words mean \u201ccut off\u201d as well as \u201carrow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A parallel between arrows and <\/span>ketev<\/span><\/em>\u00a0can be found in Psalms as well: \u201cYou need not fear the terror by night, or the <\/span>arrow<\/span> that flies by day, the plague that stalks in the darkness, or the <\/span>scourge<\/span> ketev<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>that ravages at noon\u201d (Psalms 91:5-6)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There are other Hebrew roots beginning with the same two letters <\/span>kt<\/span><\/em>\u00a0that also mean \u201ccut,\u201d such as <\/span>kataf<\/span><\/em>, <\/span>kat\u2019a<\/span><\/em>, and <\/span>katan<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

As we mentioned, the Arabic word for \u201carrow\u201d \u2013 <\/span>qutbah<\/span><\/em>\u00a0is cognate with this Hebrew root. Another Arabic word, <\/span>qutb<\/span><\/em>\u00ad \u2013 meaning \u201caxis, pole\u201d also appears to be related. Perhaps this has to do with a pole being straight like an arrow, or that poles were cut in construction. In the Middle Ages, the Arabic <\/span>qutb<\/span><\/em>\u00a0was borrowed into Hebrew to mean \u201caxis, pole.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So today the North Pole is the <\/span>kotev hatzfoni<\/span><\/em>\u00a0and a polar bear is <\/span>dov kotev<\/span><\/em>. Considering that polar bears are the largest meat eaters living on land, and are particularly skilled and vicious hunters \u2013 the association with \u201cdestruction\u201d applies to them as well. 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\u201cWhen Ephraim spoke piety, He was exalted in Israel; But he incurred guilt through Baal, And so he died. And now they go on sinning; They have made them molten images, Idols, by their skill, from their silver, Wholly the work of craftsmen. <\/span>Those who sacrifice men, are wont to kiss calves!<\/span>\u201d <\/b><\/em>(vv. 1-2).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The process described in these verses is clear \u2013 someone who begins with idol worship, forgetting the difference between truth and falsehood, between the Creator and His creations, will ultimately lose the ability to distinguish between man and animal. Such a person\u2019s moral instincts will lead them to prefer the calf to the human being.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The beginning of the 20<\/span>th<\/span> century brought with it a number of groups calling for greater sensitivity to animal rights, and one of their main activities was the fight against kosher ritual slaughter. They claimed that ritual slaughter was inhumane. That it frightened the animal. That it caused animals to suffer. It would have been possible, of course, to take this argument to its logical end and declare all living creatures as equal and forbid consumption of meat. But that would have removed Wienerschnitzel from tables across Europe, so the argument was a different one: Animals must be stunned before slaughter in order to save living creatures from suffering.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It may be worthwhile to make two points at this juncture. First, studies have shown that when properly performed, Jewish ritual slaughter actually causes less distress to animals than all other types of slaughter used in preparing animals for food (see Dr. Temple Grandin\u2019s <\/span>groundbreaking work on this issue<\/span><\/a>). Second, in \u201cenlightened\u201d Switzerland, kosher ritual slaughter is forbidden by law until this day.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is where we arrive at the verse in our chapter: <\/span>Those who sacrifice men, are wont to kiss calves!<\/span><\/em> In 1934, when the public battle cry against kosher ritual slaughter reached a fever pitch, Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, the preeminent rabbinic leader of the Orthodox Jewish community in Lithuania declared: <\/span>Those who sacrifice men, are wont to kiss calves!<\/span><\/em> Those people crying out against kosher ritual slaughter \u2013 ostensibly due to their sensitivity to animal rights, will have no problem sacrificing human beings, even as they kiss calves.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A few short years later, World War II broke out. The German people, who were very supportive of animal\u2019s rights groups, instituted laws requiring stunning before slaughter in all countries that they captured in the early years of the war. The only exception to this law was the slaughter of pigs, since the taste of pork was negatively affected by stunning.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Those who sacrifice men, are wont to kiss calves!<\/span><\/em> When there are no absolute values, skewed values are the result. Ultimately, human beings are deemed less important than animals.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Translated from\u00a0Rabbi Yehudah Eisenberg's\u00a0Hebrew original<\/a>\u00a0by hatanakh.com\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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13:14 \u201c\u2018From Sheol shall I ransom them, from death shall I redeem them? Where are your words, O Death, where your scourge, O Sheol? Regret is hidden from My eyes.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Some interpreters construe this as a positive declaration by God, that He will ransom Ephraim from death. But this makes no sense in light of the language of utter devastation deployed in the next verse, so it is best to understand it as a rhetorical question with the implied answer \u201cno.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Some critics revocalize <\/span>devareyka<\/span><\/em>, \u201cyour words,\u201d as <\/span>devrekha<\/span><\/em>, \u201cyour pestilence,\u201d yielding a neater parallelism with the second verset. As in verse 10, <\/span>\u2018ehi<\/span><\/em> at the beginning of each of the two versets here is emended to \u2018<\/em><\/span>ayeh<\/span><\/em>. If, as this translation assumes, the preceding line of poetry comprises two rhetorical questions, then the meaning of the two questions here is: where is your scourge, Death?--bring it to bear on these miscreants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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  1. First commandment, once again<\/em>. In verse 4, as in the last chapter, there is a declaration of faith that opens the Decalogue: \u201cI am the LORD your God.\u201d This reminds us that, ever since the founding of the Kingdom of Israel, this declaration, in a very problematic formulation, has been heard in the Israelite temples: \u201cSo the king (Jeroboam, founder of the Kingdom of Israel) took counsel and made two golden calves. He said to the people...This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!\u201d He set up one in Bethel and placed the other in Dan.\u201d (I Kings 12:28-29).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Too good is no good<\/em>. The idea that there is a danger when things go too well - a danger of overweening pride, or callousness, is familiar to us from the book of Deuteronomy (ch. 8), and Hosea expresses it as well: \u201cWhen they grazed, they were sated; When they were sated, they grew haughty; And so they forgot Me.\u201d (verse 6).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Careful - predators!<\/em> In verses 7-8 are the scariest beasts who wandered around the Samarian hills during biblical times: \u201clion\u2026 leopard\u2026 bear robbed of her young\u2026 beasts of the field.\u201d You wouldn\u2019t want to meet any of those on the road - not even as a metaphor.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. From friend to foe; and from protective shepherd, to threat<\/em>. Comparing God to a predatory animal doesn\u2019t just relate to His wrath or intent. It also symbolizes how God has switched sides. From a shepherd who used to watch his flock, and protect it from danger, to being the danger itself.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Told you so<\/em>. 273 chapters ago (I Sam. 8), the people demanded of Samuel a king. It went like this: \u201cappoint a king for us, to govern us!\u201d Hosea references this, and doesn\u2019t exactly express sympathy for the failure of the institution of kingship. He\u2019s more in the direction of \u201cI told you so!\u201d You made this bed - now you lie in it.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  6. That\u2019s how it sounds in the North country<\/em>. If there are words or even whole sentences that you didn\u2019t understand in this chapter, or in the previous ones, you\u2019re not alone. 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