Hosea 13:10
New International Version
Where is your king, that he may save you? Where are your rulers in all your towns, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’?

New Living Translation
Now where is your king? Let him save you! Where are all the leaders of the land, the king and the officials you demanded of me?

English Standard Version
Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities? Where are all your rulers— those of whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

Berean Standard Bible
Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

King James Bible
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?

New King James Version
I will be your King; Where is any other, That he may save you in all your cities? And your judges to whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’?

New American Standard Bible
Where then is your king, That he might save you in all your cities; And your judges, to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

NASB 1995
Where now is your king That he may save you in all your cities, And your judges of whom you requested, “Give me a king and princes “?

NASB 1977
Where now is your king That he may save you in all your cities, And your judges of whom you requested, “Give me a king and princes”?

Legacy Standard Bible
Where now is your king, That he may save you in all your cities, And your judges of whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

Amplified Bible
Where now is your king That he may save you [when you are attacked] in all your cities? And your judges of whom you asked, “Give me a king and princes”?

Christian Standard Bible
Where now is your king, that he may save you in all your cities, and the rulers you demanded, saying, “Give me a king and leaders”?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Where now is your king, that he may save you in all your cities, and the rulers you demanded, saying,” Give me a king and leaders"?

American Standard Version
Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges, of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Where is, therefore, your King? Let him save you and all your cities, and your Judge whom you asked of me. And you said: ”Give me a King and a Ruler!”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Where is this thy king? let him even save thee in all thy cities: let him judge thee, of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and a prince.

Contemporary English Version
You wanted a king and rulers. Where is your king now? What cities have rulers?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Where is thy king? now especially let him save thee in all thy cities: and thy judges, of whom thou saidst: Q Give me kings and princes.

English Revised Version
Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges, of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Where, now, is your king, the one who is supposed to save you? Where in all your cities are your judges? You said, 'Give us kings and officials!'

Good News Translation
You asked for a king and for leaders, but how can they save the nation?

International Standard Version
Now where is your king? Will he save you in all your cities? And where are your judges, about whom you demanded, 'Give me a king and officials!'?

JPS Tanakh 1917
Ho, now, thy king, That he may save thee in all thy cities! And thy judges, of whom thou saidst: 'Give me a king and princes!'

Literal Standard Version
Where [is] your king now—And he saves you in all your cities? And your judges of whom you said, | Give a king and heads to me?

Majority Standard Bible
Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

New American Bible
Where now is your king, that he may rescue you? And all your princes, that they may defend you? Of whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

NET Bible
Where then is your king, that he may save you in all your cities? Where are your rulers for whom you asked, saying, "Give me a king and princes"?

New Revised Standard Version
Where now is your king, that he may save you? Where in all your cities are your rulers, of whom you said, “Give me a king and rulers”?

New Heart English Bible
Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, 'Give me a king and princes?'

Webster's Bible Translation
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?

World English Bible
Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’?

Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast destroyed thyself, O Israel, But in Me is thy help, Where is thy king now -- And he doth save thee in all thy cities? And thy judges of whom thou didst say, 'Give to me a king and heads?'

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Context
God's Mercy
9You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me—against your helper. 10Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”? 11So in My anger I gave you a king, and in My wrath I took him away.…

Cross References
1 Samuel 8:5
"Look," they said, "you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations."

1 Samuel 8:6
But when they said, "Give us a king to judge us," their demand was displeasing in the sight of Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD.

2 Kings 17:4
But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested Hoshea and put him in prison.

Hosea 3:4
For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.

Hosea 7:7
All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.

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.


Treasury of Scripture

I will be your king: where is any other that may save you in all your cities? and your judges of whom you said, Give me a king and princes?

I will be thy king.

2 Kings 17:4
And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

Psalm 10:16
The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

Psalm 44:4
Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

Psalm 47:6,7
Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises…

where.

Hosea 13:4
Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.

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?

Deuteronomy 32:37-39
And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, …

thy judges.

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.

Judges 2:16-18
Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them…

1 Samuel 8:5,6,19,20
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…

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1. Ephraim's glory vanishes.
4. God's anger.
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(10) The rendering should be, Where, pray, is thy king, that he may save thee? &c. The original demand for a king who should be a visible token to Israel of protection against their surrounding foes was adverse to the true spirit of the kingdom of God upon earth, and, though granted, proved to the united kingdom, and afterwards to the kingdom of Israel, an age-long curse. Probably the special reference here is to the latter--the erection of the Ten Tribes into a separate monarchy.

Verses 10-16. - The concluding verse is at once a conclusion and commencement - an inference from what preceded, and the beginning of a second line of proof showing that, while their ruin was by themselves, their restoration would be by God. When the kings and princes whom they had sinfully sought, and who had been given to them in anger would fail, God himself would be their King, as is stated in vers. 10 and 11. Further, when in consequence of their iniquities treasured up, their sorrows and sufferings would be extreme, as stated in vers. 12 and 13, yet they would be raised up as out of their graves, as promised in ver. 14. Verses 10, 11. - Israel had shown contempt for Jehovah by putting confidence in kings of their own choice, yet these kings could not afford them help, whence the questions of ver. 10. The usual rendering is at fault. I will be thy King. This should rather be, Where now is thy king? though ehi may be either verb or adverb. Where is any other that may says thee in all thy cities? Better take both clauses together and in connection, thus: Where, now, is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities?

(1) The word ehi we take, with Ewald, to be a dialectic variation for אֵיַּה, or shortened form אֵי, and this is strengthened by אֵפוא, equivalent to the Greek ποτε or Latin tandem, for sake of emphasis. The purpose for which the Israelites had asked a king was that he might "judge them and go out before them to fight their battles" (1 Samuel 8:20). The question, then, does not indicate the want of a king, or the prevalence of a state of anarchy, but that a crisis had come when such a king as they had requested should exhibit his prowess and display his power. It is as though the prophet asked, or rather God by his servant," Where is now the king that can defend the besieged cities, or deliver the attacked fortresses; and defeat the Assyrian foeman who is now threatening both? Or where are the judges (shophetim), or the princes (sarim), who constitute his cabinet or royal counselors sharing in the counsels of state, and administering the affairs of the kingdom under him?" The answer implied is that those visible helps, on which Israel had so confidently calculated, turned out valueless; the kingly constitution on which they had set their heart proved a failure, as far as help and deliverance were concerned.

(2) Kimchi and others take אהי as first person future of the verb היה; thus: "I shall be established for ever, but where is thy king? Whereas thou didst reject my kingdom, and demanded a king who should save you; and it should be he that would save you in all your cities against which the enemies came."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Where
אֱהִ֤י (’ĕ·hî)
Interjection
Strong's 165: Where?

is your king
מַלְכְּךָ֙ (mal·kə·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

now
אֵפ֔וֹא (’ê·p̄ō·w)
Conjunction
Strong's 645: Here, now, then

to save you
וְיוֹשִֽׁיעֲךָ֖ (wə·yō·wō·šî·‘ă·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3467: To be open, wide, free, to be safe, to free, succor

in all
בְּכָל־ (bə·ḵāl)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

your cities,
עָרֶ֑יךָ (‘ā·re·ḵā)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5892: Excitement

and the rulers
וְשֹׁ֣פְטֶ֔יךָ (wə·šō·p̄ə·ṭe·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 8199: To judge, pronounce sentence, to vindicate, punish, to govern, to litigate

to whom
אֲשֶׁ֣ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

you said,
אָמַ֔רְתָּ (’ā·mar·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“Give
תְּנָה־ (tə·nāh-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

me
לִּ֖י (lî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew

a king
מֶ֥לֶךְ (me·leḵ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

and princes”?
וְשָׂרִֽים׃ (wə·śā·rîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8269: Chieftain, chief, ruler, official, captain, prince


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