Hosea 2:1

Say to your brothers, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.

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In The King James Version

Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru-hamah.

In Context

2Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

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Cross References

Exodus 19:5If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine:

Jeremiah 32:38And they will be my people, and I will be their God:

Ezekiel 11:20So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

Ezekiel 36:28So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.

Hosea 1:9And the Lord said, Give him the name Lo-ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be your God.

Zechariah 13:9And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 2:1

The scope of this chapter seems to be much the same with that of the foregoing chapter, and to point at the same events, and the causes of them. As there, so here, I. God, by the prophet, discovers sin to them, and charges it home upon them, the sin of their idolatry, their spiritual whoredom, their serving idols and forgetting God and their obligations to him, ver. 1, 2 , 5 , 8 . II. He threatens to take away from them that plenty of all good things with which they had served their idols, and to abandon them to… Read the whole commentary →

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