Hosea 2:1
“Say to your brothers, ‘You are my people,’ and to your sister, ‘You have obtained mercy.’
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru-hamah.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:5If, therefore, you will hear my voice, and you will keep my covenant, you will be to me a particular possession out of all people. For all the earth is mine.
Jeremiah 32:38And they will be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 11:20So may they may walk in my precepts, and observe my judgments, and accomplish them. And so may they be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 36:28And you shall live in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Hosea 1:9And he said: “Call his name, Not My People, for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
Zechariah 13:9And I will lead the third part through fire, and I will burn them just as silver is burned, and I will test them just as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will heed them. I will say, “You are 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 →