Hosea 2:20
And I will espouse thee to me in faith: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 26:5The threshing of your harvest shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land without fear.
Isaiah 2:4And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they be exercised any more to war.
Jeremiah 24:7And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: because they shall return to me with their whole heart.
Jeremiah 31:33Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt: the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over them, saith the Lord.
Ezekiel 34:25And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they that dwell in the wilderness shall sleep secure in the forests.
Ezekiel 38:23And I will be magnified, and I will be sanctified: and I will be known in the eyes of many nations: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 2:15-23
Promises of Mercy. ( b. c. 764.) 14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. 15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. 16 And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord , that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. 17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her… Read the whole commentary →