Hosea 2:1
“On that day you will call your brothers Ammi, and you will call your sisters Ruhamah.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru-hamah.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:5Now if you really obey what I say and keep the agreement with me, then out of all the nations you will be a special people that belong to me. While the whole world is mine,
Jeremiah 32:38They will be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 11:20This way they can follow my rules, keep my regulations, and do what I say. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 36:28Then you will live in the country I gave to your forefathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God.
Hosea 1:9The Lord told Hosea, “Call him Lo-ammi, because you are not my people and I am not your God.
Zechariah 13:9I will place this one third in the fire, and I will refine them as silver is refined, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on me for help, and I will answer them. I will say, “These 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 →