Hosea 2:1
(2:3) Call ye your brothers, 'Ammi [[my people]]; and your sisters, Ruchamah [[That hath obtained mercy]].
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru-hamah.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:5Now therefore, if you will truly obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then shall ye be unto me a peculiar treasure above all nations; for all the earth is mine:
Jeremiah 32:38And they shall be unto me for a people, and I will be unto them for a God:
Ezekiel 11:20In order that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them; and they shall be unto me for a people, and I will indeed be unto them for a God.
Ezekiel 36:28And ye shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be unto me for a people, and I truly will be unto you as a God.
Hosea 1:9Then said he, Call his name Lo-'ammi [[Not my people]]; for ye are not my people, and I will indeed not be unto you [a God].
Zechariah 13:9And I will bring the third part into the fire, and I will refine them as one refineth silver, and will probe them as gold is probed: they will call on my name, and I will answer their prayer; I will say, They arc 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 →