Hosea 2:1
“Say to your brothers—Ammi, || And to your sisters—Ruhamah.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru-hamah.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:5And now, if you really listen to My voice, then you have kept My covenant, and have been a special treasure to Me more than all the peoples, for all the earth [is] Mine;
Jeremiah 32:38and they have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for God;
Ezekiel 11:20So that they walk in My statutes, || And keep My judgments, and have done them, || And they have been to Me for a people, || And I am to them for God.
Ezekiel 36:28And you have dwelt in the land that I have given to your fathers, || And you have been to Me for a people, || And I am to you for God.
Hosea 1:9and He says, “Call his name Lo-Ammi [(Not My People)], for you [are] not My people, and I am not for you;
Zechariah 13:9And I have brought the third into fire, || And refined them like a refining of silver, || And have tried them like a trying of gold, || It calls in My Name, and I answer it, || I have said, It [is] My people, || And it says, YHWH [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 →