Hosea 2:1
Yet the number of the children of Israel was as the sand of the sea, which shall not be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, even they shall be called the sons of the living God.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 ye will indeed hear my voice, and keep my covenant, ye shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is mine.
Jeremiah 32:38He has forsaken his lair, as a lion: for their land is become desolate before the great sword.
Ezekiel 11:20that they may walk in my commandments, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.
Ezekiel 36:28And ye shall dwell upon the land which I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.
Hosea 1:9And he said, Call his name, Not my people: for ye are not my people, and I am not your God.
Zechariah 13:9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will try them as silver is tried, and I will prove them as gold is proved: they shall call upon my name, and I will hear them, and say, This is my people: and they shall 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 →