Hosea 2:20

I will take you for my wife in faithfulness, and you will know the Lord.

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In The King James Version

I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.

In Context

19I will take you for my wife forever, I will take you for my wife in righteousness, in justice, in kindness, and in mercy.

21On that day I will answer – declares the Lord, I will answer the empty skies, and they will answer the dry earth.

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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 →

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