Hosea 2:1

Yet the number of the Bnei Yisroel shall be as the sand of the yam (sea), which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are lo ammi (not My people), there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the Bnei El Chai.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru-hamah.

In Context

2Then shall the Bnei Yehudah and the Bnei Yisroel be gathered together, and appoint for them Rosh Echad, + 2:2 Moshiach; see Isa 11; Hos 3:5 and they shall come up out of ha'aretz; for gadol shall be the Yom Yizre'el (Day of Jezreel). + 2:2 G-d will sow

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Cross References

Exodus 19:5Now therefore, if ye will obey My voice very carefully, and be shomer over My brit, then ye shall be a segullah (treasured possession) unto Me above all people; for kol ha'aretz is Mine;

Jeremiah 32:38And they shall be My people, and I will be their Elohim;

Ezekiel 11:20That they may walk in My chukkot, and be shomer over Mine mishpatim, and do them; and they shall be My people, and I will be their Elohim.

Ezekiel 36:28And ye shall dwell in ha'aretz that I gave to avoteichem; and ye shall be My people, and I will be your Elohim.

Hosea 1:9Then said G-d, Call shmo (his name) Lo-ammi; for ye are lo ammi (not My people), and to you (pl) not eh'h'yeh (I AM: which is ALEFH HEH YOD HEH 1 common sg form of YOD HEH VAV HEH — HASHEM; i.e., to you I am not Hashem).

Zechariah 13:9And I will bring the one-third through the eish, 1 and will refine them as kesef is refined, 1 and will test them as zahav is tested; 1 they shall call biShmi (on My Name), and I will hear them; 1 I will say: This is My people; 1 and they shall say: Hashem is Elohai.

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 →

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