Hosea 2:1

Say to your brothers, 'My people!' 1 and to your sisters, 'You have been shown compassion.'” 1

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Bring a lawsuit against your mother, bring a lawsuit, 2 for she is not my wife, 2 and neither am I her husband. 1 Let her put away her prostitution from before herself, 1 and her acts of adultery from between her breasts. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 19:5Now then, if you obediently listen to my voice and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.

Jeremiah 32:38Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 11:20so that they will walk in my statutes, they will carry out my decrees and do them. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 36:28Then you will inhabit the land that I gave to your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God.

Hosea 1:9Then Yahweh said, 1 “Call his name Lo-Ammi, 1 for you are not my people, 1 and I am not your God. 1

Zechariah 13:9I will bring that third through the fire 1 and refine them as silver is refined; 1 I will test them as gold is tested. 1 They will call on my name, 1 and I will answer them and say, 1 'This is my people!' 1 and they will say, 'Yahweh 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 →

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