Hosea 2:16
“It will be in that day—this is Yahweh's declaration— 1 that you will call me, 'My husband,' 1 and you will no longer call me, 'My Baal.' 1
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Judges 19:3Then her husband got up and went after her in order to persuade her to come back. His servant was with him, and a pair of donkeys. She brought him into her father's house. When the girl's father saw him, he was glad.
Isaiah 40:2“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem; and proclaim to her 1 that her warfare has ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, 1 that she has received double from Yahweh's hand for all her sins.” 1
Jeremiah 3:14Return, faithless people!—this is Yawheh's declaration—I am your husband! 1 I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion!
Hosea 2:7She will pursue her lovers, 1 but she will not overtake them. 1 She will seek them, 1 but she will not find them. 1 Then she will say, 1 “I will return to my first husband, 1 for it was better for me then than it is now.” 1
2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous about you. I have a godly jealousy for you, since I promised you in marriage to one husband. I promised to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Revelation 19:7Let us rejoice and be very happy 2 and give him the glory 1 because the wedding celebration of the Lamb has come, 2 and his bride has made herself ready. 1
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 →