Hosea 2:1

Say vnto your brethren, Ammi, and to your sisters, Ruhamah,

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Plead with your mother: plead with her: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: but let her take away her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries from betweene her breasts.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:5Now therefore if ye wil heare my voyce in deede, and keepe my couenant, then ye shalbe my chiefe treasure aboue all people, though all the earth be mine.

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

Ezekiel 11:20That they may walke in my statutes, and keepe my iudgements, and execute them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 36:28And ye shall dwell in the land, that I gaue to your fathers, and ye shalbe my people, and I will be your God.

Hosea 1:9Then saide God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for yee are not my people: therefore will I not be yours.

Zechariah 13:9And I will bring that third part thorowe the fire, and will fine them as the siluer is fined, and will trye them as golde is tryed: they shall call on my Name, and I will heare them: I will say, It 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 →

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