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Hosea 2

King James Version · 23 verses · 705 cross-references linking it to 295 other chapters

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  1. 1Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru–hamah.15 cross-references: 1 Peter 2:10, Hosea 2:23, Ezekiel 11:20, 2 Corinthians 4:1, 1 Timothy 1:13
  2. 2Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;36 cross-references: Isaiah 50:1, Ezekiel 23:45, Jeremiah 3:13, Ezekiel 16:25, Jeremiah 3:1
  3. 3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.44 cross-references: Ezekiel 16:22, Isaiah 32:13–14, Jeremiah 13:22, Amos 8:11–13, Ezekiel 19:13
  4. 4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.18 cross-references: Jeremiah 13:14, Ezekiel 8:18, Hosea 1:2, Hosea 1:6, Romans 11:22
  5. 5For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.45 cross-references: Jeremiah 44:17–18, Isaiah 1:21, Hosea 2:8, Hosea 3:1, Hosea 2:12–13
  6. 6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.19 cross-references: Job 19:8, Lamentations 3:7–9, Job 3:23, Luke 19:43, Luke 15:14–16
  7. 7And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.39 cross-references: Jeremiah 2:2, Hosea 5:13, Luke 15:17–20, Hosea 13:6, Ezekiel 23:4
  8. 8For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.48 cross-references: Isaiah 1:3, Hosea 8:4, Hosea 13:2, Hosea 4:11, Ezekiel 16:16–19
  9. 9Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.25 cross-references: Haggai 1:6–11, Malachi 1:4, Malachi 3:18, Hosea 2:3, Ezekiel 16:39
  10. 10And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.27 cross-references: Ezekiel 23:29, Hosea 5:13–14, Jeremiah 13:22, Jeremiah 13:26, Luke 12:2–3
  11. 11I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.26 cross-references: Isaiah 1:13–14, Amos 5:21, Jeremiah 7:34, Amos 8:5, Jeremiah 16:9
  12. 12And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.19 cross-references: Isaiah 7:23, Isaiah 5:5, Hosea 13:8, Hosea 2:5, Micah 3:12
  13. 13And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord.62 cross-references: Judges 3:7, Hosea 13:6, Hosea 13:1, Hosea 11:2, Jeremiah 7:9
  14. 14Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.49 cross-references: Isaiah 40:1–2, Ezekiel 20:35–36, Isaiah 30:18, Revelation 12:6, Genesis 34:3
  15. 15And 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.41 cross-references: Ezekiel 28:26, Jeremiah 2:2, Hosea 11:1, Joshua 7:26, Ezekiel 16:22
  16. 16And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.10 cross-references: Isaiah 54:5, Hosea 2:7, Jeremiah 3:14, Revelation 19:7, John 3:29
  17. 17For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.13 cross-references: Exodus 23:13, Psalms 16:4, Joshua 23:7, Zechariah 13:2, Jeremiah 10:11
  18. 18And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.51 cross-references: Ezekiel 34:25, Ezekiel 39:9–10, Isaiah 11:6–9, Jeremiah 23:6, Isaiah 2:4
  19. 19And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.40 cross-references: 2 Corinthians 11:2, Revelation 21:2, Isaiah 54:14, Revelation 19:7–9, Ezekiel 37:25–28
  20. 20I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.25 cross-references: John 17:3, 1 John 5:20, 1 John 4:6, Jeremiah 24:7, Hosea 2:19
  21. 21And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;19 cross-references: Zechariah 8:12, Matthew 6:33, Isaiah 65:24, Romans 8:32, Isaiah 55:10
  22. 22And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.9 cross-references: Hosea 1:4, Joel 2:19, Hosea 1:11, Jeremiah 31:12
  23. 23And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.57 cross-references: Romans 9:25–26, 1 Peter 2:9–10, Zechariah 13:9, Hosea 1:9–10, Romans 3:29

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God, Baal, Jezreel

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Valley of Achor, Egypt, Jezreel