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Hosea Chapter 2

Hosea
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Hosea

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In this chapter the prophet Hosea continues his message to the unfaithful Israelites, warning them that God will punish them for their disobedience and that they will be left with no hope. He urges them to return to the covenant and to trust in God's justice, emphasizing that the nation's sins are a cause of their suffering. The chapter ends with a call for repentance and a reminder that God's love remains even when people reject Him.

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(1) Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
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Hosea 1:9Hosea 1:10Hosea 1:11Exodus 19:5Exodus 19:6Jeremiah 31:33Jeremiah 32:38Ezekiel 11:20Ezekiel 36:28Ezekiel 37:27Zechariah 13:9Hosea 2:23

(2) Plead 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;
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Isaiah 58:1Jeremiah 2:2Jeremiah 19:3Ezekiel 20:4Ezekiel 23:45Matthew 23:37Matthew 23:38Matthew 23:39Acts 7:51Acts 7:52Acts 7:53II Corinthians 5:16

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Judges 6:31Luke 12:53Romans 7:2Jeremiah 2:9Ruth 2:11Ezekiel 23:3

(3) Lest 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.
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Hosea 2:10Isaiah 47:3Jeremiah 13:22Jeremiah 13:26Ezekiel 16:37Ezekiel 16:38Ezekiel 16:39Ezekiel 23:26Ezekiel 23:27Ezekiel 23:28Ezekiel 23:29Revelation 17:16

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Isaiah 50:2Deuteronomy 9:28

(4) And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
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Hosea 1:6Isaiah 27:11Jeremiah 13:14Jeremiah 16:5Ezekiel 8:18Ezekiel 9:10Zechariah 1:12Romans 9:18Romans 11:22James 2:13Hosea 1:2II Kings 9:22

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James 2:13

(5) For 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.
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Hosea 2:2Hosea 3:1Hosea 4:5Hosea 4:12Hosea 4:13Hosea 4:14Hosea 4:15Isaiah 1:21Isaiah 50:1Jeremiah 2:20Jeremiah 2:25Jeremiah 3:1

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Luke 12:53Leviticus 7:12Jeremiah 3:1Ezekiel 16:28Ezekiel 23:5

(6) Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
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Job 3:23Job 19:8Lamentations 3:7Lamentations 3:8Lamentations 3:9Luke 15:14Luke 15:15Luke 15:16Luke 19:43

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Ecclesiastes 8:17II Chronicles 26:6

(7) And 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.
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Hosea 5:13II Chronicles 28:20II Chronicles 28:21II Chronicles 28:22Isaiah 30:2Isaiah 30:3Isaiah 30:16Isaiah 31:1Isaiah 31:2Isaiah 31:3Jeremiah 2:28Jeremiah 2:36

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Romans 7:2Song of Solomon 6:13Ecclesiastes 8:17Jeremiah 3:1Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14

(8) For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
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Isaiah 1:3Habakkuk 1:16Acts 17:23Acts 17:24Acts 17:25Romans 1:28Hosea 2:5Hosea 10:1Judges 9:27Jeremiah 7:18Jeremiah 44:17Jeremiah 44:18

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Nehemiah 13:5Mark 2:22Deuteronomy 7:13Deuteronomy 11:14Deuteronomy 12:17Deuteronomy 14:23

(9) Therefore 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.
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Daniel 11:13Joel 2:14Malachi 1:4Malachi 3:18Hosea 2:3Isaiah 3:18Isaiah 3:19Isaiah 3:20Isaiah 3:21Isaiah 3:22Isaiah 3:23Isaiah 3:24

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Song of Solomon 6:13Mark 2:22Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Hosea 14:7

(10) And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
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Hosea 2:3Isaiah 3:17Jeremiah 13:22Jeremiah 13:26Ezekiel 16:36Ezekiel 23:29Luke 12:2Luke 12:3I Corinthians 4:5Hosea 5:13Hosea 5:14Hosea 13:7

(11) I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
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Hosea 9:1Hosea 9:2Hosea 9:3Hosea 9:4Hosea 9:5Isaiah 24:7Isaiah 24:8Isaiah 24:9Isaiah 24:10Isaiah 24:11Jeremiah 7:34Jeremiah 16:9

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II Chronicles 8:13II Chronicles 2:4Deuteronomy 16:16I Chronicles 23:31II Chronicles 31:3Nehemiah 10:33

(12) And 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.
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Hosea 2:5Hosea 9:1Psalms 80:12Isaiah 5:5Isaiah 7:23Isaiah 29:17Isaiah 32:13Isaiah 32:14Isaiah 32:15Jeremiah 26:18Micah 3:12

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Genesis 23:17Isaiah 56:9Daniel 4:23Psalms 105:33Exodus 9:25Exodus 10:15

(13) And 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.
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Hosea 9:7Hosea 9:9Exodus 32:34Jeremiah 23:2Hosea 9:10Hosea 13:1Judges 2:11Judges 2:12Judges 2:13Judges 3:7Judges 10:6I Kings 16:31

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II Kings 23:5Hosea 11:2

(14) Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
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Isaiah 30:18Jeremiah 16:14Song of Solomon 1:4John 6:44John 12:32Hosea 2:3Jeremiah 2:2Ezekiel 20:10Ezekiel 20:35Ezekiel 20:36Revelation 12:6Revelation 12:14

(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.
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Hosea 2:12Leviticus 26:40Leviticus 26:41Leviticus 26:42Leviticus 26:43Leviticus 26:44Leviticus 26:45Deuteronomy 30:3Deuteronomy 30:4Deuteronomy 30:5Nehemiah 1:8Nehemiah 1:9

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Psalms 47:6Romans 8:24Ezekiel 41:3Joshua 15:8Joshua 18:16I Corinthians 9:10

(16) And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
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Hosea 2:7Isaiah 54:5Jeremiah 3:14John 3:29II Corinthians 11:2Ephesians 5:25Ephesians 5:26Ephesians 5:27Revelation 19:7

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Deuteronomy 3:9Ruth 1:20I Kings 18:24Psalms 145:18Joel 2:32

(17) For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
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Exodus 23:13Joshua 23:7Psalms 16:4Zechariah 13:2Jeremiah 10:11

(18) And 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.
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Isaiah 2:11Isaiah 2:17Isaiah 26:1Zechariah 2:11Zechariah 14:4Zechariah 14:9Job 5:23Psalms 91:1Psalms 91:2Psalms 91:3Psalms 91:4Psalms 91:5

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Ezekiel 38:20Acts 10:12Acts 11:6Isaiah 18:6Genesis 2:5Genesis 23:17

(19) And 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.
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Isaiah 54:5Isaiah 62:3Isaiah 62:4Isaiah 62:5Jeremiah 3:14Jeremiah 3:15John 3:29Romans 7:4II Corinthians 11:2Ephesians 5:25Ephesians 5:26Ephesians 5:27

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Psalms 99:4Jeremiah 9:24Jeremiah 33:15Romans 9:30Romans 10:3

(20) I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
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Jeremiah 9:24Jeremiah 24:7Jeremiah 31:33Jeremiah 31:34Ezekiel 38:23Matthew 11:27Luke 10:22John 8:55John 17:3II Corinthians 4:6Philippians 3:8Colossians 1:10

(21) And 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;
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Isaiah 65:24Zechariah 8:12Zechariah 13:9Matthew 6:33Romans 8:32I Corinthians 3:21I Corinthians 3:22I Corinthians 3:23

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Psalms 148:4

(22) And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
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Hosea 1:4Hosea 1:11

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Mark 2:22Deuteronomy 7:13Deuteronomy 11:14Deuteronomy 12:17Deuteronomy 14:23Deuteronomy 18:4

(23) And 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.
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Psalms 72:16Jeremiah 31:27Zechariah 10:9Acts 8:1Acts 8:2Acts 8:3Acts 8:4James 1:1I Peter 1:1I Peter 1:2Hosea 1:6Romans 11:30

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James 2:13I Peter 2:10Exodus 25:20Exodus 33:19Exodus 37:9Leviticus 16:2

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