Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
2 But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.
3 It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.
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Compare
- BSB
- When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
- KJV
- When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
- WEB
- “When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
- ASV
- When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
- DARBY
- When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
- BLB
- When Israel [was] a child, I loved him; and out of Egypt I called My son.
- ÅB
- Da Israel var ung, hadde jeg ham kjær, og fra Egypt kalte jeg min sønn.
- OTB
- Da Israel var ung, elsket jeg ham,
og fra Egypt kalte jeg min sønn. - B1930
- Da Israel var ung, hadde jeg ham kjær, og fra Egypten kalte jeg min sønn.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 2:15
where he stayed until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”
Read in contextExodus 4:22
Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,
Read in contextHosea 13:4
Yet I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, for there is no Savior besides Me.
Read in contextHosea 2:15
There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
Read in contextJeremiah 2:2
“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
Read in contextMalachi 1:2
“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,
Read in contextHosea 12:13
But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
Read in contextEzekiel 16:6
Then I passed by and saw you wallowing in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, ‘Live!’ There I said to you, ‘Live!’
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