Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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
And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
Read in contextExodus 4:22
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
Read in contextHosea 13:4
Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.
Read in contextHosea 2:15
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.
Read in contextJeremiah 2:2
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Read in contextMalachi 1:2
I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
Read in contextHosea 12:13
And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
Read in contextEzekiel 16:6
And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
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