Hosea 11:1

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“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.”

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BSBPD

“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Because Israel <FI>is<Fi> a youth, and I love him, Out of Egypt I have called for My Son.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Hosea 11:1 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 4:22Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,
  2. Exodus 19:4‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.
  3. Deuteronomy 7:7The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
  4. Deuteronomy 33:3Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—
  5. Isaiah 43:4Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nations in place of your life.
  6. Jeremiah 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.
  7. Ezekiel 16:6Then 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!’
  8. Ezekiel 16:22And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.
  9. Hosea 2:15There 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.
  10. Hosea 12:9But I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt. I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.
  11. Hosea 12:13But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
  12. Hosea 13:4Yet 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.
  13. Malachi 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,
  14. Matthew 2:15where he stayed until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”

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